The March 28 Saturday morning temperature was in the thirty’s, but at least the sun was coming up. The three of us, David Moore, Vic Farrow, and myself were in good spirits as we pulled stuff out of my garage onto a flat-bed trailer. The activity was helping us get warm. Vic and David  had already loaded the borrowed trailer Friday night with seven doors, a TV Set, fence pickets, scrap wood, and a twin mattress from another Gatlinburg resident. Out of my garage we loaded even more scrap wood, metal pipe, several half-empty gallons of latex paint, a door, a wood palette, and an armful of curtain rods. I was so glad to be getting rid of this stuff!

The occasion was Pflugerville’s twice-yearly City-wide Cleanup Day when citizens are  invited to bring their junk, especially large items like tires, broken furniture, and metal or recyclables like electronics, batteries, and paint to a central location across from Brookhollow Elementary on Railroad Avenue. Continue reading Gatlinburg Collects Junk for City-wide Cleanup →