Redwood Avenue, Day 2

Monday, February 17^th, 2014

This Monday was Presidents Day, with no Toastmasters meeting.  But I had an Eyewitness Report interview on KAJO at 9:25 AM.  It was short and sweet, and went pretty well.  You can find it in their archives. 

I parked in the center of the intersection of the Redwoods and picked it up a bit, as I hadn’t done so on Sunday.  I then started on Redwood where I had left off, at the other side of the main entrance to the YMCA, where a pile of big trash was calling to me from under the big wild rose bush and smaller blackberries nearer to the entrance.  I filled the trash bag too full to comfortably carry in the first 50 feet, and started using my little bucket to fill the larger bag in the back of my truck.

When I got tired of working in the big ditch, I worked other side of the road for a while, continuing to clean what I had done the week before and going a little further toward and along the Redwood Highway and down in the big dip between the two roads.  Moving up and down off the highway, conscious of the traffic and showing my bag or tunic when I could, I realized that I needed a sign to set on top of my truck, a sandwich board in the same style as my tunic, so people would know when they see my truck that I am cleaning litter in the vicinity.  I could clean out of sight and not worry about it.

I soon drove back into town to take a break at home and to order those signs, which should be ready this coming Wednesday, 9 days later, along with the stickers for my bags.  When I came back and continued, I found a discarded TV in the ditch next to the Fairgrounds parking lot, broken in two pieces and several smaller ones by impact.  I cut the wires that held the two big pieces together and put them in separate bags, along with some big cardboard, and left them up by the guardrail as I used the bucket to finish filling the two bags.

I got about to the end of the guardrail that day, and picked up 5 bags of trash.  I took them to the All-Sports Park again, this time going in the main entrance and dropping them at cans here and there.  The last two, with the TV and a 2’ x 4’ stiff sheet of fiberglass, were left next to the dumpster at Maintenance.