Annual Neighborhood Clean up

  Today is our annual neighborhood clean up.  I participate every year.

I often roll my eyes when people talk about Canadian geese.  I even poke fun when you share those nasty Canadian geese on your blogs.  I guess you can see why.  For the life of me, I have no idea why we chose this goose as our logo for North Riverside Neighborhood Association.  Those geese took up residence here and refuse to leave because people fed and continue to feed them.  Now they are everywhere in our neighborhood.  And the slime they leave us in return!

Back to the clean up.  Below are photos from the past.

 

 

 

Long time viewers suffered through me removing my bamboo in 2021.

 

  

 

  Last year I cleaned my garage.

  And in 2022, I cleaned and organized my Rubbermaid shed.

Let's see a few action shots from the past.

  Old and young alike come out to help for this event. 

  Lots of volunteers were needed for this home.

  You were allowed to get rid of up to four tires, 

 

     but the tire truck came around for those.  Normally, people have to pay to get rid of tires.

I used to ride in one of the packer trucks. 

 

  It was my job to read the map and point out where the driver needed to go and which streets had trash out that day.  Trash had to be out the night before so another volunteer, the co-chair and I could create the maps after 9 p.m..

 

This image was taken from the packer truck.  It always looks like people are standing around, but that is not the case. With this many people, you can only load so much into the packer at one time. That means you take your turn. People who don't volunteer for the clean up are asked to help when the packer truck gets to their house. It's all about community.

  Although the people hadn't moved much, they were in line with their trash and ready to go.

  This is a different year I mapped out the area for the packer truck driver.  It was always my job to ride in one of the packer trucks and lay out the route for the driver.  What takes up all the room in the packer trucks are couches, mattresses, and kitchen stoves.  The committee seems to run it differently now, with the driver having the route he was to take merely given to him and no association member is allowed in the truck.  He goes up and down every street whether there is trash or not.  Seems a bit foolish to me, but since I am no longer co-chair (or even a member) of the committee, I have no say in the matter.  I DO still participate, though.

I'll definitely be talking trash today, but I won't be near a computer till late afternoon.  Hope you have a trash free day.  Bleubeard and Squiggles will be hiding in the AC.