We've had a spot of warm weather in between the cold fronts. I thinned and transplanted my onions last week, and today I dug a spot and put in a few garlic cloves.

We have a creek in our back yard, and heavy rains a couple of weeks ago washed all of the loose trash from upstream area parks and parking lots into the water. A lot of it snags in our shrubs along the bank. Yesterday I went out once, and today I was out again twice (the kids were with me on one of these trips) to pick up the plastic along the beach. It looked like a dump before, with all of the grocery bags flapping in the bushes, but now it looks like a regular creek. I also pick up all of the aluminum for recycling. Since there is a bridge at the bottom of our road (I'm two doors up from it) I have noticed that the bridge slows the water just enough that it drops it's load of stuff around here. There is usually a concentration of cans there after each rain. It only brings in a few bucks from recycling, but I figure by collecting it I am removing some trash and I'm putting gas in the truck to take it over to the recycling bin. The rest of the trash goes out to the curb with my regular house trash.

SRS