on me, my family and my City

A swirling vortex of what???

Late Sunday afternoon after a long day of weeding in the gardens the fruits of my labour were piled in two sealed garbage cans full of Taraxacum and Elytrigia repens; dandelions and couche grass to the ill-informed.  Normally I compost everything, recycling for the late fall or early spring on the lawns. But given the distinct possibility that I might be pulling these little devils up again from the lawns , I decided to take my days work to the land fill up the hill.

With room to spare in the back seat of my trusty Toyota, I stopped by my daughters place and picked up a large open plastic box of lawn clippings that she had been meaning to dispose of for some weeks…..now throughly dried out. Usually frightfully heavy, but now quite light to pick up for even this old guy.

Off I went, looking forward to a Double-Double upon completion of my appointed task.

Now you may not know our land fill, but it is situated on a highway just on the outskirts of Prince George….a quick zip of a drive from our place because the speed limit is about 80 kmh for the major part of the drive.

Flying up the hill, windows down, fresh air blowing through the car windows, what a great feeling.  You have to appreciate that this was the first dry day in about a week, the fresh air blowing through my hair….radio blasting away to the sounds of Buddy Holly.

Things were going fine, shooting along. Visions of Timmies dancing in my head. That was until I hit 75 kmh…………..suddenly in the rear view mirror this bloody vortex of dried grass clippings started to appear……in the back seat of my car!!!  At 85 kmh every cubic in of air space in the car was full of god damn dead brown grass….now being sucked out the windows…

By the time I pulled over and stopped, there wasn`t a blade of grass in the container from my daughter. Half of it was spread all over the highway. You can imagine where the other half was.

I have to thank my lucky stars that my wife decided not to come with me on this one trip? It is her car!!!

Did you know that there are no vacuum machines at any of the car washes in this blinkin` town on Sundays at 5:00 p.m.????