More - after the move, part 2

10 years ago

Spring Hill is about 3.5 miles from the Gulf Coast. Yesterday, I spent several hours doing things in the yard. What has puzzled me a bit is the the lack of loamy soil. If one digs down about .25", it is all sand. I did not dig more than 6", but all I found was sand.

The woman who lived here had two beds that were not appropriate for us. I asked about what to do with the mattress and box springs and was told to put them at the curb. The regular garbage folks took them. That is unusual for me. Also unusual is that they take only #1 & #2 plastics and refuse to take glass! Coming from a large university community, where almost everything is recycled, I found it strange.

We are down to about 5 boxes to unpack. 3 of them are cookbooks and recipes. I tried to sell some of them prior to the move, but no one wanted them. Our kitchen is about half the size of our previous one, so space for cookbooks is nil. I haven't figured out what to do in this situation.

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anneliese32
10 years ago
A friend who retired in Florida said he had the choice between planting succulents and container gardening and it took him about 10 years of composting to plant tomatoes in soil.

Is there a Goodwill or similar organisation which would have picked up beds? Weird that they will not even recycle glass.
rob333 (zone 7b)
10 years ago
There a couple of places there that take recycling, i presume they're not a pickup kind of thing.
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jim_1 (Zone 5B)
Original Author
10 years ago
This house came furnished. We got rid of lots of items through the Habitat for Humanity Restore. We made a couple of calls and no one was willing to take mattresses and TVs.

The garbage fee is a part of the water bill! What? When we signed up and gave them their blood money ($250 deposit), we were told that they did not have any recycling bins and that we should make do with whatever! Good grief! So, cardboard boxes it will be.

I did clean out the gutters yesterday morning. I found families of worms doing nicely there. For some unknown to me reason, most gutters are overflowing with leaves and twigs. Our community has rules for landscape and one is that every house must have one tree in front and one tree in back. If one dies and has to be removed, you have 30 days to plant another and there are very specific sizes that can be planted!