Ready and waiting

Could be empty already. Garbage pickup comes early on my block. When I return from driving my dear wife Karen to her 7 a.m. Monday shift at the eye center less than a half-mile from our house, one of the two big pails is usually empty. Usually it’s the black garbage bucket. Another truck comes…

Out with the new, in with the old

So many garbage pails. The Town of Salina delivered to residents two hulking new garbage pails. Instructions told us that a new haulers would take the huge green one for recyclables and black one for regular trash once a week come this new year. Same day as the old haulers took our own pails and…

Collection row

A day off from the library allowed me to walk with Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around the block surrounding A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in the weekday morning of our garbage collection. We scooting past cans and bins before folks had a chance to bring them in from the curb.…

Too big for easy picking?

Usually when something of any value of all is put out to the road here in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, it’s picked up by this urban hunter or that. We’ve had a king-size mattress disappear from in front of the Little Bitty, much to our joy. Yeah, it was a comfortable bed, but…

Please pick up your errant crap

My dear wife Karen and I take pride in our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood or Eastwood. For a dozen years now, we’ve done the most we can to pretty up our little piece of property here on Earth. And so it irks me when some of my neighbors are not so diligent…

This Santa may have been very bad

The weekly garbage pickup in my Syracuse city neighborhood comes every Tuesday morning. My neighbor across the street got hers out this afternoon. Talk about timing. On Christmas Eve, this Santa will say bye-bye. I am certain my neighbor is not a Grinch, by the way. Her house is decorated for the holiday. She bakes…