Morning Jim!

 

Is he on this side of the mountains today?

 

He was in Weed Ca last night and is coming up I-5 today. He is having dinner with Liz (Snowbunny..) tonight in The Dalles, then coming over here tomorrow morning.

 

Donate them to a Parks Department. Dig a small hole that buries them 1/4 to 1/2 casing deep and then fill them with sand. Makes a great sand box.

Otherwise, are there any recyclers in the area? Places like R & B rubber in McMinnville that shred them up and make stall mats, truck mats, etc. out of them?

 

So he is heading up to P-town and over I-84?
I wish he had hung a right at Springfield and came over hwy 126-20, I could have met him in the turn-out in front of the property.

 

We already gave two away to the local child care facility. No recyclers around here, but we have free dumping at Waste Management. All dumping (including hazardous material) is free for county residents. This was a deal made when Wast Management wanted to open up their HUGE landfill here.

 

Send him a PM, he's on-line right now........

 

PM ed him, I did..........

I need to go into Springfield this morn, but should be around today.

 

Have a great day guys! Time for Harley and to head to the shop.....

 

Wish the idiot county commissioners here (at the time) would have made the same deal with Waste Management when they "gave" them the County Dump. Costs $14 for one bag or a pickup load. If it is more than a pickup load, they weigh you coming in and out with the charge based on weight. Tires are charged for each tire.

Waste Management around these parts are fighting dirty words for a lot of folks. Once they were allowed to take over our county dump, they turned it into a "regional" landfill (as opposed to just county & local) and contracted with a bunch of Portland Metro municipalities as well as others including up and down the Coast. They even "accept" Japan tidal wave debris! What's funny is the same Waste Management a year earlier (before "regional" designation & conversion) had fought tooth and nail to keep a "regional" dump, run by a competitor, out of Washington County saying there was no place in Western Oregon "fit" for a "regional" dump of that nature and that all regional and metro garbage should be hauled to their facilities in Arlington!

Now, the chip trucks you see coming south on the highway are loaded with Portland trash headed for the dump here and not chips headed for the papermill. What was supposed to last until something like 2035 is full. Now they are building "berms" along the highway, and from what I understand, along the river - in the flood plain - so they can expand it to hold more. The "canyon is full" and they have literally built a 500+ foot mountain, not so affectionately being called "Mount MacTrashmore" that is visible for miles.

A year or so ago I took the horse truck loaded with junk to the dump. Weighed going in and weighed coming out. $100! And there was probably only 2 to 2 1/2 pickup loads in it. Just used it to save some extra trips. Lesson learned and that won't happen again! We can dig some awfully big holes on the farm for that much!

O.K., done ranting...........

 

Morning Oregon, Heading for Forest Grove and Hillsboro, have a safe day folks.

 

Have a safe drive Chris. If you're taking 26 I hope it is better than 18 and 101 was yesterday. What a flipping zoo!

 

Belated good morning Oregon FTE gang and friends.

Been up for hours working on stuff I haven't been able to get done during the week.

Just in for some late breakfast then back out to get more chores done. Dinner tonight with my parents... Prime rib, salad and potatoes.

 

Afternoon gang. I got the inside of my truck cleaned and the door jams wiped down.

My daughter and I washed her car and my wife's too.

Prime rib is in the oven and baked potatoes too.

Time to get cleaned up and relax.

 

We are BBQing out on the deck, hamburgers and pork ribs tonight.........
Nothin' but the sound of the river, wind in the trees, and occasional car going by.
Life is good.............