WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED AT BROWN & COLE!

 

I walk Henry & Stella around the block twice a day, and I pick up new trash.  I don't usually take a bag, because there's only a couple of pieces.  It's so easy to pick up new trash when I walk the dogs, if I do it every day.

Yesterday, there was a lot!  The dogs actually stop when they see a piece of trash.  They know I'm going to pick it up now.

Tonight, I went back to the area I was at yesterday, but south of Lover's Lane.  I parked east of Cole, a neighborhood that is sparkling clean!  How can there be so much trash one street over?  

I saw a field yesterday at Brown & Cole that had a huge mess to clean up, another dump site.  I didn't plan on picking it all up, just the trash six feet from the sidewalk.

But when I got there, it was all cleaned up!  What happened?  I saw a big construction bag, like the ones I use.  Was I losing my mind?  Did I already clean this area and not remember?

I saw some people across the street, and I yelled over, "Who cleaned this up?"  A man yelled back, "My wife did that!  She couldn't stand it anymore!"  Can you believe that?

So I walked across the street.  They were lovely.  She cleaned all that with no trash grabber and no gloves!  Ick!!!  I told her I would bring back gloves, a trash grabber and a bucket.  She shook my hand three times.

I'm getting help!  Yay!!!  

The bag weighs about a hundred pounds!  I sent an email to Keep Akron Beautiful and asked them to come pick it up.  I feel bad that it's so heavy.  I know beggars can't be choosers, but I wish she would have used a couple of bags.  I could barely drag it to the sidewalk.

I picked up 2,506 pieces tonight.  I'm at 491,707, almost to a half million!  I've picked up 155 nails, bolts and screws!  And swept up 714 piles of broken glass.

Please let it rain tomorrow!  I'm so tired!