Clipping Trip

Today's weight was 220.0 pounds even. 

I have a good record of getting out and walking everyday. Last week I walked five miles and I'm on track to make 7 1/2 miles this week.

For quite some time, I have noticed the various yards along my walk. You can tell the people who care about their house as opposed to those who don't.

I have noticed this one house in particular where the yard is very nice but the sidewalk is a jungle. They pay no attention at all to the weeds that grow out of the cracks of the sidewalk and from the curb.

Don't get me wrong. I'm in no position to make remarks about other peoples yards. I have brown spots and dead spots and lots of weeds that could be removed. But I do make an effort. My sidewalks are mostly clean and my gutters are pretty. Even the branches of the trees along the sidewalk are pruned back so they don't hang in the path of people walking by.

And that brings me to my main point of discussion for today. Branches that hang down in the path of the sidewalk.

On my morning walk today, I took along a pair of hand clippers and when I encountered a branch that I deemed as blocking I cut it and threw the branch in the yard from whence it came.

The sidewalk on my street is quite nice and no trimming was needed. But when I got to Euclid street, which is a block north of the park, I was quite active with the clippers. 

Some yards took a snip or two while others required some major pruning. On tomorrows' walk, I will check to see how many of the clippings I left behind got cleaned up.

Call me a sanctimonious sidewalk sheriff if you like, that is a badge I will wear.