OK, so as you all know we live in Casper. I have to say it has been a total culture shock. First of all you would not believe the number of morbidly obese people you can see in this town. We have never been to the store without seeing at least two people with those automatic scooters that have to either use walkers when they aren't on them or a cane. It is rediculouse. Who knows if it is the wind that makes people not want to lead an unhealthy life or what. I just don't know why people choose to live like that because it is a choice.
Another crazy thing about Casper is the amount of garbage in peoples lawns. I actually think it is one of the dirtiest places I have ever seen. We noticed all of the garbage in lawns around town before we bought our house and always wondered about it, but left it at that. Then we bought our house. The guy had never cleaned up dog poop. The neighbors said he didn't mow once in 2 years and he used the back yard as a dump. Colin and I picked up 15 construction bags full of dog doody and a huge pile of garbage. There was old carpet back there along with other mystery bags of garbage. We weren't brave enough to explore and find out the contents of those bags. The man's dogs were living in an environment not fit for any living creature. Even the grass died. It was disgusting. Now both Colin and I just want to know how people can live like that. If you look from our deck into other yards it is a similar thing. Why don't people have a problem with it? By no means are we the cleanest people on the face of the earth, but we do have pride in our things. Days like today are especially frustrating because it is raining, therefore we don't have a yard, we have a mud hole. That means that every time the dogs go outside they are covered in mud. It gets old cleaning the pounds of mud off of their paws every time they come in.
These are pictures of our yard before we cleaned.
Here are pictures after cleaning and only one load taken to the dump. Notice the two large piles of garbage.
I will let all of you know when we finally get the yard finished. It is going to be a huge project, but hopefully we have it finished by the end of the summer. That way Jason will have a nice place to play and we will no longer have a mud problem.
So, that is the end of my how do people live like that session. Thanks for reading my vent. Till next time........ bye.
2 comments:
Looks much better already! Maybe it's all that wind that keeps people in their homes not exercising or cleaning their yards!
People here in State College are so smug that if a yard ever got like that they would probably run that person out of town!
It does look much better and if you guys let me know a weekend that you want to work on the yard, let me know and Jenny and I will be glad to come down, drink beer, and lend a hand.
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