Our first-thing-in-the-morning chore every day is scooping the poop in the dog yards after we let the bossy little dears out to do their business. We used to put the, um, "material" in trash cans and then haul it once a week to the compost yard in the Kubota utility vehicle. With the snow and ice we inevitably pick up along with frozen poop this time of year, those trash cans can get pretty heavy very quickly. And if we miss a week, they become very heavy. So Alayne started using a child's sleigh to haul her collection to the compost yard every day, rather than stockpiling it for a weekly move.
It took me a while to catch on (why are men always so slow to realize that women are smarter than they are?), but I finally realized she was on to something with this new transportation approach … and I adopted the same practice. So now I put my morning collection from the Widget's House yards in a bucket, load it on the sleigh, and pull it down to our house where the other dog cottages are … then Alayne adds her collection to the sleigh, and off we go to the compost yard. She got this photo of me pulling the sleigh down the drive in the ice-fog this morning. Low-tech but very effective!
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