Leaf collection begins on Monday, Nov. 7.

Get out your rakes. It’s leaf collecting season.

In other news, you’re one season closer to death.

And goes until January 3.

If you live in a part of the District where street-sweepers force you to engage in a weekly ballet of car-moving before you head off to work, you’ll be able to rest easy as of next week — the city’s street-sweeping program goes into hibernation on October 31.

The D.C. Emergency Management Agency reports (via the AlertDC text service) that the city will pre-treat roads in advance of a storm expected early on the morning of New Year’s Eve — a storm that will close out the last day of 2009 with an awful wintery mix. District Department of Transportation and Department of Public Works will suspend leaf-collection services on Thursday so that the crews can mount plows and salt spreaders on the…

There’s a lot of leaves on our city sidewalks this week. A lot. It seems like D.C.’s leaves really started changing and falling only last week, and now this week, there’s a blanket of them. You can (and should!) help get the area directly in front of your house, including your yard and the sidewalk, free of leaves by following these instructions from the Department of Public Works. Rake leaves into a pile into…