Saturday, May 1, 2010

Green-Up Day

The ravine up behind our house is Lucy and Gavin's favorite place to explore. It is also apparently somebody's favorite place to dump stuff they no longer want. So we called the community coordinator for Green-Up Day to see if we could get some help cleaning it out.

Here's what we found:

15 tires and two rims
dishwasher
big screen TV
2 console TVs
computer monitor
grocery cart
pair of hip waders
pair of cross-country skis
large carpet and rug pad
mustard-colored wing chair
2 side chairs and cushions
lawnmower
2 large buckets
several large pieces of rusted metal
set of wooden stairs
metal Snoopy fork (a treasure rescued by a scout)
a dozen fluorescent light tubes
coffee maker
electric fan
20 bags of misc. trash


We completely filled a 1-ton municipal truck!



But we had a lot of help. A troop of eight boy scouts with their leaders and parents, several Norwich students, and some people from the community scrambled through the river and up the sides of the ravine with lots of awkward, heavy, soaking wet items. We couldn' t have done it without them.

Kinda restores my faith in humanity.