It doesn’t get much better then this! Seriously though when the Carpenter asked me recently if I wanted to accompany him to dump a trailer of construction debris for a project we just completed… I thought hmmmm. Sure.
I’ve only been to one dump in my life and it was up in New Hampshire years ago. The only dumps I’ve seen since are on the Discovery Channel show’s Alaska Bush People and Alaska the Last Frontier. I thought this could be fun.. who knows what I’ll find?
Well we pulled up to Twin City Refuse & Recycling and I exclaimed.. “where is the dump?” This is not a landfill dump! No huge mountains of trash. No rusted cars or refrigerators scattered around. It is a small privately owned business located on the edge of downtown St Paul, and is at the base of a stone cliff. While waiting in a short line (that was lucky) I saw the scariest thing (this is why the Carpenter asked me). The cliff had a cave opening (at truck level) in it, and there were items in the door of the cave. Scary items- a wicked stuffed bobcat, a stuffed fox, and someone’s large plush black bear toy laying in the leaves- looking very dead.
Back to the waiting in line…. after the dump owner looked over our debris, and decided he didn’t want any of it (he looked at everything people hauled in and kept what he personally wanted… ) he then directed us to a big concrete wall against the cliff. The Carpenter backed up and we got out and started tossing the construction debris against the wall. A big scooper continually scooped up to the wall and then dumped the trash into a waiting tracker trailer to go to a real landfill.
It would have made a good Halloween date! All anyone would have needed to do is yell “boo” at me or run through the cliff trees in a clown outfit… or better yet.. peer out of the cave opening at me. I shudder just thinking about it. I never did like Halloween.
