My Actifit & Life Report Card: November 28 2018

When your day starts with finding dog poop on the floor, you would think that it only can get better after that, right?

Wrong!!!

Angry voices made me look out the window. There was a guy at my little free library swearing and looking through the books.

Someone from the car yelled at him. He sat in the car for a bit, yelling that it wasn’t there.

Then, he jumped out again and looked some more.

I didn’t feel like going out there - he didn’t look like he was in a good mood.

That seemed like a good decision that got reinforced by a news item that someone had just shot a guy at an ATM - at noon - right next to a school...

Later, I checked and books were on the ground and all over. Nice!!!

Not.

As I walked along the street to the library, I saw a lot of cigarette butts and trash. I had just cleaned there. What up smokers? Take your trash home!!!

I picked up half a bin of trash. Lots of candy wrappers. When the school lets out, an icecream truck shows up every day across the street from me. I guess that is the legal distance the sugar dealer has to keep from the school. I feel sad every time I see an overweight kid stopping and getting an ice cream or candy. Diabetes 2 in younger and younger kids is a reality.

One reason I decided to clean up the trash right away is that it is supposed to rain. Actually, the forecast this morning said that it should rain by now - but nothing yet.

Nevertheless, I prepared for rain. With my friend moving in, there was all kinds of stuff strewn around that shouldn't get wet. I brought all of it under a roor, collected all the garden tools, and so forth.

And I cleared the ditch that goes right through my property and collects the runoff from the whole neighborhood. All the cigarette butts that got thrown down have a potential to end up in that ditch and eventually in my yard. I do have several catching devices and traps in place, but better not to have stuff come in in the first place.

The garden will be happy to get some rain!!!

One thing I forgot was to drain all my watercatchments and to clean out the raingutters and the filters that catch the first run off. Dang. Will do it in the morning - hopefully in the rain. We really need it.

But it is also always a bittersweet event. Often, it rains so much that everything floods. And that, we don't want.

So, here is to a much better day tomorrow. Hoping for a gentle rain, laughing plants, nice neighbors and steem going up 😉