The wind finally died down over night, the sun is bright, the day still chilly, but doesn’t feel frigid with it calm and sunny. We took our walk, a bit longer than most days, just because it was nice, then came home to tackle “the dump.”
It takes a very inconsiderate a**wipe to dump discarded furniture on someone’s private property when one of the county convenience centers is only 2.5 miles from here and the other less than 5, both will huge dump trailers and assistance at the farther one.
We hauled the double hooked tow strap up to the tractor and on down the road to the creek edge. The chair was about 20 feet down an embankment, near the edge of the creek. With the tractor directed the way it looked like the chair would be easiest to drag up the embankment, I scrambled down and attached a hook to the metal framework, hubby attached the other end to the back of the tractor. The tractor pulled it up the hill until it got caught on a small tree. Hubby couldn’t free it, so we turned the tractor around and started pulling the opposite way, it freed from that tree but got caught near a larger tree. Another reverse of direction as the road is narrow and banked, shortening the strap by hooking both hooks on the frame and looped around the tractor blade frame and it popped up onto the road.
You can see the creek down the hill over the arm of the chair.
We loaded it into the bucket of the tractor, picked up bottles, styrofoam clam shell containers and plates, and loaded it back down to barn.
The convenience center isn’t open on Sunday, so it will have to wait until tomorrow to be loaded into the old CRV (I think it will fit in the back) and driven down to where it should have been taken in the first place.
By removing it, the cooler, and the trash, we hope to indicate that it isn’t a dump. In those first few years here, we removed a water heater, a stove, a washing machine, part of a vehicle, and dozens and dozens of tires, along with the bottles and cans that were impacting the creek and someone’s water supply, maybe ours.
I wish everyone felt the same way we do about treating the environment and other’s property with respect.