… pitchin’ in.
On any given day, loose litter blows about in the gentle wind … a stray fast-food wrapper here, an empty water bottle there. A half-eaten apple, carelessly tossed aside, reposes near the perimeter path, evidently too dilapidated for the squirrels to claim and gnaw on.
By Winter’s end, paper debris plastered itself against the chain-link fence where snow or ice weighed it down, so it remained, that is, until volunteers showed up in the rain on Earth Day to beautify Council Point Park, just one of our City’s 19 parks. I saw the photos posted on the City’s informal Facebook page the evening of Earth Day, plus I saw those efforts the following day when I walked around Council Point Park for my virtual 5K walk. It wasn’t just trash either. This year’s Earth Day cleanup endeavor had folks picking up huge branches that cracked off trees following our February 22nd ice storm. They bundled them to be picked up by the City’s park maintenance crew.
Then there are the “Ecorse Creek Cleanup” events when, on three occasions each Summer, a team of volunteers, armed with their gear, i.e. gloves, pointy pick-up sticks and long-handled grabbers, converge to nab debris on land and in the Ecorse Creek, the latter endeavor done while seated in kayaks and canoes. The group gathers to beautify three Downriver Parks: Beaver Park in Wyandotte, Council Point Park in Lincoln Park and Pepper Park in Ecorse. Their efforts make these three parks a pleasant AND cleaner place to walk/run/rollerblade or bike.
Last Summer I was at one of their chosen venues, Council Point Park, on a beautiful Summer Saturday, September 10th, my wings clipped from venturing to larger park venues since my car had developed an oil leak and was going to the shop on Monday. So, I ventured on foot to Council Point Park instead.
When I arrived at the Park that morning, the kayaks and canoes were stacked up and some were already in the launching area. I chitchatted with the organizers of the group. They were registering volunteers and doling out tee-shirts and extra-large garbage bags to be stuffed with litter gleaned from the Park grounds and the Ecorse Creek.
These volunteers were on the move.
They donned their neon-colored shirts and soon were off for their respective duties. The “on-land” volunteers were spearing litter left and right, then deftly placing it into their bags. Here are a couple of gentlemen picking up litter along the Creek’s shoreline.
I took a picture of the cement ledge wall with two empty energy drink cans and a hoodie draped over that wall.
A moment later, two women swooped in and cleared those items in a heartbeat.
All that was left was the graffiti on the wall.
They were industrious as a few minutes later, they had so much trash, I saw they had to share carrying that load.
I caught up with this guy spearing litter …
… and asked him to pose with his picker stick next to, what else, but this sign about littering. Of course, they should replace that sign with a new one, but would that encourage less littering? Hmm.
I asked to take a picture of the back of his shirt and he accommodated me.
Trolling for trash on the Creek.
The Ecorse Creek is formally called the “Ecorse River” and is a tributary to the nearby Detroit River. It is 18.8 miles/30.3 km long and, because of its small size, it is merely referred to as the Ecorse Creek or “The Creek” around these parts.
I’ve been following the group’s efforts for a while through the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Facebook site. They bring their own canoes and kayaks and some are brought in for them to use. I’ve seen photos where those volunteers extricated bicycles, baby strollers, basketballs and baby dolls – you name it, they have grabbed onto this trash, then piled it into their kayaks or canoes to dispose of properly. Here’s a photo from their site – look at all the trash! It’s a wonder the canoe did not sink!
I asked one guy wearing knee-high rubber boots how deep the Creek was and he said “only chest high” which surprised me as I thought it was deeper than that, but I’ll still remain careful that I don’t topple in when standing on the cement ledge. Here a few of the volunteers preparing for this convoy along the Creek.
I spoke to another gentleman as he was ready to begin his trash quest …
… then later he proudly showed me one of the bags of trash he had collected in that short amount of time.
The volunteers would continue paddling down the Ecorse Creek past Lions Park, just one-half mile away. I walked to Lion’s Park, took a few photos while awaiting the paddlers, but they got hung up somewhere, so I returned to Council Point Park. Here are a few shots of the shoreline at Lion’s Park.
Over the course of almost three hours and my long walk, I chatted it up with many of the volunteers. One gentleman was not picking up trash, but instead videotaping the group’s efforts. He chuckled when he saw the squirrels clustered around me as I doled out peanuts under the Safe Haven Tree. I told him my visits with the volunteers and photographing their efforts had waylaid “breakfast” so my furry friends were eager to see me. He asked if I would mind if he took a video of us and I said “not at all” then I promised to send photos to the group which I sent to Rose a few days later. [I had more photos, but omitted them here as they seemed duplicative to me.]
I left for home before the clean-up at Council Point Park was finished. The next day when I arrived at the Park something at Brian Skinner’s memorial tree, near the pavilion, caught my eye. Evidently this rusted scooter was retrieved from the Creek and leaned up against the tree which had been decorated for 4th of July and the scooter remained for several weeks thereafter.
What I have enjoyed most about walking at Council Point Park this past ten years is it is a small enough nature nook to notice any and all the subtle changes, Mother Nature’s doing or otherwise. The seasons come and go and I know which trees leaf out first, or which trees turn glorious shades of orange or red and where the first tiny Spring Beauties wildflowers grow. My head is always swirling around!
I’ll leave you with a quote by E.B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little among other books.
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” ~ E. B. White
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
great effort! maybe its my time of life, but I was particularly envious of the apparent sturdiness of their refuse sacks. Far too often they are so flimsy as to be of no use but those, those are fabulous looking bin bags worthy of being stuffed with the detritis they gathered. That alone would be incentive for me you know, to test just how sturdy…
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I thought it was a great effort too Michael. Yes, those heavy bags are sturdy – you could really tell with the two women carrying the heavy bag between them. It makes it better to stuff them to the gills!
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It’s great that people come together to clean up. I’m not aware of that here although you can (or usually a business) will take a stretch of road and commit to keeping it clean year round.
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We have that “Adopt A Highway” here too Kate and it used to be just groups like Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts used to volunteer to adopt a stretch of road or highway; now it is big companies with their employees getting involved, or even families and they often put their names on the sign that they help maintain the highway on the designated clean-up days (three or four times from Spring – Fall).
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What a wonderful thing they’re doing, I just think it’s a shame they have to do it in the first place. Why do people throw things into the river or the woods as though there are no trash receptacles anywhere? Why do they think it’s only one little piece of trash or that someone else should be the one that picks it up? A friend of mine used to own a storage unit place which was next door to Lowe’s. They spent hours every month cleaning up Lowe’s bags and other trash that blew into the fence. Did Lowe’s ever clean that mess up? No, at least not according to her. It bugs me tremendously that people can’t just be responsible for their own behavior and clean up after themselves.
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This is a wonderful thing these volunteers do, especially hauling trash out of the Creek. I agree with you Zazzy – I see garbage plunked down next to trash cans. I saw people complaining right after the pandemic began, that people would remove their masks and gloves when exiting the grocery store and throw them on the floor next to the garbage cans. People would take pictures hoping to shame them. When I began walking at this Park, there was a walker named Mike, who walked four miles a day. He began walking after recovering from a heart attack. So, one trip (both loops) around the Park is two miles. Mike brought a bag and heavy gloves and he picked up litter on that first time around the entire Park, then he would go his car, ditch the gloves and get his bag of peanuts to feed the squirrels while he walked the rest of his miles. He passed away from cancer just before the pandemic began, but boy would he grumble when he would get there in the morning and trash was all over the pavilion area where the picnic tables are. They do put out cans all year around.
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they should revise that saying about death and taxes and include that there will always be litter!
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I know that’s right Wayne. It is terrible sometimes. It is nice of these volunteers, especially hauling trash out of the Creek – they are diligent about keeping the water debris free. I saw something on the way home from the Park today which amazed me. Someone had run over a Mallard Duck – something I’ve never seen before to be honest, though I have seen a Mallard Duck pair in that neighborhood in the past. I suspect they wandered there from the Park. Anyway, a Crow was feasting on that dead duck. I felt a little sick seeing that and did not know Crows eat carrion, though I think it was a fresh kill, not like road kill several days old.
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poor thing, cars kill so many creatures each year!
Yes,Crows eat carrion. I’ve put dead mice out and they were scooped up immediately by Crows.
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I felt so badly for the duck Wayne. Innocently crossing the street and not something I’ve seen before. I’m sorry it strayed from the Park. All the ducks must be sitting on nests as I have not seen any ducks in awhile … until this poor duck. I had no idea Crows ate carrion and I didn’t realize they would eat a mouse either – wow. I learned something today.
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I really admire these volunteers Linda, especially the ones who take on the arduous task of cleaning the creek. The photo of the guy “proudly” displaying his trash suggests the volunteers view the task as something of a treasure hunt. The lead-off apple almost looks like a pumpkin in need of a candle. The E.B. White quote is a perfect finishing flourish for the topic. Well done!
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I admire them too Dave. They were really enthusiastic about this venture, especially the “water crew” – I talked to several groups of them that day. I have followed the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge site on Twitter and Facebook since it opened in October 2020 and that’s how I learned about their efforts; the photos what they haul out on a regular basis will astound you. I saw the half-eaten apple on the ground and knew that would be my header image. It it was squirrels, it would have gnaw marks – I used to take apples for the squirrels until the hawks showed up – sitting eating apples as they’re heavy to carry around made them sitting ducks, so I stopped. A human just discarded it there. Glad you liked the quote. I saw it in advance of Earth Day and tucked it away. I couldn’t use it for last week’s post as the calendar page had its own quote. I loved those two books as a kid!
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Pickin’ or pitch in’. What a littering T, Linda! Ha. Ha. Ha.
What would apples, wind and litter have in common? I wondered. Good write up and good people!
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Ha ha – glad you liked that TD. I was thinking of the old Hee Haw TV show where Buck Owens and Roy Clark would be “pickin’ and grinnin'” when I originally thought of that title. We have had many windy days in Winter and Spring, so there was a lot of litter all along the fence line and through the Park. Those are good people doing good deeds … I didn’t help them, but took a lot of photos for here and to give to them. [P.S. – sorry, I had to fish your comment out from my SPAM filter as you had a different profile pic and e-mail address.]
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Just wow! What they did is absolutely incredible
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It is amazing Ellie and very good-hearted of them. I wonder if you had the same problem with littering in the UK after the massive crowds viewing the Coronation and the related festivities? Hopefully not, but I’ll bet everything was back to normal by today.
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Zazzy said what I was thinking, too. It’s a wonderful project, but the need for it makes me sad.
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I agree with both of you Ally. It is an admirable effort but still a shame it must be done and I told Zazzy that after the pandemic began, people would exit the grocery store and shed their masks and gloves and drop them on the ground next to the garbage can. People would take pics and post them, but it continued.
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Great job done by the volunteers and a very nice quote!
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I agree Rebecca – it’s admirable they take time to do this clean-up effort three times each year, especially tackling that Creek. I saw that quote in conjunction with Earth Day and liked it. I enjoyed reading those books as a child.
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Wow such a lot of garbage! We have the same here, volunteers doing parks, roadsides etc. It’s incredible the amount of garbage. Tim Horton’s coffee cups are everywhere! I don’t understand why people just toss them. And the doggie do bags, people take the time to pick it up and tie the bag and then they tie the bag in a tree. I don’t get that at all. We see dozens of these bags hanging in parks.
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It amazes me the amount of trash picked up as well Susan and I see the doggie do bags laying on the side of the road, or different park paths too and I just don’t get it. Most parks have dispensers to get the bags and metal containers to deposit the bags in. We get lots of take-out coffee cups and drink cups too … endless trash which does not make it into trash cans.
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The cleanup looked quite successful. I enjoyed reading about it.
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Yes, their crew did a massive clean-up effort Anne, especially on the water. I’ve seen some amazing pictures from their past efforts and I don’t know how the canoes and kayaks didn’t sink from the weight of all that debris.
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The E. B. White quote is really true, “Is a perfect finishing flourish for topic. I like.
I really admire these volunteers, Linda!
Iam glad there are volunteers to clean-up after the thoughtless people who discard so much litter. It’s hard things to understand. The clean-up looked quite successful.
So advisable & acceptance topic sharing you, Linda 🤠
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I am glad you liked the post and the quote Raj. I liked that quote too – it is very true. It is nice of these volunteers to spend three Saturdays each year to clean up the three parks – I don’t know why people litter either.
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Thanks, Bridgette, Really true quote. People can’t understand that.
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I’m glad there are volunteers to clean up after the thoughtless people who discard so much litter. It’s a hard thing to understand. What happened to the scooter? I expect the owner found it missing and whoever stole it eventually dumped it in the creek. Such a shame.
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Those volunteers worked wonders Eilene. It’s sad all the items that get dumped in there and sadder that they have to have three clean-ups a year on top of it. I’m sure that’s what happened with the scooter – stolen, then dumped. I guess the volunteers decided someone might like to fix it up, though it looked beyond fixing due to rust.
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Miss Linda…………………………………….I enjoyed today’s blog………….thank you for telling me all about Ecorse (Creek) River ………………………………….clean up……………………I feel hopeful that there are other people around us who also want to enjoy our Neighborhood looking fresh and clean…………………..I love E.B. White’s quote…………………thank you for looking that up for us
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Hi Ann Marie – Glad you enjoyed learning about the volunteers who help make these three parks more enjoyable with their efforts. Do you remember Mike who used to walk around the entire Council Point Park picking up trash, then he’d remove his gloves and take his bag of peanuts to feed the squirrels on his second trip around the Park? He was walking there when I met you. He would have liked what these folks are doing, especially the ones who go out on the water. I liked E.B. White’s quote too. I enjoyed reading “Charlotte’s Web” and “Stuart Little” when I was a kid.
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It’s nice there are all those volunteers willing to help out! We seldom ever have clean-ups here.
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Yes it was nice of them, especially the ones in the water as they drag a lot of stuff out of the water and still stay afloat. Probably people are more diligent about managing their litter.
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Possibly, at least in the city parks. I missed another nice weather day today indoors again. I spent yesterday waiting for the plumber to show up to fix the no water problem in the bathtub, (the circle where you turn the faucet on was broken as nothing came out), only to get a phone call mid-pm saying he wasn’t able to come as the morning job took 5 hours and he had other jobs first. They rebooked it for today 1-5pm, said it would be closer to 1pm, and he showed up at 5:30, in a bad mood. I kind of felt sorry for him, as I remember those days – too much work to get done in the allotted time and head office clueless. He was here until 6:30 – broken cartridge piece and then he cleared the drain. I gave him some pop and cookies and an orange as I think he was hungry, and he seemed grateful for them. He still had 2 more jobs to do. The call centre always overbooks – it’s not realistic and only results in angry customers. After I fed mom supper I finally got out for a walk to enjoy those last rays of sunlight!
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That’s terrible they overbook the repair people … then by the time they get to you, they are worn out and punchy. That was nice of you to feed him. At least you got the plumbing issue fixed. Last year I told the plumber he could schedule the valve job – to move the shut-off valve to where I could reach it (it is in the rafters under the dropped ceiling) and called and e-mailed … they never contacted me. I kind of took it as an omen … the saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” But what if I need to shut it off sometime? It was beautiful weather again and tomorrow as well. Too bad it will rain this weekend off and on. Do you have any plans with your mom for Mother’s Day?
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No, just take out Swiss Chalet chicken I think. I wouldn’t eat in a restaurant still. I bought lettuce and tomato plants yesterday so am planting this afternoon. It’s a bit early but I’ve got them so might as well get them in.
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That will be nice … you don’t have to cook either. I would not go into a restaurant either. Today with the end of the pandemic recognized, the news media reminded people to stay dilgent. Dr. Sanja Gupta Tweeted out a similar message adding a little extra at the end:
“Today, the US joins the @WHO in formally ending the pandemic. For some, this will seem arbitrary. For others, long overdue. I have long thought of the US as my patient, so here are your discharge orders. Bottom line: stay vigilant, get healthy and #BeKind.”
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Took mom to get lab work done today and lab tech was not wearing a mask, but we both were!
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It is like that everywhere I went before and now with the pandemic declared over, you’ll see less and less masks. I will continue to mask up too Joni.
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Clever title to go with the photos and story. I always wonder how the parks get cleaned up, now I know. It’s great there are so many willing volunteers to do the work. I wonder if they missed a year or two during the pandemic or if that’s the usual amount to clean up year after year? You captured the action of the events well. That one volunteer sure has a LONG braid! Thanks for sharing 🤗🥰
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That’s a good question Shelley. I do go to Council Point Park on weekends before I go to larger venues, but sometimes I don’t, so I may have missed their group get-together efforts that year. I always thought the Parks and Recreation staff cleaned up until I learned of this effort through the Detroit River International Wildlife Fund. I am impressed by it. I’m glad you liked the photos … I took more but left them out of the post. It is a long braid … I’ll bet she has never cut her hair and must move it out of the way to sit down!
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It was nice that you shared the efforts of what it takes to keep a park looking healthy and welcoming to visitors (critters and humans!).
Yeah, that’s really long hair. It was a lovely braid!
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Their efforts sure are admirable. I would worry with a braid that long as to doing work … I guess that is not like heavy lifting/yardwork, but I’d worry it would get caught somehow. My hair was shoulder length most of my life, maybe a little longer in my teens and my mom would French braid it for me in the Summer months. It would still look nice at the end of the day, no matter how humid, rainy or windy it was. I could not French braid my hair as I’d drop pieces or lose my place halfway thru, even with a mirror.
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Yes, indeed, they are. I’d worry too about a braid that long doing work where it might get caught in something.
I love French braiding my hair in the summer too – for the same reasons you stated. For some reason, the French braid is easy for me to do on my own. I can’t do it looking in a mirror though, that messes with me! 😂
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Since your hair is curly, it has more texture, so holds in place better. I had one of those mirrors you stick onto the regular mirror so I could use it when I traveled to keep my hair in place. But I couldn’t master it. Then I bought a device which looked like a small ice scraper to hold the separated hair in place – nothing worked for me unfortunately. 🙂
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Ah, that’s probably true. I found that it was out of sheer boredom one afternoon that I taught myself how to envision what I was doing and it worked, and stuck, I can still braid that way to this day. No matter how many attempts though, I can’t do the Dutch braid at all. 🤣
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I had to look at am image of a Dutch braid – I forgot what it looked like. Down in the basement, there is a cupboard and two shelves inside that cupboard are filled with plastic shoeboxes (labeled with Dynamo label tape no less, from the days when I knew where everything was in the house) of hair ornaments for braids and other doodads for hair. I had, at one time, either a braid book or braid video. I wonder if I bought it and brought it home and asked my mom to expand her horizons?
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To tell the truth, I had to look it up too!! 🤣 I just can’t get my hands to make the Dutch braid since I’ve been doing the French braid for so long.
Ah, the good old plastic shoeboxes for organizing. I have my share too!! I’m sure your mom wanted to encourage you and your desires!
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I look at those hair ornaments and just sigh sometimes. I think the only item I used myself was I had some bobby pins with abalone butterflies on them. Most of the hair accessories were by Jontee and we shopped at Crowleys (long gone out of business) and they had a whole counter of these unique hair accessories. The good ol’ days.
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It was a thing to use hair accessories. I had a bunch from high school that I let my daughters play with and use, that was an easy way for them to disappear. 🤣 Some of the styles are coming back. I haven’t gone there yet, probably won’t.
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Sometimes I tell myself (sadly) I am too old for SOME things. I saw a sweatshirt with Winnie the Pooh on it and a saying. I have looked at it multiple times, then remind myself … you are too old for a Winnie the Pooh anything. I made myself a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt. I used to do Pretty Punch, which was like crewel embroidery – I did it so long ago, it was before we had a VCR because I wanted to stay up and see TV shows at 10:00 p.m. and I’d fall asleep watching them on weeknights. So I made several sweatshirts with designs I did myself … well I decided it was too pretty to wear and I would keep it. Now, a 67-year-old woman does not wear Mickey Mouse and there it sits, like all my work clothes.
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Aw, maybe you could wear the sweatshirt to work at your home office desk. Wear what brings you joy, Linda.
Maybe you could sell them on an online thrift store? You’d be surprised how many people still want to wear the styles you wrote about. 😉
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Well, it is just me sitting here Shelley and I am at the kitchen table … not even as fancy as a home desk. I will dwell on it a little more.
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Maybe you can call the sweatshirts your transition to retirement wear 😉
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Actually I kinda/sorta dress like that now. 🙂
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😉😂
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Here is something I remember I had called “The Accordion” and I think I had one in white and black – I Googled it and someone is selling one on Etsy. What was cool was you flipped it to make it expand.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/905498332/vintage-the-hair-accordian-jontee
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I had something like that, it was called the banana clip. Those were cool and so easy to use.
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Yes, I had banana clips too – I would have to hike them up all the time as they would slide out of my hair as it was straight, even though I curled it every day. This you flipped it somehow to secure it and when you did that it exposed the ribbons. I had some black-and-white outfits, so I had two accordions, one in black, one in white, so my head was accessorized. I’d like back some of the $$ spent on accessories thru the years.
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Oh, yeah, the banana clips did slip! I so agree – I feel the same about money wasted on fashion!!
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It’s great to see this kind of community effort just sad that they have to devote time to this instead of something more enjoyable.
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I agree with you Ruth – the fact that maintaining these parks takes three annual vents is a little scary too!
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What an amazing group effort to beautify the park and clean up the area! I’m glad you posted about this, because you would never know there was something like this or faces behind the clean up efforts.
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They really spruced it up Esther, especially the efforts by the “water crew” … they had a whole convoy of canoes and kayaks filled with volunteers hefting garbage out of the Creek. It is nice to know that volunteers do it – you’d otherwise assume it is just the City workers.
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Now I need to research local groups that do this sort of thing.
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It’s really great what they do Linda. They are using robots (called BeBots) and drones to pick up trash in northern Michigan. I guess they don’t have volunteers there!
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I don’t understand litter. Or at least those who litter. I live on a street that some use as a cut-through from one busy road to another. While not an everyday occurrence, I have picked up a decent amount of OPT (other peoples’ trash) from my front yard. Good on those who are cleaning up.
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I don’t understand it either JP. What amazes me the most is when people toss trash right next to the trash can which makes no sense to me. This group is working with others to clean up the Rouge River today. The Rouge River goes thru 48 cities and is 466 square miles, so that is quite a large undertaking.
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There is something so satisfying volunteering to clean up nature. God Bless all the volunteers that take part in the love of the land.
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I agree with you Diane, especially those that went out in canoes and kayaks to pick up trash, some bringing in enough trash that could sink that canoe/kayak. We had a big clean-up effort yesterday for the Rouge River … the Rouge River goes through 48 Michigan cities and so this was a big effort. It is a fast-moving river which often floods its banks and shuts down a major thoroughfare when we have heavy rain.
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