Trash

Interesting what you pick up along the highway. Cigarette butts, mostly—disheartening because this part of New York has had fire advisories in place throughout the summer and fall due to near-drought conditions, which have dried up all the grass. It's depressing how many morons ignore reasonable precautions. Like I don't care if you smoke, but don't set the world on fire because you're jonesing for a nicotine fix.

People like to toss beer cans and fast food wrappers out car windows. Less frequent are the glass flasks of the hard core boozers. We found a couple of condoms. (I like to think they were filled with rainwater run-off.) A set of keys. Someone also deliberately or inadvertently tossed a full dossier of court documents—they were scattered over about half a mile and mostly reduced to pulp, although you could make out occasional words, complaint... allege... Docket No: 4329...

We found a lot of bones, too, but since none of them looked to be human, I refused to touch them. I figured they were biodegradable.

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It's been windy. Very, very windy. The wind pokes the occasional hole in the thick cloud cover but those holes fill up quickly. The wind kinda spooks me. I'm not sure why.