I'm just going outside and may be away some time

[sovay]

I just hacked a foot and a half of solid ice off my recycling bins with a metal spade so that I could take out the trash tonight. That was a lot more Scott of the Antarctic than I was expecting from a Monday night.

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[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Yoiks. For once, I am glad we do not HAVE trash bins in this neck of the woods.

(OTOH, we DO have parking bans. Hello, freezing-cold dawn tomorrow.)

[sovay]

For once, I am glad we do not HAVE trash bins in this neck of the woods.

I have to say it was worse than I was expecting. It took about five minutes of concerted whanging with a heavy shovel before the ice started to split and calve off. I'm sure it's already building up again, but our last two weeks of recycling (and an ordinary week of trash, but that doesn't mean I want it around) are not our problem anymore.

(OTOH, we DO have parking bans. Hello, freezing-cold dawn tomorrow.)

(We don't have a car, which simplifies this problem considerably.)