Its been a tad windy the last few days , no casualties here just a single planter that blew over , it was coming from the right direction for a change, the huge farm buildings sheltered us and apart from not a lot of sleep because the sycamore was pebble dashing us with its keys its all been fine. Its done a fair bit of damage to trees but nothing much here at all .
Highlight of the day a young rat on the doorstep , last week he was spotted on the birdtable , so i stopped feeding the birds and hedgehogs . Old cat is wandering round very smug , she has always been a good ratter and still managed to have this reckless youngster despite being doddering . Our other cat has no interest in rats she specialises in mice which she eats and leaves the tails and kidneys on the doorstep. Old cat seemed quite upset when i shovelled her big game into the bin and that triggered another thought . Which recycling bin should it go in ? Our food waste cannister? after all you put chicken and chop bones in that, or does he go in the general waste? Recycling these days is just to complicated
My old cat was a good ratter and when he brought home his prey I gave them a 'sea burial' over the cliff.
ReplyDeleteAs I live in the middle of nowhere, it is very much up to me sort out all waste. I used to compost all food waste, bones etc, also mice. Then I uderstood my dogs will find chicken and pork bones and eat them, when I used the compost to feed my veggie patch, and they might break to too sharp splinters and break dogs' guts. So now I burn all bones. (We have several fireplaces, a wood burning stove, sauna stove and a fireplace). Ashes then can go to veggie patch. If my cats (well, when we had the riesenschnautzer he did hunt, too) bring in a big game, I just toss it to the other side of our gates. They usually get eaten by foxes, raccoon dogs or crows.
ReplyDeleteBut sorting trash/waste is a bit of a task nowadays. We have packacking waste sorting (by law); glass, plastics, cardboard and metals (any metal, not jsut packaces). Then compost of course. Batteries are recycled separately, as well as small electrical appliances, ink cartridges, all different sorts of "light bulbs". And of course paper (but only newspapers, office papers, magazines etc, paper bags go to cardboard...). Empty bottles and cans are recycled, you get money (0,10€ to 0,40€ depending on the size of the bottle). Then there's rags, which go to another recycling bin. (rags=textiles that cannot be reused in any other way).
So my general waste bin gets emptied once a month, and it is usally half empty.
AND then there's old meds that needs to go to pharmacy, dangerous waste (chemicals, leftover fireworks etc)...
Yeehaw!!!