Free Range Friday ~ Free Trees!

I have a lot of catching up to do. These items are important and time sensitive, so they get first billing!

Nadeen informed us, via Pam's list (and I just saw it this morning, so sorry!!) Go get a tree!

Trees arrive Friday early a.m......will be at plaza at Ferry Dock

donated by DNER Humacao....no charge...just promise

to plant them and make Culebra GREENER !!!

Sponsored by Recycling dept.

This is great information to have. Print it out and post it on your wall/fridge/bathroom mirror. These folks work hard, let's help make this work.

Sometimes, the view from where I am working makes it a little difficult to work. But this view is a little bit of why we want to keep Culebra as true to herself as possible. Clean, green, simple. There are plenty of places to go in the world if you want entertainment provided by humans; here, Nature has already provided her wealth. Our job is to keep it this way and not let humans destroy what has been so beautifully given. Not just the big bad developer sorts, but each person who goes to the beach, hikes the trails, walks the streets. That is, you and me. 

I never tire of this view, though every year it changes. Let's all work to make those changes good ones.

There is more, but because the trees are, if they are, literally arriving right now, unless this is for next Friday, a caveat I add because this is Culebra, I'll post again later today.

Edited to note: The trees did arrive! I'm not sure of all the kinds and there were not a lot (I was too involved trying to find out what kind they were and chatting with others there to get trees and forgot to take photos. Oops. They were in their pots in rings around the big tree on the Plaza. A good Arbor Day offering indeed! Thanks, all from Humacao and our own Recycling Department for making this happen.

In the meantime, do something good for where ever you live. You'll feel better, trust me.

The flip side of Paradox

Sighing here, because I hate making posts like this but...it's like anything you love, sometimes you just have to say, ok, here's an aspect that needs some work. And this is one, for sure.

People usually want to do the right thing, and try, but everyone and everything has to be working together! Here's the deal with recycling on Culebra, as far as I know. No glass anymore. Paper and plastic and tin only. Separated. Neatly boxed or bagged, flattened or tied together; you'll see why in a second.

That's our part.

The municipality's part is to provide enough bins for people to use. Right now, these are the only public bins to use (located on the road to the DRN building at the top of the hill past the graveyard - unfortunately, you can't miss it) and obviously, they aren't enough or aren't being emptied enough. Also, the design makes them very hard to use (and it doesn't help when the back end can be left open for things to fall out). Maybe we should scrap these and get some better ones. I bet some of that federal $ could be used for that...just guessing.

So if you are a recycler, bless you! Please try to stomp on those plastic bottles and put them in something so they don't roll/blow away. Filling up the valley with plastic bottles is not the goal you set out for, I know!

And to the municipality workers. I know it's a thankless job most of the time, but we need your help to do this right. Thank you!!

Recycling whelk shells? Huh?

Have a well-done Wednesday. Do something the whole way.