November 7th Highway Cleanup

[Rightwinger]

Hey Lagerhead, I found your modesty in the bed of my truck, you wanna come get this thing? Was wondering why my MPG's had dropped to 3.

LOL

[56FordGuy]

I'm glad some of you finally got to meet me. It's a shame how many go through life without such a privilege.

Seriously though, despite the cold, which disappeared quickly after about 100 yards of bending down, standing up, rinse, repeat, it wasn't bad. It took us about 2.5 hours from the time we met in the parking lot until we got back, plus a few more minutes of flappin' our gums afterward.

I'd like to say thanks again to Joe and Hero Gear for the vests. The extremely high vis yellow kept us visible, well from space basically.

See you guys again in a few months, if not sooner.

Hopefully next time there will be less bending down, I'm looking for a reasonably inexpensive source for those grabber stick things. Another big thanks for Joe and Hero Gear for the vests from me as well. I saw the vests that TDOT has for most of their volunteer groups, and they were near the quality (or cleanliness) of the ones he provided us with.

I took the signs and extra trash bags back to the DOT office today, and told the lady that our cleanup was complete. I drove by the stretch of road a few hours later, and they had already picked up the pile of garbage we collected.

We're required to do 4 cleanups per year, basically one every three months. Unless our stretch of road just gets really awful, it looks like the next one will fall sometime around February or March.

[Rightwinger]

Good...will still be cool. And snake, tick, chigger, spider, zombie free. I'm calling out dead for the summer one now...hate the heat.

[Mechanic_X]

Already see some trash on it. Maybe we need to post a guard?

[gregintenn]

Thanks to all of you guys. You are doing a good deed, and representing gun owners in a positive light. You can't beat that.

[Trekbike]

Already see some trash on it. Maybe we need to post a guard?

We might be able to deter some trash throwing by modifying our sign to something like this...

[NashvilleStage]

Hey guys! I'd love to help out on the next cleanup.

Has the next one been planned yet?

[56FordGuy]

Hey guys! I'd love to help out on the next cleanup.

Has the next one been planned yet?

No. It looks like our next cleanup will be sometime around February. I plan to start a thread and nail down the details sometime after Christmas. Hope you can join us!

[NashvilleStage]

Hope you can join us!

Looking forward to it.