CUPUFU

Sandy City performs a major trash pick up service twice a year.  With the exception of hazardous materials, they will pick up any thing you pile in front of your house and take it to the dump.  Years ago it went by the acronym CUPUFU.  Clean Up Paint Up Fix Up.

This year the spring pick up was on Monday, April 13th.  I spent the entire weekend clearing brush and accumulated leaves off the “hump”.  The hump is a mound between our house and Josh’s house.  It covers a culvert that drains water from a cul-de-sac in back of us.

We clearly won the “biggest pile” contest on our street this year.  In the photo you can see the bags of leaves (at least 20) and the brush and branches that were removed.  There was also some detritus from the basement construction project.  All of the basement stuff disappeared from the pile before Sandy City showed up.  There are people who perform a useful function of salvaging recyclable materials from the trash piles.  We disrespectfully call them scavengers, while they should be called ‘recyclers’.

And this is a picture of the cleaned up “hump”.  It looks like we could make a pleasant area for some purpose under the trees.