Stepping Up
Feb. 13th, 2025 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenOur volunteering with Keep Clay Beautiful is off to a pretty good start. We picked up our section of highway and the grand total for that first round of picking was 220 pounds. Including a hubcap, a roll of hog fencing, entirely too many piss bottles, an enormous socket wrench (unfortunately too far gone to be usable), and so goddamn many diapers. Seriously, what the fuck. Anyway, we met with the coordinator last night, and he gave us a bunch of cool stuff, including hi-viz green t-shirts and these neat trash bag things you can carry in one hand, and it keeps the bag open. Much more efficient than our bucket system.
The training/orientation was mostly going through the handbook, talking about expectations and dress codes, etc. Each area has some specific requirements, so if someone wants to volunteer at the animal shelter, there's an additional animal handling class to attend. I signed up for parks and rec, so I have a lady to email and set up a time to go get oriented over at Camp Chow. We were out pretty late last night.
I've started picking up trash along Villa Neuva, mainly because I am tired of looking at it. As much as I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and say it's blowing out of trucks or something, it's probably being tossed on purpose. I think people see the dirt road with no one on it for about half a mile, and figure "no one lives out here." So they dump all kinds of shit.
Anyway.
If we're lucky, we're about to get some rain showers. It's too hot, and the rain will pack the road down. Tomorrow I think Fox plans to break my computer down and work on it some, including cloning my drives. He's upgrading his rig, so I get his hand-me-downs, which isn't the worst situation for me. I've never exactly needed to be an early adopter or anything. And a lot of the games I play aren't that hard on system resources. It'll be fun to see how Baldur's Gate runs though.
The training/orientation was mostly going through the handbook, talking about expectations and dress codes, etc. Each area has some specific requirements, so if someone wants to volunteer at the animal shelter, there's an additional animal handling class to attend. I signed up for parks and rec, so I have a lady to email and set up a time to go get oriented over at Camp Chow. We were out pretty late last night.
I've started picking up trash along Villa Neuva, mainly because I am tired of looking at it. As much as I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and say it's blowing out of trucks or something, it's probably being tossed on purpose. I think people see the dirt road with no one on it for about half a mile, and figure "no one lives out here." So they dump all kinds of shit.
Anyway.
If we're lucky, we're about to get some rain showers. It's too hot, and the rain will pack the road down. Tomorrow I think Fox plans to break my computer down and work on it some, including cloning my drives. He's upgrading his rig, so I get his hand-me-downs, which isn't the worst situation for me. I've never exactly needed to be an early adopter or anything. And a lot of the games I play aren't that hard on system resources. It'll be fun to see how Baldur's Gate runs though.
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Date: 2025-02-14 03:48 am (UTC)We have the same problem where we live. An older neighbor tried organizing cleanups but no one showed. Since the side of our property lies on a main road, people throw out all manner of things which really irks me. Mostly it's beverage bottles. When it was hot & dry, lit cigarettes were a problem. One kind man doubled back & put out the growing fire by stomping on it. I had no clue; I happened to see his post on NextDoor. I was grateful he stopped. Otherwise, no telling what would've happened. People literally just don't care when they do stuff like that.
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Date: 2025-02-15 01:26 pm (UTC)I dread wildfire season for that very reason - the stupid cigarettes.
Some people are just oblivious, and I'm not sure what it takes to get them to pay attention.
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Date: 2025-02-16 08:07 pm (UTC)Yeah. The same thing happens here almost immediately after someone picks up trash, which is another reason people stopped bothering. No one has pride for their area anymore.
Honestly, something happening to their own property.