Drabble by Kevin Fagan for October 03, 2024

A fake tree appeared on The Simpsons some years back. I think it was the episode where Lisa went to college, and met her English boyfriend.

Where I live I get some leaves but mostly spanish moss. I got a lot blown off the trees last weekend. I have a big pile of it and I love to burn it!

That trashcan looks really slender for its height, and the rake is a childs rake, missing lots of tines. Also, they have no gutter on the house. On the flip side, he’s doing it with no leaves on the ground.

Fake plastic trees?

And fake children too.

There’s your million dollar idea Norman!

Yesterday morning, I blew the acorns, leaves and pine cones out into the street for the sweeper. By the evening dog walk, it was covered again.

We gave up raking 20 years ago. Let the leaves decompose and enrich the soil.

The leaves are beginning to turn here, but the only trees we have that turn a pleasant color are the honey locusts.

Some entrepreneur should buy used Christmas trees, doll them up, and sell them for low maintenance landscaping.

There would be fallout.

The squirrels would not agree.

They are all over southern California. They hide their cell phone towers with them. Norm could make some money with one in his yard.

Not fake leaves. Fake TREES.

I’ve only seen fake grass lawns in desert cities, like Phoenix. And I approve – real lawns there consume far too much water. If I lived there, I’d probably want to use native desert plant life for my yard, but for those who want a lawn in the desert, fake is definitely the way to go.

Of course, the Drabbles don’t live in the desert, so I have no clue why anybody there would want a fake lawn.

Earn your keep, man-child….