Daily trash collection happens sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. It’s an unbelievable racket, made worse since it's directly below us. The old dump truck navigates through a chaotic maze of cars. If the truck can actually get to the dumpters, the loading begins. The trucks are a tad too small for all of the rubbish, which makes garbage collection a full body endeavor. I looked out my window a few nights ago and saw the garbage man climbing up the sides of the truck, tamping the garbage down so that it could then be compressed. I never thought I would get used to this, but already I've started to think of it as my goodnight lullaby. Many decades from now Richard and I will laugh about this: "Do you remember that apartment in Kosovo? And our window looked out over the dumpsters?"
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Daily trash collection happens sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. It’s an unbelievable racket, made worse since it's directly below us. The old dump truck navigates through a chaotic maze of cars. If the truck can actually get to the dumpters, the loading begins. The trucks are a tad too small for all of the rubbish, which makes garbage collection a full body endeavor. I looked out my window a few nights ago and saw the garbage man climbing up the sides of the truck, tamping the garbage down so that it could then be compressed. I never thought I would get used to this, but already I've started to think of it as my goodnight lullaby. Many decades from now Richard and I will laugh about this: "Do you remember that apartment in Kosovo? And our window looked out over the dumpsters?"
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Hi Chelle,
I'm so glad you're doing a blog. What a great idea. It's so great to be able to see what it looks like there and to hear your comments.
Well here on the west coast we sit in a dreary overcast called Seattle but I love it well. I know that just 1000 feet above me is superb sunshine which reaches to all of the globe we call planet earth. Amazing how we are just a ball of mass, hard and soft materials on some fascinating course no human really knows how it all is, I think. And to wonder why humans beings and their evolution have always fought for their existence from stone age man and woman to modern man and woman. How cool it is to travel outside of the US and see different lands that belong to different people knowing that all of this space and soil belongs to all of us. Yes, the fighting will go on... it always will probably as long as humans beings have a demand for things and whatever it is that a human needs to sustain life. But the planet might still go round and round unless of course at some point in time an asteroid or nuclear bomb blows this planet to smithereens in the name of FREEEEEDOM!!!!!
Good luck Chelle, Rich and HAZEL :)
Jim
Hi there, Wendy and Jim. Great to hear from you! And glad that you like the little 'ol blog. It's good to write things down. FYI: Richard and I sat in the kitchen and predicted who will visit us here. You two made the list! Wouldn't that be a hoot?
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