Shawnee County Solid Waste

08/28/2026

Great afternoon, our outstanding friends and followers!

If this is the first time you are seeing us, welcome and hold on, we will get there.

If this is the second time seeing us, welcome back.

For our awesome weekly followers, you are awesome. Big neck hug. 😙

We have a lot to discuss this week, so let’s get to it!

Disclaimer - Do not attempt to read this post while waiting in the left-turn lane because you will make some new “friends” and one of them might be a member of the Solid Waste Social Media team.

Man, this is the best time of the year. While it’s technically not the dog days of summer, it sure has that feel. The weather is perfect, the winds have calmed to nothing, the lovely cicadas are in the death throes of their mating season. And apparently we had a lunar eclipse last night which no one saw because they were in bed sleeping like normal people so they could get up and go to work this morning. And of course, the little nuggets have gone back to get some education.

Speaking of education...

Here at Shawnee County Solid Waste, we are all about education. Whether it is receiving or giving. Which we have been attempting all summer long.

But sometimes we can get educated as well irregardless of our physical maturity level.

For example, while visiting my favorite’ist dentist this week (who we won’t discuss how he broke his finger on his teeth-working-on hand) (Can you imagine trying to work on teeths when you have a splint on your finger?) it was brought up in a one-sided discussion (have you ever noticed that the dental crew always wants to have an open-ended conversation and ask you what your opinion is on the Treaty of Versailles when they have about 13 fingers up in your mouth? What’s up with that?) that you are not supposed to rinse after brushing your teeths.

Wait, What?

Yep, just brush and spit. Don’t rinse after brushing. 🤔

So here I have been doing it wrong all my life.

And apparently, it’s written right there on the tube.

Can’t really say that I have ever read the instructions on a toothpaste tube… I mean, well, not exactly bathroom reading material.

But for realz, it’s right there.

So yes, Ms. Kathleen, I haven’t been rinsing since our visit.

Now I just walk around for five minutes after brushing my teeth impersonating a cat with a hairball.

Which leads us to this week’s topic (see, I told you to hold on and we would get there), recycling!

Regardless of how you have done it in the past, it is never too late to do it the correct way.

All summer, we have gone thru what is accepted and touched on a few non-accepted items, and we will continue to do so until y’all have been recycled into submission.

Remember, the beatings will continue until morale improves. Or something like that.🥴

But seriously, how we started recycling back in 2012 is not how we recycle today. Processes change, markets change, commodity demand changes as well.

Remember that little tidbit of information that might not have been fully comprehended by all: Shawnee County Solid Waste is only the collector and transporter for both your trash and recycling.

We do not operate the MRF or the landfill.

Nor do we want to…

So please, gurgitate this next sentence:

We only recycle what WM wants to recycle!

Which is why we do not accept:

Glass,
Shredded paper,
#3,
#4,
,
,
Or any other silly stuff that will get kicked out.

So, let’s all play by those pesky little rules and, like Mr. Jagger said, “We can’t always get what we want”…

Anywhoz, moving on to our next topic!

Super big shout out and congrats to our favorit’ist local CBS affiliate news director for making the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame!

I reckon any time you make a Hall of Fame irregardless of what it is, it must be something special.

But play along with me for a second, could you imagine if our favorit’ist local roving reporter was emceeing the event?

It would be thirty minutes before any of us figured out who he was introducing.

Anywhoz, it’s Friday. It’s gorgeous out. It’s a Full Moon, and it is definitely time for the weekend.

So let’s get to your:

Weekend Safety Briefing!

The Standard 3Ds.

👉Don’t drink and drive.

👉Don’t do stupid.

👉Don’t even think about not paying attention if you are on the boulevard in the vicinity of the former banana wall art regardless of the direction you are going because remember that semi-truck driver that missed the two “take the detour” signs out east of town well he just took the scenic tour of Madison Street and now he caught all seven of the un-synchronized stop lights and he is over this town and he must be having an animated conversation with his dispatcher on his headset that he obviously purchased from the fast-food drive-thru headset surplus store and now he is waving his arms like his head is on fire and his tail is catching and he is making the right turn to get on the boulevard irregardless of what color of traffic light that is being displayed and you and your ’03 Altima with the two missing rear hubcaps, dented bumper, and cracked windshield are in peril. So pay attention! It’s not you, it’s everyone else.

Have a great weekend!
Be safe!
Be a good human!
Just take the detour.

PS - I see you. Keep going.🥰

PPS - If you want to be included on some of the unconditional love and free virtual hugs, make sure you give us a follow!

PPPS - Did you know that most of our summer chorus of cicada music is provided by regular ol’ dog-day cicadas and not the big broods that other states experience?

PPPPS - Yep, sure do know that “irregardless” is not correct. And yes, gurgitate is a word. Use it wisely.

PPPPPS - Nope, still do not know when Free Landfill Day is. You can ask, but we still don’t know.

PPPPPPS - Do the little moon people have to wear special glasses when they look at the Earth during a lunar eclipse?

PPPPPPPS - Please observe the photo of last night’s eclipse. Some artistic license may have been applied.

PPPPPPPPS - Love ya, Byeeee. 😘

08/26/2026

Some things in life are necessary.

Medicine? Necessary.
Toothpaste? Necessary.
Dental floss? Necessary.
Coffee Pods? Kinda Necessary.

Those little measuring cups, caps, tubes, and assorted plastic thingamajigs that come with them? Also pretty necessary.

But unfortunately, necessary does not automatically mean recyclable.

Take the items in today’s professionally shot photo, for example. All of these little plastic pieces are simply too small for our recycling system.

Even if the plastic itself might technically be a recyclable type, once an item gets this small, the sorting equipment has a hard time doing anything useful with it. Little items can fall through screens, get mixed in with glass and other residue, or end up in the wrong material stream.

A good rule of thumb:
If it’s smaller than about a credit card, it probably doesn’t belong loose in your recycling cart.

That includes things like:
👉Prescription bottles
👉Toothpaste tubes
👉Small plastic caps and lids
👉Dental floss containers
Small pieces of otherwise recyclable plastic

And please don't put the little stuff inside a bigger recyclable container thinking you have just created the perfect recycling plastic nesting dolls

You have not.

The machinery doesn’t care and it will not get sorted properly

The important lesson for today:
Recyclable material that is the wrong size is not recyclable in our program.

Because sometimes it isn't what something is made from.

Sometimes it's just too dang little.

Sometimes things just need thrown away.

Keep your recycling clean, dry, loose, and big enough for the equipment to actually sort it.

08/21/2026

G’day, mates! It’s a bloody ripper of an arvo, we’re knockin’ off after a long, hard yakka of a week, and the weekend’s finally rollin’ in.

TL;DR – Don’t litter, No Cuts, Be good.

You ever notice people speak funny overseas?🤔

Speaking of overseas… Let’s talk about our seas. And our land…

And it’s not your fault directly…
You didn’t cause it…
But you belong to the same Genus and Species as those not-so-good humans…

Yes, I am talking about that big wad of trash out there floating out there in the oceans. You know that innocent little piece of trash that gets tossed out. No harm, no foul, right?

But when a gazillion people have the same attitude, it ends up everywhere. we get what we have here today... Except it is out in the ocean.

And a great exhibit that highlights the floating trash disaster is the Washed Ashore exhibit that has been displayed this summer at five locations across the city.

All of the exhibits were constructed with materials that were collected during the ongoing ocean cleanup. They are not only educational but kind of neat to see. But, unlike the floating trash, they are disappearing pretty soon.

So if you need something to do this weekend, go visit them before they are gone.

For more info: https://topekazoo.org/washed-ashore/

So, pick up your dang trash. Don’t litter!
And if you do, there is a Lego with your name on it that I hope you step on.

And if you illegally dump… you are a not-so-good human.
And probably not a fine customer of Shawnee County Solid Waste.
Do better.

Anywhoz, enough of that.

It’s time for the weekend,
this week has been a bother,
so let’s get you safely thru the weekend with your 100% FREE

WEEKEND SAFETY BRIEF!

The standard 3Ds.

👉Don’t drink and drive.
👉Don’t do stupid.
👉Don’t even think about letting people cut in front of you as you are traveling northbound on Topeka Boulevard at 6th Avenue because at this point of the construction process everyone knows you are supposed to be in the left lane despite every orange detour sign being blocked by tree foliage until you are approximately ten feet away from it but there are a whole lot of sub-par human beings that are now drivers and they failed the kindergarten lesson of “No Cuts, No Butts, No Coconuts” and now want to go to the front of the line and bully their way into the appropriate lane of travel thus causing unnecessary backups and aggravation because as you know, you already have semis that obviously must be making “LOCAL” deliveries or they would have heeded the two signs that directed traffic to continue to I-470 instead of going downtown and it is obvious that your anxiety meds are doing their job wonderfully as you let two Jeeps, one school bus, and several SUVs cut right in front of you as you just sat there in a vegetative state causing everyone behind you to elevate their stress level to an mighty unhealthy level and one of those persons behind you might currently be experiencing a medical situation because they just had to have that salad for lunch three days ago. Yes, Mr. Silver Toyota. I see you. 🤬Do better, Topeka drivers.

Have a great weekend!
Be Safe!
Make good choices.
Bacon is still healthier than lettuce.
Please, take the detour.🙏

PS – I see you. Keep Going.

PPS - Homo sapien literally means Man Wise. Or translated, Wise Man. I sometimes wonder about that.🤔

PPPS - If you find yourself wondering if it is you or if it’s everybody else, it’s everyone else. Trust me.

PPPPS - PRCA Rodeo is going on up north this weekend. A summertime outdoor rodeo. Like they should be. If you attend, make sure you take a tree branch home with you.

PPPPPS - I know good and well that Solid Waste customers are great and awesome humans that would never illegally dump, litter, or try to cut in line.

PPPPPPS - Love ya, Byeee.😘

08/20/2026

On this week’s educational snippet, we have a little crossover-fusion type of lesson for ya.

This week’s highlight isn’t recyclable.

It’s not exactly trash worthy.

It is much gooder if it goes straight to the HHW without passing Go.

SHARPS.

Needles. Syringes. Lancets. Auto-injectors. Syringe pens. Basically, anything designed to poke a hole in you on purpose.

And before somebody says, “But the syringe is plastic…”

No.

That is not how any of this works.

Used sharps can seriously injure collection employees, landfill workers, maintenance personnel, recycling facility employees, and really anyone who has to work on, around, clean, repair, or otherwise touch solid waste equipment.

Nobody should have to reach into a cart, hopper, conveyor, truck, compactor, or piece of equipment and unexpectedly play a game of “What the heck just stabbed me?”

Because besides the actual poke, needle sticks with somebody else’s used needle can mean medical evaluations, bloodwork, follow-up testing, and a whole lot of unnecessary stress.

And getting tested for Hepatitis'es 1 thru 7 for the rest of your natural-born life is just not cool.

Now, technically, sharps can be placed in the trash IF they are sealed inside a super-duper puncture-resistant container with a secure lid.

But…

Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean it is the best'ist option.

It is much gooder to bring them to the Shawnee County Household Hazardous Waste facility, 131 NE 46th Street, during regular business hours, where we can make sure they are disposed of properly.

So please:

👉 Place loose needles, syringes, and lancets in an approved sharps container or another sturdy, puncture-resistant container with a tight-fitting lid.

👉Keep the lid secured.

👉Auto-Injectors may be brought to HHW loose.

👉Do not put sharps in your recycling. Ever!

👉Do not toss loose needles, syringes, or lancets into the trash.

👉Do not use a grocery sack, cardboard box, or whatever other creative little container happens to be sitting nearby.

👉And Bring To The HHW!

So, to review:

Recycling? Absolutely not.

Trash in a proper puncture-resistant container? Technically, yes.

HHW? Much gooder.

Bring them to us.

Do not pass Go.

Do not collect $200.

And, most importantly, do not unexpectedly stab one of the Nice Solid Waste People or anybody else who has to deal with your trash.

08/14/2026

It’s Friday afternoon,

I’m about two and a half peach and crème energy drinks into it, and my hair is tingling, so let’s officially get this weekend started!

This is the absolute best’ist week of the year! Because, as you are well aware by all of your friends’ timelines, you little nuggets are heading back to the educational facilities to get some more of that there learning.

So here is your back-to-school PSA to keep you and your little tax deductions safe.

CliffsNotes version - Have some patience and put your phones down.

Look, we get it. There is nothing more aggravating than being behind one of our good-looking trucks as they are crawling down a busy road stopping at every house. Trust us, they do not like those busy roads anymore than you do. They’re just trying to do their job and get out of your way. That is why we ask everyone “Slow Down To Get Around”. In fact, there is actually a law and you can be cited for “unlawful passing of a waste collection vehicle”.

Another super dang aggravating thing is when you turn the corner and lo and behold, you find yourself on a school bus route with the bus stopping at what seems to be every house as you are attempting to make it to work on time. But comma, unlike one of our collection vehicles, you absolutely cannot pass one of them school buses when the stop sign is out. Yet, you see it all of the time.

Please, please, please, pay attention, and put your phones down.

Ain’t nothing so dang important that you need to drive distracted and put our little nuggets in peril. Plus, you’re gonna catch one of those driving awards to the tune of $400 (which should be much higher IMO).

So, pull your head out of your apps and focus on driving as you should be and have some patience.

Happy commuting and let’s have a wonderfully safe year.

Anywhoz, it’s Friday afternoon, I just finished my third energy drink, and now my fingernails have started itching,

So let’s get to your 100% non-taxpayer funded:

Weekend Safety Brief!

The standard 3Ds.

👉Don’t drink and drive
👉Don’t do stupid
👉Don’t even think about not putting your shopping cart in the corral where it belongs because if you just leave it out in the parking lot, the wind is going to grab it and blow it into the side of someone’s ‘03 Nissan Altima with the dented up front bumper, and two missing rear hubcaps and then the owner is going to get very upset because now there is a fresh beauty mark on the side but more importantly, you probably have your little tax deductions in tow and you just taught them that this behavior is acceptable and now you are raising them to be slightly below average human beings who grow up to do unacceptable stuff like passing school buses with a stop sign out and not recycling correctly and this whole downward spiral in life started because you taught them it was okay to leave a shopping cart out in the parking lot. All because you couldn’t walk 24 feet and put your shopping cart in the corral.

Have a great weekend!

Be safe!

Make good choices!

Be a good human !

Take the detour, any of them. Or just follow the semi, he knows where he is going…🥴

PS – I see you. Keep going

PPS – Slow down when passing those not-so-handsome mail trucks as well.

PPPS – If you need a lesson in patience, try 6th Avenue in the mornings.

PPPPS – Love ya, Byeee 😘

08/12/2026

Good Wednesday, my super good friends! (or whenever you are reading this)

School has not started yet so you are stuck with us one more week. We are still doing that recycling-learning thing, and today we need to talk about something that starts out perfectly recyclable and then is magically turned into something non-recyclable.

SHREDDED OFFICE PAPER. Or, from this point forward, SOP.

Why? Because we need more acronyms in our lifes.

So, we get it. You cleaned out a filing cabinet, found employee evaluations from 2007, a copier lease signed by someone who retired during the Bush administration, and that one inter-office memo that was never published for good reason. So naturally, you fed all of it to the shredder.

But once paper gets chopped into approximately 14 bazillion tiny strips, it becomes a whole different animal. Those little pieces are difficult to handle in the recycling process and have a remarkable ability to escape and go absolutely everywhere.

Think office-paper glitter. And much like actual glitter, once released into the environment, it will still be around when your grandchildren retire.

Now, we can already hear somebody:

“But it’s still paper.”
“If we put it in a clear bag…”

Yep. And if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas.

Unfortunately, recycling equipment does not operate on hopes, dreams, or what something used to be before you ran it through a cross-cut shredder.

So what CAN you do with your SOP?

There are actually several practical uses:

👉Packing material - Shipping something? Use it instead of buying packing filler.

👉Gift bag filler - Congratulations. You just made free crinkle paper.

👉Compost material - Plain, non-glossy shredded paper can provide some of the “brown” carbon material your compost pile needs.

👉Garden use - A small amount can be worked into compost or used beneath other mulch where it will not immediately relocate itself to Jackson County.

👉Fire starter - A little dry shredded paper can help get a fireplace or fire pit going. Emphasis on a little.

Now for some things we would NOT recommend doing with your SOP:

Dumping it loose in your yard because “birds might use it.” They will not.

Filling your coworker’s office with it while they are on vacation. A good HR decision? Probably not. A memorable HR decision? Absolutely.

Putting it loose in your trash wheelie. Please do not. Unless you want your trash wheelie bin to become a confetti cannon on collection day.”

Take it to Helping Hands Humane Society? Nope, they do not want it.

Stuffing it into your blue-lidded wheelie bin loose and saying, “Good luck. Thoughts and prayers.”

So before you shred that stack of paper, ask yourself whether it actually needs shredded.

If it does not contain confidential information, leaving recyclable paper whole is generally the better option. Plus, whole office paper is accepted all day long.

If it DOES need shredded, shred away. Destroy the evidence.

Because we do not need to know what happened at the 2014 Christmas party.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. And if you can, just leave the paper alone.

08/07/2026

Happy (insert time and day) good people of Shawnee County et al.!

Please insert your own time and day because that would be pretty presumptuous of us to think that we have you conditioned to check in on the good ol’ Solid Waste page at a specific time and date. Shoot, we are still trying to train everyone to read the holiday calendar.

Let’s see the Headlines happenings for this week in this big ol’ world.

There was a National Anthem “sung” at a game that is getting some serious airtime.*

And a rocket crashed into the Moon.

And we are wrapping up the dog days of summer.

And this is the last weekend for aquatic activities in the County’s outdoor natatoriums.

And we had an election…

Congratulations to those who won, and whatever the appropriate thing is you say to those who didn’t win.

Good effort?
Thanks for playing?
Better luck next time? 🤷‍♂️

But while we’re on the subject…

POLITICAL SIGNS DO NOT GO IN YOUR BLUE-LIDDED WHEELIE BIN.

The sign itself can usually be repurposed for something, and that little wire stake thingy can absolutely be reused.

Campaign sign today.
Garage sale sign tomorrow.
“FREE KITTENS” next spring.

And oh, one final thing that DID NOT happen this week.

The Shawnee County Solid Waste Social Media Team has not been informed by WM as to when the postponed Free Dump Day is going to be rescheduled.

Man, y’all are consistent in being persistent. Seeing as how we are persistently answering the consistent question every week. And if I was consistently persistent like that as a young’un, I’d have gotten mollywop’d upside the back of the head.

But we don’t partake in mollywopping around here, so we just patiently explain that the WM-sponsored Free Dump Day has not been rescheduled since WM’s Free Dump Day was postponed. Trust us, when we find out, we will let you know. Loudly.

Anywhoz, enough of that.

It’s gorgeous outside, it’s still summertime, and it’s definitely 5:00 somewhere.

So let’s do this…

Your non-copyrighted, free-to-use:

Weekend Safety Brief!

The Standard 3Ds:

👉Don’t drink and drive
👉Don’t do stupid
👉Don’t even think about breaking into the pools after they are closed with 14 of your best friends to perform midnight aquatic activities because you failed to realize that the 10 or so cars that y’all left in the parking lot are a dead giveaway of your nefarious aquatic activities and then the next thing you know you will be visited by the local constable that has nothing better to do at 0-dark-30 and then when the chance presents itself you will make a break for it and run thru the park at a speed resembling Usain Bolt only to find that water spigot that is sitting there at knee level minding its own business and you go flying butt over teakettle and now your foot is tore to pieces, your clothes are grass-stained and you are trying to figure out how to get home with your car under LEO surveillance and you end up blowing curfew and by the time you get home, your parents already know. Congrats, you are grounded.

Not that any of this has ever happened.👀

Have a great weekend!
Be safe!
Make good choices!
Be a good human!
Just take one of the many indicated detours!

*still better than anything I could sing to be honest.

PS – I see you. Keep going

PPS – For like the 3rd week in a row, it is still healthier to eat BBQ than lettuce.

PPPS – Man, if that dang rocket causes the Moon to crash into Earth, I’m gonna be pretty upset.

PPPPS – Love ya, Byeee 😘

08/06/2026

Good Thursday afternoon, my super good friends.

It’s Thursday, it’s still summer time, and we are still doing some of that recycling learning.

We went thru all the good recycling stuff. Now, let’s look at some common items not accepted for the recycling afterlife.

Today’s recycling lesson is about those clear plastic clamshell containers commonly used for:

Salad
Berries
Bakery items
Produce
Takeout food

Even though many of them have a recycling symbol stamped on the bottom, clamshell containers are not accepted in your blue-lidded recycling cart.

And before someone says, “But it has a #1 on it,” here’s the problem:

1. Not all clamshells are truly the same type of plastic. Some are (PET) and some made from a mystery mixture of different resins and other materials that look similar but do not process the same way.
2. Ain’t no one got time to go looking for the blurry deformed little triangle buried under an ingredients label.

To the average person, they all look like clear plastic.

To a recycler, they can be a mixed-up plastic mess that nobody wants.

Clamshells can also flatten, stick together, and create problems during the sorting process.
So, when the strawberries are gone and the cookies have mysteriously disappeared, the empty clamshell container belongs in the trash.

Plastic bottles and jugs – Good!
Plastic clamshell containers – Bad!

And just remember, washing it six times, peeling off the label, and burying them deep inside your blue-lidded wheelie bin will not make it recyclable.

08/04/2026

Primary Election Day 2026!

Do your civic duty and make sure your voice is heard.

And no, the prohibition on zipper merging is not on the ballot, but don’t let that stop you.

Get out and vote!

07/31/2026

Well, well, well.

Lookie here, lookie here.

Friday afternoon done snuck up on us.

TL;DR – It was hot, Get rid of your HHW, Vote.

Truth be told, the Solid Waste Social Media Team has been slacking this week, and in the spirit of job preservation, we have nothing to discuss. So, we’re going to keep this one on the short side and give the Gen Zs a break…

But first, man, sakes alive, last Saturday was ridiculous.

I know the “official” heat index was 122* but lemme tell ya, I trust that reading as much as I trust my dog to guard my hamburger. My little ‘ol handy dandy not-cheap un-official weather station topped out at 137* as did probably every other privately owned weather station in the entire county. But what do we know…

Now, if you have been following our little page for a minute, you know good and well that the social media team is a huge fan of hot weather. But yeah, when you have to chew the air to breathe, yeah…. No.

And then, we had a full moon mid-week. Like we could tell… are we sure Mercury is not in retrograde as well??

And people are still eating lettuce.
Then, well…you know.

Anyway, combine all that foolishness and things can get hazardous.

Speaking of hazardous.
Let’s talk about the Household Hazardous Waste Facility for a minute.

We may be biased, but we’re pretty sure we have the best HHW facility in the State of Kansas.

Not the biggest,
not the fanciest,
not newest,

but by far, the best. Yeah, we see you over there, JoCo, Olathe and Sedgwick County.

Our little HHW facility accepts all of the regular HHW, but wait, there’s more.

They also accept:
Sharps
Lithium-ion batteries
Fluorescent tubes
Electronic waste
V**e pens
Used motor oil
Used antifreeze
Used cooking oil
Small metal items for recycling
Tires (Don’t get me started on the tires.)

And we do not need to do those silly special collection events because we do all of this every single day, five days a week, for every resident of Shawnee County, to include those rapscallions from Jeff Co that sneak in doing 15 mph under the posted speed limit.

They also sell blended latex paint in a “variety” of colors for just $10 per five-gallon bucket.

And yes, “variety” is a color...

They also keep the reuse racks stocked with a variety of products that you can take home, use and keep for free.

And because tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month, the HHW facility will also be open from 9:00 a.m. until noon.

All household hazardous waste is accepted free of charge.
The only fee is for CRT televisions and monitors, which are $40 each, card only.

Please remember that recycled paint is not sold during Saturday collection events.

For more information, call 785-286-4381 or visit:
https://www.snco.gov/sw/hhwaste.php

Now, if you’ve got that big ol’ pile of paint, stain and varnish sitting in the garage because you’re definitely going to use it “someday,” remember the words of Mr. Fogerty: “Someday never comes”

So let us help you out and take it off your hands. Because trust us, someday never comes.

Switching topics…

We have a big ‘ol election coming up Tuesday and against the better judgement and the advice of the HR department, my favorit’ist attorney, and just about anybody else with common sense, we are gonna offer you some voting tips.

👉Vote YES to eliminate the twice a year time change and keeping Standard Time permanent.

👉Vote YES to make unlawful any resemblance of a zipper merge. Anyone attempting to race to the front of the line will receive an automatic six-month sentence picking up litter from the median.

👉Vote YES to officially proclaim Shawnee County Solid Waste the No. 1 municipal solid waste collection service in Shawnee County.

Make your vote count. Then reward yourself by not arguing with strangers on the internet.

Anywhoz, it Friday. It’s summer time, and it’s going to be a gorgeous weekend. So let’s get this weekend started with your:

Weekend Safety Brief!

The 3Ds
👉Don’t drink and drive
👉Don’t do stupid
👉Don’t even think about complaining about this hot weather because regardless of how hot it is, it is still better than any day involving snow because before you know it snow will be flying and we will have air-that-hurts-your-face type of weather and then you will be asking dumb questions like “how are the roads” and “Why are we having school” and then you will go outside to warm up your ’03 Altima with two missing rear hubcaps and a cracked fender and while it is warming up it gets stolen despite being warned by everyone that is alive not to leave your car running unattended and now you have to walk to work and it is colder than well digger’s left foot. And suddenly summer doesn’t seem bad. Drink water.

Have a great weekend!
Stay safe!
Make good choices!
Be a slightly above average human
Just take one of the offered detours.

PS – No, Free Dump Day has not been rescheduled. Don’t even ask.

PPS – Remember, we don’t talk politics up in here. If you feel the urge to discuss politics on this page, go ahead and click the little “X” in the upper-right corner of your browser window. We don’t want to hear it. Nobody does.

PPPS – Look, recall all the lettuce you want, but you mess around with a bacon recall and we ain’t having that.

PPPPS – Love ya, Byeee.

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