did your parents rake leaves onto bed sheets?

i freaking hated fall as a kid because we had 100 scrub oaks on our property and i swear the # of trees doubled each year. My parents would wake my arse up and stick a rake in my hand and lay out a sheets in the yard. my brother and i weren't allowed to ride bikes with our friends or anything else until we had raked leaves onto sheets, pulled the corners to the middle and carry that across our one acre yard like freaking Santa Claus to the designated burn pile in the ditch and CAREFULLY drop the load while my dad 'tended the fire' with his rake instead of helping us.

Rinse, later repeat the next saturday. all day until you could see the grass again.

never occurred to me at the time but those sheets ended up back on our beds a week later its not like we had 'special' sheets for yardwork.

also the idea of landscapers? didn't exist in the 70s. you might have some industrious baw who drug his parent's pushmower around the neighborhood knocking on doors to try & make $20 mowing their lawn but that was about it.