Subj : Packrats
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Jan 07 2024 15:43:07

Hi Dave,

 DD> Ours did the same - except our usual day is Wednesday. I use Waste
 DD> Management (because they're union) who e-mails me a "heads up" before
 DD> every holidays which changes their usual schedule.

 RH> I'm pretty sure we use those folks too. Town of WF contracts with them
 RH> and their fee is included in our water/sewer bill. The WF town web site
 RH> and local newspaper publish their holiday schedule but we can usually
 RH> figure on a week with a federal holiday, trash pick up will be a day
 RH> later. Green waste is usually picked up sometime during the week, after
 RH> the Monday holiday.

 DD> If you mean "recyclables" by "green waste" a separate company does

I should have said "yard waste" instead of "green waste" They're 2
separate groups; yard waste is branches, clippings, etc and green waste
is recylables. All are picked up by the same company; yard waste one
day, green waste and trash (separate runs, same truck) usually the next
day. Our recycle is co-mixed in the can and on the truck but in the
house I separate paper from cans, bottles, etc.

 DD> that on contract to the city. They also do regular trash/garbage
 DD> pickup but DD> in regular 'garbage' trucks. The recycling trucks
 have compartments DD> and there are different coloured totes for the
 resident to use. One DD> for old plastic bottles, bags, etc. Another
 for old newsprint and DD> cardboard and a third for metals.

 DD> The company also maintains a recycling center where they accept sorted
 DD> recyclables and buy aluminum cans for ca$h.

Those don't seem to exist around here; last one I remember was when we
lived in AZ.

 DD>      8<----- EDIT -----.8

 DD> season". At that time (early 1950s) most wives were "house" wives.
 DD> And they knew when they heard the iron wheels on the sidewalk that
 DD> I had just picked vegetables on offer at good prices.

 RH> Dad also planted cucumbers, only way Mom used them was in a mild pickle
 RH> (about half and half water and vinegar with a bit of sugar and celery
 RH> seed). Between his fussy eating an her non creative cooking, we were
 RH> fed but it wasn't until I went to college, then got married, that I
 RH> found out about a wider range of foods. Joining the echo here expanded
 RH> my cooking/eating horizons even more.

 DD> Sounds like "bread & butter" pickles.

Not really as there wasn't enough vinegar to make much of a pickle. B&B
pickles have more spicing to them as well.


 DD> Railroad dining car galleys are,
 DD> Here's another bread recipe. I'll be making this again tonight for
 DD> a potluck at my work tomorrow ...... well, one loaf. The other is
 DD> going to get turned into Reuben sandwiches at home.

 DD>       Title: Rustic Rye Bread
 DD>  Categories: Breads
 DD>       Yield: 24 slices

 RH> OK, my "standard" rye bread is the Pillsbury one, thanks to you digging
 RH> up the recipe for me. I know I had it for years, but probably in one of
 RH> our military moves it got thrown out or shredded with other papers.

 RH> Next day--correction, we use Republic for trash pick up. Used to use
 RH> Waste Management, have in other places but saw the Republic truck
 RH> today, across the street.

 DD> We have a choice of three companies. Waste Management, Republic and
 DD> the one which does the recycling programme, plus regular trash pick-up
 DD> and
 DD> is locally owned, Lake Area Disposal. Lake Area uses white trucks,
 DD> Waste Management uses green trucks and Republic's trucks are blue.

Republic does our regular trash, recyle and yard waste. IIRC, Waste
Management used to do the pick ups for the area but Raleigh (we're tied
into them for water, sewer and trash) changed contracters a few years
ago.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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