Grateful

Thanksgiving has passed. It is now December 1, but it’s never too late to be thankful, especially on a day like today. I walked outside this morning after a long night of thunderstorms and showers. My whole front yard was full of rain puddles, soggy and muddy grass. To my great surprise, not only was it wet and muddy, there was trash littered all over my front yard. My lovely canine companions decided that tipping over the trash can was going to be their new hobby. As red lines filled my sight, I calmly and patiently walked over and began to pick up the trash. This nuisance of a task that I found myself indulging in, involuntarily I might add, forced me to think about how grateful I was for our garbage company. If we didn’t have an organization that came by and gleefully carried all of our trash on a weekly basis, where would we put it? I know in my household, we accumulate trash on a DAILY and we take it out to the big trash cans every day. But where would I take the trash from inside the house once it was filled if we didn’t have the blessings of a garbage company to come pick up on weekly basis? My backyard? Could you imagine how filthy and dirty our streets and houses would be? Filled with critters, unwanted pests, and our homes surrounded with the dreadful smells, stench, and varmint invested critters? I think of how awful it must’ve been prior to a solid waste management company, and I’m so thankful for this endeavor to have been established during my lifetime! I could not imagine having to keep my trash on my property or hulling it over daily or weekly to a dump. I don’t know about you, but I’m so very grateful that I have this service available to us. The next time I want to complain about their prices increasing, I’m going to remember how they are creating a service I could not manage on my own. Thank you to all who are providing services that make our lives cleaner, healthier, and more convenient! Let us not forget they are a necessity so let’s treat them with kindness and gratitude!