Why hauling trash by bike is difficult in New England in late Dec – let me count the ways:<\/p>\n
1. extra holiday trash:\u00a0 Amazon boxes, Amazon prime boxes, Amazon boxes. glossy gift boxes, toy boxes, tool boxes, wrapping paper, unflattened cardboard, boxes that won’t compact, and pop out of the recycling tubs on your trailer like a spring.\u00a0 Boxes that are icy and slippery.<\/p>\n
2. working in mittens (i.e. paws)<\/p>\n
3. wind, wind that blows away your boxes when they pop out of your tub.\u00a0 trying to pick up little slips of paper off the icy ground with mittens.\u00a0 Wind that freezes your eyeballs so you can’t see.\u00a0\u00a0 of if you wear goggles, goggles that fog up so you can’t see.\u00a0 but yay for vaseline, shea butter, bees wax, whale blubber, or whatever you can smear your exposed skin with.<\/p>\n
4. ice under your wheels, ice under your feet<\/p>\n
5. Xmas and New Years are on Mondays, so all of Monday’s pickups are delayed til Tuesday.\u00a0 backlog of trash and work.<\/p>\n
6. Coworkers out of town for the holidays, so the ones at home covering extra shifts.<\/p>\n
7. Shortest days of the year, daylight runs out at 4pm.<\/p>\n
8.\u00a0 snow.\u00a0 snow that falls and is followed by sub-zero temps that turn the treated snow on the roads\/bike path to a sandy,frozen-slushy consistency that packs up in your trailer fenders and causes constant drag.\u00a0 don’t bother knocking it off, it will pack back\u00a0 up in there within 15 feet.\u00a0 you’ll just have to stand up to pedal through what you’d be able to coast through in summer.<\/p>\n
9. temps from 10 below to 10 above, causing increased rolling resistance.\u00a0 (is it the energy needed for tire deformation as that part of the tire hits the pavement?\u00a0 frozen grease in all rolling surfaces?\u00a0 ice in you cables and chain and brakes?\u00a0 denser air?\u00a0 lower air pressure in tires b\/c you can’t pump them up b\/c all the pumps are frozen?\u00a0 all the layers of clothing and boots you’re working through?)<\/p>\n
10. compost that is frozen in buckets.\u00a0 pound and whack just the right amount to coax it out without cracking the bucket.<\/p>\n
okay, 10 complaints is enough whining.<\/p>\n
let’s enjoy the show:<\/p>\n
8:40 min: Lunchmoney Lewis with “Bills” (work work work!)<\/p>\n
15 min: Poking Pokey, my fears around giving a chicken a shot<\/p>\n
19:30 min: Buffy St Marie<\/p>\n
23 min:\u00a0 a special story from my dad Jim Woodring who has taken to answering the 8pm telemarketer calls with “Domestic Violence Hotline, Can I help you?”\u00a0 Someone\u00a0 needed help.<\/p>\n
28: Kwanzaa song<\/p>\n
32: Jasmine, poem about trees, shared at Int’s Women’s Day march 2017<\/p>\n
36: Mark Guglielmo (local musician) sings “Algiers Point”<\/p>\n
46: Jerry and Sylvia Johnson and Higher Help, will be performing at MLKDay event Jan 15th at Anchor House of Artists on Pleasant St.<\/p>\n
52: Cyndi Lauper sings True Colors<\/p>\n
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Why hauling trash by bike is difficult in New England in late Dec – let me count the ways: 1. extra holiday trash:\u00a0 Amazon boxes, Amazon prime boxes, Amazon boxes. glossy gift boxes, toy boxes, tool boxes, wrapping paper, unflattened cardboard, boxes that won’t compact, and pop out of the recycling tubs on your trailer … Continue reading #123: Winter clips and music<\/span>