I have a really good reason for procrastinating going to bed this morning. Seems I have a little job to do right before bed. But first, because I'm trying to be a good blog pal, I am going to tell you the ridiculous details about why I am getting ready to clean up a bag of trash that was torn up inside my garage by stray and wild animals. :-)
You see, it's like this... there are a lot of animals around here. Cats, ducks, deer, raccoons, moles, armadillos, lizards, snakes, and no telling what else. The cats and the raccoons like to knock over trash cans and tear open garbage bags. Little shits. I keep the full trash bags in the garage until it's time to take them outside for collection. Sometimes I open the garage door, sometimes the garage door is left open with carelessness, and sometimes it 'bounces' on the way down and stays up a crack. This is a crazy house, so it doesn't do me much good to lock the place down that completely for the night until everyone else is getting ready for bed. To combat the problem of the animals tearing up trash in the garage, I built a bin under the work bench and secured it with baby gates. There are no gaps and no animals can get in there. My husband keeps a lot of junk and work stuff in the garage. He brought home mini-bikes this weekend and... he blocked my bin with them. I didn't feel like lifting those bikes off of the bin to get the trash in there, so... I just set it down in the garage. Little shits. They came right in and tore it up. There was a trail of trash leading back outside. They tear it up at the curb, too. I don't know what to do to stop them. I need to find a way to make the trash unattractive to the local wildlife. I don't think they're going to grow hands and start cleaning up after themselves.
I hate the thought of putting out the trash now. I cleaned out some drawers. That could get embarrassing. You know those old and raggedy panties that end up in the bottom of the drawer just in case there is no time to do the laundry? Well... they're in the trash. I can just imagine the neighbors leaving for work. "Honey, why do you suppose the neighbors have torn up panties on the lawn?" "No telling. Those people are weird."
Damn it. Humans are supposed to be at the top of the food chain, but I can't even keep the animals out of the trash. I feel a little dumb.
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lmao!
ReplyDeleteRats tear up our bin-bags. Get hubby to move those damn bikes. Or get a wheelie bin.
I'd laugh, but that's not funny around here either. Kahless, we have a wheelie bin and something still manages to knock it over. Not kidding. It could be stray dogs, but even so--it's difficult to imagine an animal (short of a rhino or something) being able to knock one of them over, but something does. ::shrug::
ReplyDeleteOh, and Lynn--if you think of a way to combat those garbage-thieving nuisances, let me know, okay? Because there are a lot of us who--holy sh**, no wonder I can't get some nuisance animals under control--my darned cat Baby keeps walking all over the keyboard and adding her opinion! **#&$@@ PITA!
Hi, K. He did move the bikes. :-) He bought them for his business and sent them out to be refurbished, so they are gone for a few days. Then they will be back until he resells them, but they won't be in front of the bin. I think he will remember because he woke up early before I had picked up the mess and he saw what happened and he even cleaned it up for me. I'm beginning to think that the key to my family helping out around here is their awareness of my own interest. It seems they are willing to do more when I feel good enough to show a consistent interest. It doesn't seem to be a priority for any of them, but I think it's nice that it becomes one when they get reminded that it is important to me.
ReplyDeleteHi, Angel. Isn't it awful what the animals do? They make such messes for us poor, hassled humans. I do have a few ideas, Angel. I'm thinking of spraying the garbage bags with something that does not smell good to animals. I noticed that there was less mess when I was using tea tree oil on a skin problem and putting the towels in the garbage. My husband used to complain about the way that stuff smelled. One day he remarked that even our garbage smelled of it. I hate to use that because it is so expensive for such a purpose, but I'll do it if I have to. I guess they won't want the garbage if it smells bad to them? I have a very stinky old bottle of cheap perfume. It's truly nasty. I'm going to spray the garbage with it next time. If that doesn't work, I will use the tea tree oil. They're both very stinky. I'll let you know how it turns out.
They make trash cans with locking tops.
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It happened to me too, only there was "hygiene"-stuff in there... Oh the humanity!
ReplyDeleteHi, Enola. I've tried those, but I'm jinxed. The lids disappeared. I tried one with an attached lid, but it pissed off the trash collection guys. Besides, when I use cans, my family starts throwing messy things in there and guess who ends up outside with some bleach and a garden hose? Yep. That would be me. I've also had cans disappear from the curb. Jinxed. Completely jinxed. But it was very sweet of you to bring me a link. :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, Amanda! That is so embarrassing. I know just how that is. It happened to me, to. There was one stuck to the sidewalk in front of my house one morning after the animals tore up the trash. Those animals are starting to drive me crazy.