Project Clean

When I was in Whitehouse in early April, they were having their annual clean-up day. (I think it was all across Texas that weekend.) Today we have Project Clean here in the Dells. Tom and I joined others cleaning up litter along the roads and other areas. We went as part of the Stewards of the Dells of the Wisconsin River group. There were tons of Boy Scouts out there, too.

We had a nice day for it, dry and sunny and pleasantly warm after a long stretch of rain and cold.

Sad that there was so much junk. In a couple of hours, the four of us working our stretch of road picked up something like eight large garbage bags full of beer cans, bottles, styrofoam cups and the inevitable disposable diapers.

There was quite a bit of traffic along the lovely old road we were cleaning, lots of winding turns, trees and interesting limestone outcroppings. It is sad that people choose such a place to throw their trash. At one point someone driving by apparently tossed an empty potato chip bag out their car window as they went past us.

One of our companions suggested that maybe they thought we were doing community service as a punishment and they were just trying to help us learn our lesson.

"Happy thoughts, keep thinking happy thoughts!"