I finished the upper yard and had enough time to rake the path through the woods. There were so many downed branches and spruce cones underfoot that it was like having roller skates on, trying to get through to the street. It's ever so much tidier now that I'm done, and it makes me think that if the weather holds, I'd like to rake the rest of the woods as well. Right now, the winter's blowdown is so heavy that half the ferns aren't likely to come up.
