We borrow a splitter. I actually find splitting wood to be a "fun" though tiring chore. It's a "good tired" when we can look at the dwindling "to be split pile" and then look at the stacked "ready to burn" piles. I drove through a neighboring "city" today, and noted that there were paper leaf bags piled up in a lot of residential neighborhoods. I had my MIL call her town office, and we found out that the town does not start pick up until Monday. Hopefully, I can score a couple truck loads of leaves between now and then.