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We Inherited Junk, Part 2

06:44, Monday, January 28, 2008 .. Posted in Home Improvement .. 0 comments .. Link

"What's that big black wire that's hanging down out front by the tree, the one coming down from the thing that's stuck on the other thing and in a big pile?"

It was the best I could describe it.

My husband asked me to show it to him, and then he informed me that it had been there for a long while. It is a long, black cable that used to be attached to an eave on the front of the house, which my husband disconnected because it was in the way. It gives you cable television. We don't have television so we don't need it. He had called the cable television company to come and get their cable, which he had coiled out by the road for their convenience. They told him that they had no record of there ever being any cable television account at the location of our house, and they would not be coming for the cable. A cable, that is according to the building code inspector, is a regulation cable used by no one but the cable television company.

You see, I was asking because we get a lot of junk falling along the road that fronts our property. A couple of months ago, I was in the kitchen when an enormous clattering of noise came from out front. I ran to look out the front window, convinced that I would be confronted with an over turned truck, and saw that there was a scattering of construction debris along the road. Wood, bits of cement, junk. Now, surely the person driving the truck that this flew off of heard the noise it made when it landed in the road! But they did not stop and it fell on us to navigate our vehicles around it as we left the driveway each day. It was nearly a month before the highway department came to pick it up and haul it away.

A couple of weeks ago we acquired another fallen item on the road out front. A mattress! Now, you would think someone would miss a mattress that did not get to its intended location. But no one came for the mattress, which my generous husband pushed off to the side of the road. Again, it languished there for weeks until this morning. The road department finally came by to take it away.

In other news, my husband has asked me to start looking at wood stoves to see what I like, so he can keep an eye out for a good price on one. We're thinking ahead to next winter, of course. But my thoughts are of bulbs peeking through the ground, longer days, and the promise of spring. The thought of looking at wood stoves holds very little appeal right now...but it's the least I can do for the man who indulged me in a gardening conversation last night while helping me process a huge bunch of coriander by pulling leaves off of stems. What a guy!

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