Our original plan was to go shake this tree in our backyard and form a mess out of the leaves that fell. But when we went out there we saw that Mother Nature had tried to sabotage us our mission by already creating a mess. She didn't do a very good job though as the tree still had a done of leaves on it, so Metsuki and I literally attacked it with bare hands, feet and our trusted rake.

Metsuki and I can only reach so far though, and when we "reached" our height limit, we started climbing, bringing Mister Rake as well.

My dog watched us the entire time with complete skepticism; he's an old fart though. My dad came out at one point as well when we were in the tree using Mister Rake to get the leaves down. I couldn't hear what he was saying though, Metric pwns him.

Once we had again reached our limit, I set to gathering my scattered mess. Different countries formed themselves only to be taken over and eaten by Mister Rake, when we got tired of them staring at us.

Oddly enough Mister Rake ended back up in the tree. Due to Metsuki getting over excited and throwing him at one of the branches hoping to get more leaves. So back up the tree we climbed. After we rescued him we set about forming one giant pile. This only led to us forming the "yellow leaf road" to my red jacket.

With only one huge pile remaining, Metsuki and I decided to explore our contained mess. We brought out Miss Shovel and used her to try and dig to the core of the leaf pile. We didn't jump in it though, only because we decided wading through it would be slightly more original and entertaining, and it was.
However with our mess created and explored, we reached the final step in our mission, cleaning it up. But like most messes in our life, we take the easy road and just shove it off into the corner. Or in this place my dad's garden.