one brown chihuahua near a yard with a cockle-doodle-doo
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darkoshiI'm trying to go for walks more often. So I've been taking a break from work before sundown, and walking around the neighborhood.
I smell weed while walking past several places. I wonder if it's that obvious to anyone else who walks by too.
There is much litter all over. Much is recyclables; beer cans and soda bottles and glass bottles. Lately, I've noticed more than the usual amount of beer cans in the area around my house too while picking up trash. I'm not sure whether to be mollified that it's not only my intersection where people litter so wantonly, or dismayed by the larger scope of the problem.
I feel like taking trash bags with me and picking up some each day, at least to clean up the places that aren't right in front of people's houses. I've thought about doing that before, but I felt self-conscious about doing it in areas that aren't even near my house, and then I stopped walking.
There's also a difference between walking for walking, and walking to pick up litter, and I'm not sure I want to make that switch. Maybe I ought to do it once or twice a week. Maybe one day to pick up recyclables and one day for other trash, to avoid the number of different bags I'd need to carry.
I might not get more than a couple blocks away from my house before the bags being full.
..
Wearing a face-mask while walking makes me feel more anonymous and less self-conscious, even though I know some of my jackets are quite distinctive. I think it's also less clear to onlookers what sex I am, which also makes me feel more comfortable.
When getting back from my walks, my eyelashes have tiny beads of water on them, from my moist exhaled breath coming out the top of the mask. (I had read that someone else, walking in colder weather with a facemask, had ice or frost form on their eyelashes.)
..
I read something funny earlier, like: "When friends don't call me, I take comfort in knowing that their computers are working well."
I smell weed while walking past several places. I wonder if it's that obvious to anyone else who walks by too.
There is much litter all over. Much is recyclables; beer cans and soda bottles and glass bottles. Lately, I've noticed more than the usual amount of beer cans in the area around my house too while picking up trash. I'm not sure whether to be mollified that it's not only my intersection where people litter so wantonly, or dismayed by the larger scope of the problem.
I feel like taking trash bags with me and picking up some each day, at least to clean up the places that aren't right in front of people's houses. I've thought about doing that before, but I felt self-conscious about doing it in areas that aren't even near my house, and then I stopped walking.
There's also a difference between walking for walking, and walking to pick up litter, and I'm not sure I want to make that switch. Maybe I ought to do it once or twice a week. Maybe one day to pick up recyclables and one day for other trash, to avoid the number of different bags I'd need to carry.
I might not get more than a couple blocks away from my house before the bags being full.
..
Wearing a face-mask while walking makes me feel more anonymous and less self-conscious, even though I know some of my jackets are quite distinctive. I think it's also less clear to onlookers what sex I am, which also makes me feel more comfortable.
When getting back from my walks, my eyelashes have tiny beads of water on them, from my moist exhaled breath coming out the top of the mask. (I had read that someone else, walking in colder weather with a facemask, had ice or frost form on their eyelashes.)
..
I read something funny earlier, like: "When friends don't call me, I take comfort in knowing that their computers are working well."