Raking the Leaves

So today I had to rake my whole frontyard and there were plenty of leaves to deal with thanks to Sandy, but doing the mindnumbing work that wastes my Saturday, I pondered the physics of the job. While raking, I make an arching swing with the rake, hitting the leaves at the lowest point of my swing, and continuing the swing, putting the rake head sort of into a form of uniform circular motion. While in the motion, I pick up the leaves and they join the rake head on its path until they fall off, and as we all know about UCM, once something comes off it will fly on a tangential path, which is what makes the leaves fly out foreward and makes raking the yard possible. However, while the leaves are in the air because of their small weight and large surface area the retardent forces slows them down a lot and often pushes them back into the area where I had already raked, but that's physics.