Saturday 7th September 2013

It has been brutally hot.   I needed some shopping and I was torn between waiting until midnight, when it might be a bit cooler, and wanting to get it over with.   I chose the latter, and by great good fortune I was able to pull into a parking place right beside the entrance of Walmart, I didn't have to walk from the other side of the car park, where the fat people have to go.

Very pleasant this evening.   Bubbles is out enjoying the night air on the porch, watching the world, or the bugs and fireflies, go by.

 

What they call the Rim Fire has been blazing for the last three weeks in Yosemite National Park, and it is still only 7% contained.   The firefighters must be exhausted, I would imagine reinforcements are coming in from all over the country.   I think I heard today that it was started by an illegal camp fire.

These are the other large fires currently blazing away, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Washington state.

Changing the subject - there is great rejoicing and celebration going on in Shawnee at the moment because the City Council have announced, after a long, hard fought battle by the environmentalists, that there will be kerbside recycling where - at a cost of $16.50 per month - one can carry all one's tins, plastic, newspapers, glass. etc, down to one's kerb to be collected.

 However, I for one, am less than excited.   I am 74 years old, live alone, and every Tuesday morning (SIGH) I have to drag my heavy wheelie bin  over uneven ground, down to the kerb to be emptied.   I don't want to even contemplate the notion of also having to carry, or drag, additional stuff down to the kerb, I am too old and too tired.    And there are plenty of recycling places in Shawnee to drop it off, I don't know what the deal is, having it collected at the kerb, especially at $16.50 a month.

My recycling consists of taking magazines to the Senior Centre.