Peter Mealy is about 68 years old. His daughter is 8. He is a musician and retired around 60 years old. His second daughter is about 6. Amazingly kind, friendly, inviting, and open, Pete is also creative. In his backyard, he designed a play/tree house for his two daughters. It has a ramp with slats to crawl up a downstairs door and room...and an upstairs with a slide. It is really entrenched in a bush, more like a bush house.
I saw him last night just after 9pm. Why? Well, there is this dumpster in front of our house. It's been there since the wrecking crew showed to take down our back porch, November 20, 2018. So, it has managed to accumulate quite a number of items, not inclusive of our former back porch. Such items include, siding from Lisa (just moved in...her sons were cleaning up her yard), springs of scotch pine from someone's Christmas decor, a big green pot 18 inches in diameter, two umbrellas (from Stephen Craig...around the corner; he brought us a 6 pack for the inconvenience), and a bunch of doggie poo bags. So, this dumpster is amassing mass, daily.
Just after nine post meridiem, Pete drummed up some guilt when our front porch lit him up, caught in the act. He was dropping some big board in there. He admitted to already piling in some brush, dead branches of sorts. And he asked, "Am I not supposed to put stuff in here?" Well, the guilty feelings you're getting are telling you, Pete, "no!" That he asked meant that he knew already. He lives up the street and can certainly find another means to drop his crap off at the actual dump. Niki and I both felt a bit bad for calling him out, but I am positive that he had already discarded some scraps before. I mean, this is in the dark...stuffing trash in our dumpster, the one we are paying for, incognito, is just wrong. Why not ask? Why not do that during the day? Well, probably he could get that done on his own with his own car. Typically, I will ask Matt if he is going to the dump and if I can drop crap in his truck. So, if the pot or Christmas pine branches are from him, I don't care. If Greg dumped trash in there, well, he helps us by holding our honey bee frames in his freezer. Steve helps by fixing my bike on occasion. So, what is different with Peter Mealy? He did it under the darkness of the night and, usually very considerate, did not consider that we pay for more dumpster space as this one fills and another arrives. Man, I could not believe that it was him and that he asked, "What? Should I not put stuff in here?" Or something to that effect.
Ok, in other news the IB year 2 kids are supposed to be completed with their IA, rough draft. I am sure to hear more from parents as they submit that tomorrow for good. They have had since before Christmas break to finish this, and many days in class have been dedicated for it. Procrastination and switching research questions have really taken their toll. Oh, well, I gotta critique them now.
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