I didn't get my walking in yesterday, so I put in 90 minutes today.  It's interesting walking the road sides.  Some of the ditches or right-of-ways are very wide.  I wind up traversing them quite a bit.  One can is up at the top, another is at the bottom.  I never walk much of a straight stretch.  Today I walked what seemed to me to be a shorter distance, but I couldn't believe how many cans I found.  I really should clock in on my speedometer.  We've always called it the "S" Curves.  I cleaned up the "S" and found 2 large white grocery bags brimming full of aluminum cans.  I've learned to step on them and flatten them before I pick them up.  I have a poker, so I can stab them if I need to, otherwise I just bend over and pick them up.  The poker comes in handy for the cans that are embedded into the ground.  I kept smashing the cans down into the bags too, because I only had 2 bags with me.  I did have a smaller grocery bag and wound up with about 2 dozen cans in that as well.  Twelve regular aluminum cans make 1 pound.  Aluminum is 45 cents a pound here, so two dozen will almost make a buck!  This has become a game for me, but I don't know if I can wait a whole month before taking them in.  I don't really have a place to store them.

I am shocked and saddened by the trash along our beautiful roadways here.  It just makes me sick..  By the time I got back to my car, someone had already thrown a beer can out their window in a spot I had just gone over.  Unreal!  People are just slobs.

March 9, 2008 90 minutes,  2 grocery bags full of aluminum cans (plus 2 bags of garbage!)

March 10, 2008  70 minutes, 5 bags of aluminum cans!

March 11, 2008 50 minutes, 1 large white trash bag of crushed cans!

March 12, 2008 35 minutes, almost 1 large white trash bag full!

March 14, 2008 90 minutes, 2 lg. white trash bags brimming full +

March 17, 2008 45 minutes, 3/4 big black garbage bag!