Our winter weather is short lived.
By this evening, back to the usual dreary yuk of rain.
We never got the freezing rain predicted, in the night. The slush left from yesterday morning froze overnight and is currently melting. Roads just wet and a bit slushy in spots this morning here.
The worst result of the weather for me is that the garbage company cancelled pickup yesterday. Yesterday was my garbage day. The cart sits full at the curb and will not be picked up til next Thursday, leaving me in a big messy bind, with nowhere to dump dirty cat litter. I called the garbage company over it and they said next week I could put bags out equal to my cart size, but that isn't really doable with cat litter. Where to store the bags, hard to get it into large bags, don't even have a lot of larger size plastic bags.
Since the stores quit providing plastic bags, I'm hard put to find one around the house. I used to reuse the grocery plastic bags specifically for dirty cat litter, but I just don't have any now. I save and use bags groceries come in, like bread loaves, but since using gleaners for most of my food I no longer get much in plastic bags of any sort. It's all probably quite a good thing, to keep the bags out of the landfill. They last forever and a day.
I'll probably have to make a dump run. I don't need more work around here, have enough already. I'll try to get the garbage company to reduce my bill by the amount of the dump bill. Fat chance. Ha! Like these big huge multi state utility companies give a rip. But if they're broken down into single people, I'm sure they would see the fairness in that.
I went out early and got a few ice photos.
It is quite ugly and messy out now, with all the melting slush. My neighbor leaves today for about two weeks of vacationing, most of that time on a cruise out of Florida. She said she'd take photos of sunny days and send them to me but I kind of hope she doesn't.
Beautiful photos of the icicles! Sorry to hear about your trash situation. What a hassle.
ReplyDeleteYup, a hassle I don't really need at this time.
DeleteThey haven't banned plastic grocery bags yet here, but they do charge for them. We used them almost exclusively for used cat litter and had friends save them for us who lived in other places with no bag charge or ban. That worked well for us. I'm not sure what you can do, but make a dump trip. I hope it's not too expensive.
ReplyDeleteIts very expensive, shocked me how expensive.
DeleteThe great ice photos really convince me that it is cold.
ReplyDeleteYes, but its warmed up some by now.
DeleteCould you put your garbage in the neighbor's cans? Since she'll be gone. Or maybe find a local store and "borrow" their dumpster? Just a couple thoughts.
ReplyDeleteShe's gone but her roommate, the woman hating truck driver, isn't. I don't go near that place if he's home. I only have one other neighbor who speaks to me and she's currently fighting cancer. I will figure something out, have no choice.
DeleteI use any type of plastic bag for used cat litter....bread, cereal, produce. Although with your crew of cats you would go through many more than I would with one.
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