And the leaves will never end!!!  This week, while I'm on vacation and before it rains, I'm on a mission to get the majority of the leaves out of the yard.  Mainly because it is sooooo much easier to move them before the get wet!  I got the koi pond corner cleaned out - here's what the pond looked like after I blew the leaves out from behind it:

And after:

We had to vacuum out the leaves that had fallen to the bottom of the pond - and Alex was a huge help.  Koori, on the other hand, not so much....