An Arlo moment

[msmemory_archive]

I feel a chorus of Alice's Restaurant coming on. The town won't take my yard waste except for during a few weeks in the spring and fall. The DPW website says they have a list of places that take dumping "for a small fee" but the clerk in the office says none of those places is accepting it any more.

I have this urge to drive out to the countryside, find a cliff, and dump all my weeds and prunings over the edge! But I'd probably just get busted for Littering. And Creating A Nuisance.

Maybe I'll get me one of those copper firepits and burn it all, one fistful at a time.

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Grass and leaves? You can bring it to Virtue-Stracke's Home for Wayward Leaves, here in Chelmsford.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

And weeds, and trimmings from forcynthia, and wild morning-glory vines. If you're not put off by that, I'd love to. 3 barrels forthwith, more later.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Are the weeds fairly dead at this point? If so, that would be fine. You can come any time, even if I'm not here. I'm trying to layer the forest floor evenly, so I can tell you where I want 'em. Maybe I can tie a ribbon on the trees.... something like that.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Some were pulled up three weeks ago and are quite dead, some were fresh on Sunday. There is a sprouting/seeding risk :)

I am currently leaning toward fire as a solution...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

They'll probably be ok in the woods, then.

Go ahead with fire if you feel pyromanical, but they're welcome here.

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

And we have a large copper brazier (about 2 feet across) you'd be more than welcome to borrow. In which you could burn it a grocery bag at a time. Of course then you'd be cited for having a bonfire without a license or creating a nuisance or something like that.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

When the Buttery Guy Fawkes bonfire got shut down by the fire department, we were told that it would have been OK if we were actually using it to cook on. Not sure if the local ordinances for your area are the same, but they might be.

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

s'mores!!

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

Just don't put an envelope with your address under the stack when you leave it. :)

[eclecticmagpie.livejournal.com]

Why not compost?

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

The 3 barrelsful I have currently, nor the next three plus, will not fit in my compost bin :)

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

The "brush pile" seems to be the preferred method of composting around this neighborhood. This encourages a healthy mouse population. ;)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I don't need any *more* mice. Chipmunks, OTOH, are charming.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Compost, baby. With your garden, you could use the output of the composter, too. Please consider doing this -- it's a big favor to the environment and only occasionally icky if you don't get a composter that turns over material easily. :)

[baronessmartha.livejournal.com]

I sang a chorus to mittenydoom today at work.
I am not sure that bodes well.

[mylisant.livejournal.com]

Imagine... 50 people a day! Walkin' in, sittin' down, singin' a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walkin' out.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

If you have marshmallows or hot dogs and a small, well-controlled fire, can't you call it a cookout? I don't know what the law is in your town but that works in lotsa places. I'm from the country, admittedly, but once our township passed a law like that mom just made a point of having s'mores whenever she burned brush.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I bet I can. I don't want to make a fire circle in my lawn, though, so I would get a firebowl on feet and set it on the brick patio.

don't forget the pictures ...

[ramblingmom.livejournal.com]

Whatever you decide to do -- just remember to post some pictures (with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one .......)

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

You can horn in on my bi-weekly yard waste pickup if you like. I'd have to check if this Tuesday is a pickup or a pass.