More Yard Work

Today started out with I checking if AHF had already refilled my prescriptions for the vacation. Turns out that the girl it told it on Monday hadn't told anyone about that. Well, it is not the first time that this particular girl screwed something up. Guess I should have gone with my instinct and checked with them on Tuesday. So I told my regular 'pharmacy guy' that I needed my prescriptions refilled for my vacation. He told me that he would get right on it and that I can pick them up on Friday.

Next Kenny and I headed out to Sylmar to pick up a thing called "The Bagster". It's a sturdy large bag where you can put in construction waste and a lot of other stuff... up to 3000 lbs and Waste Management will pick it up for a fixed fee. The price for the Bagster itself is fairly low about 35 bucks, but you about about 130 for the pickup... but that's still 1/2 of what you would pay for a construction dumpster.

Next we headed over to Valencia to have lunch at Islands. After that we took the back roads back to our house, since the I-5 was really congested. While driving the back roads we saw tons of stores we normally shop in, and neither Kenny nor I had any clue that the were there... and we've been living out there now for almost 1 year. So taking the back roads was definitely worth it.

By the time we got home I had a voicemail on my phone. I checked it right away and it was the pharmacy. That gave me a really bad feeling... so I called them back right away. Turns out that they just wanted to let me know that the vacation refill had been approved and that I can pick up my Meds on Thursday. I'm very happy about that.

Then Kenny and I went outside and filled the Bagster up with weeds. Then we dumped the contents of the Bagster in the trash bin. That almost filled the dumpster up. So I came up with the idea to jump into the dumpster and use my body weight to compact the weeds. That way only the bottom 1/3 of the dumpster was filled. Then we put all the clippings of the east facing slope into the Bagster and dumped it again... and I used the same method to compact the weeds as before. There is one downside to that way of compacting weeds: I'm getting too old for that. I'm just not 20 anymore and being 30 lbs overweight isn't particularly helpful either.

After that we took a little break. For the rest of the afternoon Kenny and I raked and filled the Bagster up with weeds and yard clippings. At 7 pm we were finally done. All the weed removal is done. Now we have just to figure out how we're going to dispose of the weeds... as there's no way that we can dump them all into the trash bin. Either we leave them for now and dump them over several weeks into the trash bin or we have Waste Management come out and pick the Bagster up. Not quite sure what we will be doing.