Sqwertz wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:19:35 -0500, cybercat wrote:
>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:33:36 -0600, Janet Wilder wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You just don't throw away food 3-7 days early in the Texas heat.
>>>>> Plain and simple.
>>>> I do. The can is outside and the lid is closed. We don't smell it. It's
>>>> the trash company's can. I let them worry about it.
>>> Until the bags swell up and burst, spreading germs and stinky
>>> liquid goo all over the inside of the trash can, which the City
>>> doesn't wash out for you. Not to mention those black turkeys
>>> flying in circles over the house.
>>>
>>> No thanks.
>>>
>> Damn, Steve, how long is it between garbage pickups?
>
> 7 days. Which is 5 days too many 10 months out of the year in
> Texas.
>
> -sw

My pick up is weekly, too, and I'm betting I'm way farther south than
you are (RGV-Harlingen). Closest neighbor has a big family so the trash
company gave him a dumpster that he leaves at the bottom of the long
access road to his house. No birds. No coyotes. No feral dogs or cats.
Jack rabbits can't jump *that* high.

Janet, posting from an area known as a "World Birding Center" <g>

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