I had a couple things on my list for yesterday that I could not, would not go without doing. I was going to replace the burned out light bulbs in my porch light, and I was going to pick up the trash in my yard.
The light bulbs were easy (sort of). I did have to get a ladder. But the trash took a while. I don’t understand why there is so much more trash in winter than there is in summer. Is it all dropped by kids on their way to school? I hope not, what with all the cigarettes and alcohol containers. But seriously, what the heck? I filled a whole black trash bag with trash. I feel weird even just throwing an apple into a ditch. I can’t even imagine throwing trash on the ground in someone’s yard.
I take comfort in the fact that at least some of the trash looks accidental. I mean, I don’t imagine someone would throw away ten dollars. And I wouldn’t think someone would throw away a sticky-note about hair. Otherwise, they might forget.
After trash-picking, I was on a roll. When I came back inside, I cut off all the dead branches from my calamondin orange tree. There were new leaves coming out, so it’s not dead. I have mixed feelings. I’m now caring for a sickly plant that hasn’t flowered in years. Is there a point at which it just becomes silly? Anyway, here are the before and after pictures:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Have you ever tried a bonsai tree? I think you’d be very good at that.
Wow! That is a lot of trash on the ground in that ‘hair’ note shot. Was that the worst place or does it all look like that? Your anger is completely understandable.
I have to think that the lack of growing things contributes to the trash in your yard. When stuff blows around in the summer it get caught by the foliage in other people’s yards, but theirs is all dead and gone now but yours is chock-full even though it is winter. Is that plausible?
The hair note picture is a picture of the inside of the trash bag. There weren’t any places where the trash was that dense. Instead, it was scattered as thinly and evenly as it could be.
My theory on the trash (I’ve given it some serious thought since the cleaning of the pond post) is that there are fewer people who pick it up in the Winter.
I think it’s time to rerun this: On TV, at schools, on your front lawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
I could certainly do with finding ten dollars.