Views of the Neighborhood – Trash and Treasure

~ John W. Howell

Today, we are going to explore the neighborhood and check out what some consider trash. Is there treasure? You can decide. We are catered by Arlo Grey of Austin. Or entertainment is Mary Heather Hickman.

Menu

OLIVE OIL POACHED HALIBUT
cioppino broth, clam escabeche, kennebec potato, tarragon, baby carrot

BRICK HALF CHICKEN
sweet pepper puree, butterscotch squash, romesco, celery & pickled pepper salad

16 OZ GRILLED BERKSHIRE PORK CHOP
field pea, scallion & apple salad, sunflower seed, ginger pork jus,
TX summer squash

17 OZ PEELER RANCH WAGYU RIBEYE
crispy crepe, turnip, little gem, pickled mushroom, yukon potato, beef fat aioli

AG BURGER & SALAD
caramelized onion, pickles, mayo, whipped potato, greens
sub fries, add bacon

BUCATINI 
toasted corn sauce, black truffle, corn nut, chanterelle

MAFALDINI
champignon sauce, pearl onion, parmesan

CRISPY RICE
saffron aioli, crab, bacon, cucumber, cilantro, haricot vert

Picture of an old time school bus

So Let’s go.

Good looking pool float chairs.

Aw, come on. A perfectly good chair,

Baby seat looks new.

A lounge chair. You do have to wonder what’s under the cover.

This looks like it will still work.

Okay a mattress might not be good used.

Kitchen sink.

An attic pull-down stairway. This might be trash.

Okay, more trash.

Nothing wrong with that dolly that a bit of paint and fresh rope couldn’t cure.

Just needs to stand up and a game of horse is instant.

Plastic wrap headboard. Just waiting for a bed.

Time now to enjoy the food and music. I hope you have a great week.

&

 

78 thoughts on “Views of the Neighborhood – Trash and Treasure”

  2. When I tore our attic stairs out, John, I used a dolly like that to wheel them into the garage. They now hang in my shop and provide access to the storage about the garage.

    That pork chop sounds good, but maybe a little too much. I’ll go with the burger, and yes to the bacon.

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  3. I saw a number of things our local scavenger would immediately snatch up. He goes by about 3-4x a week.
    I’ll grab that Ranch Ribeye – extremely raw please.

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  4. Dear John
    Funny, not only we but a lot of our neighbours cleared out their houses just now and so our lanes show trash and goodies. We have hardly any people who will take those pre-loved stuff. So all goes to the local recycling centre and they try to sell stuff for a very low price but not that successfully.
    Have a happy week
    The Fab Four of Cley
    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

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  7. That happens a lot, people wanting to get rid of things, setting them out at the curb on trash day. A lot of times they’re not real trash, the people have upgraded, or their tastes have changed.

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  8. I’ve always thought it would be cool to have stairs like that in the garage to be able to store stuff up in the rafters and get to it easily with stairs like those.

    There’s a lot of stuff I thought would be good to FreeCycle. You know, ” One person’s junk is another’s treasure.” 😊

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  9. Once a month a different part of town gets the Mayor’s cleanup. Separate tires and paint cans but put out all your junk and the city will pick it up. It is kind of funny that as it gets dark, the slow headlights come down the street as people canvass the area looking for treasures on the curbside.

    I have two chairs to go. Trash.

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  10. That headboard should talk to the mattress down the street. Maybe they can form a gang. This is funny, because I just hacked out a micro fiction for Halloween based upon what a neighbor put out. I get the same vibe from one of your pictures, but wont say which here. Don’t want to spoil my creepy story.

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  11. We’ve been clearing out my in-laws house, sigh. We’ve been leaving things by garbage bins hoping others will get use out of them. (other things have gone straight into the bin) I love Mary Heather’s boots!

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  12. where I live anything put to the curb is gone in before the day ends and probably sold at a yard sale for parts. The menu is mouthwatering! Thanks for the tour , there’s certainly some interesting items. Have a great day. 🍁🍂

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      1. That’s the problem – people want to trash it and forget it. We have a really good place here run by an organization called TROSA, which is a business where addicts who are recovering their lives work. The people we’ve met dealing with TROSA are super, and we want to take our things there.

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  20. Interesting what people think of as trash. I’m not sure if this is still the case, but when my kids were growing up, you couldn’t donate car seats – no one would take them. Something about the plastic degrading over time and not performing…there should be a way to repurpose them.

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  21. The trash in our neighborhood doesn’t resemble the trash in yours. The scraps beside the trash cans aren’t worth a pause. 😄 Thanks for the journey, John. Have a great week.

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  22. I have a friend who was trying to deep clean his house and brought some of his things outside. Someone driving by stopped and started loading his stuff in their truck because they thought it was free.

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  26. I wish we had such clean trash around here.

    Still… that mattress would have gone in minutes, bed bugs and all.

    Lawn mower…watch out for your hands as you place it by the curb!

    Floating pool thingys – waiting for the trash collectors to come by. No pools in this hood.

    Although there was a sidewalk stabbing last week, just 2 doors down from me.

    Might have been a small pool there. The guy lived. (not kidding)

    Sigh!

    Still, I love living here. Go figure?

    🐂🐖 ⭕️❌

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