Day 38 (Feb 7):
.42 lbs.
Again, not from the beach, but from along the shopping center at Gulf Blvd and Tom Stuart Causeway. Not spreading trash on my driveway for the picture today.
We didn’t keep anything for the (future) craft projects.
More people than I expected at beach on SuperBowl Sunday
Day 37 (Feb 6)
Absolutely nothing to pick up on the beach. And so little on our way back thru Gulf Blvd, hardly registered on our scale!
Clean Up Walk Day 35 (Feb 4): 2.02 lbs.
Day 36 (Feb 5): .55 lbs.
I shared with you that we are saving some of this trash for recycled art projects.
Another side hustle: aluminum can tabs. When we were walking on the beach on Inauguration night/sunset, we bumped into some of our friends toasting to the Biden Administration- and our friend Joan told us she is collecting the tabs for Ronald McDonald House. Now, when we collect cans on our clean-up walks, we are saving the tabs for our friend Joan (delivered by our friend Marilyn)
Always multitasking!!! (Back when Beanie Babies were a craze, one of my interns gifted me the octopus - as a symbol of how many things I was doing at the same time. That was when I worked at the White House. Some things never change!)
For more about Ronald McDonald House Tampa Bay, see https://rmhctampabay.org/
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| the tabs from the cans that we collect on our beach walk are going to the Ronald McDonald House |
Day 34 (Feb 3): .77 lbs. (Total for January: 194.01 lbs)
We have changed our route to include part of Gulf Blvd and First St, and that’s where we are getting most of our trash these days. Still saving it from going into those drains and preventing from washing out into the Gulf.
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| It was SO WINDY today! The videos are better than the still photos... |
Day 33 (Feb 1): .95 lbs.
So windy! We were almost blown away!
Check out the beach videos ... you can see the sand blowing towards us!
We had the beach to ourselves- just one guy fishing and another with a metal detector.
The bulk of what we picked up was along Gulf Blvd (our new thing is to incorporate Gulf Blvd and 1st St as well as beach)
Day 32: .66 lbs.
We’ve made walking along the beach and then along Gulf Blvd a part of our regular route. More trash along the street than on the beach. Tonight’s sunset included a wedding and live music at the Snack Shak.
Day 31 (Jan 29): 1.89 lbs.
Barely made it before it was completely dark. So walked home along Gulf Blvd, which has more litter in any case. Someone made a sand angel.
