Leaf-blower

This leaf-blower is noisy.

Armed with rakes, paint brushes and leaf-blowers, more than 100 Boise State University students helped clean up several locations around the city Saturday.

As group members come quietly up the stairs to the loft, I am still lighting the candles and turning on the twinkling lights that let our neighbors know it’s time to stop mowing, weed-whacking, and running their leaf-blowers.

There was a small pool; Fenerty had used a leaf-blower to inflate it because he didn’t have the wind in his lungs to do it himself.