few therapy sessions, I noted one aspect of the therapy for his condition, was to rest his weight on a large three to four foot soft ball and move around the therapy room while trying to maintain his balance. I thought this therapy to be absurd and preposterous as even I, in good physical condition could have easily fallen off of this ball and sustained an injury.
In the spring of this year, a dreaded problem with tenants had occurred. The tenants who had rented father in laws house telephoned my mother upset due to the fact that a skunk had apparently inhabited the basement of the house. Mother telephoned me with this problem and seemed aggravated with this situation. Partially because of this problem with the skunk, the tenants decided to vacate the premises. The security payment provided by the tenants upon renting the property was returned in full as the premises were left in good order. After discussing the difficulties of managing a property from a long distance, reluctantly spouse and I decided to sell this property. The house was sold shortly thereafter.
Beginning in the second half of the 1980’s, many towns and municipalities across the nation instituted laws and requirements regarding the recycling of materials initially to include only paper but in later years expanded these programs to include glass, plastic, and aluminum. I have for the most part been diligent in recycling these materials over the past twenty five years or so. During the late 1980’s and 1990’s, I became annoyed with restaurants that provided meals and left over meals in containers that were less biodegradable and not recyclable such as Styrofoam. In New York State, a deposit fee of 5 cents is added to each and every soda and beer bottle and can as a deposit and incentive for people to return these containers to the store of purchase. This procedure has created aggravation for many people who have very busy lives. Many people do not return these containers to the store but rather place these in recycling bins for weekly pick up hence losing their deposit money. In the State of Florida, a deposit is not charged on soda, beer, or any other recyclable containers. All recyclable materials are recycled by people in Florida that appears through my observations, to be at about the same rate of recycling participation as in New York.
One day while housekeeping, I glanced out of a window in the front of our home and viewed a small bulldozer truck carrying plenty of yard waste including stumps of trees and large branches. I watched the person driving this truck dump the entire load of yard waste onto the front lawn of our property. I rubbed my eyes, was dumbfounded, and momentarily paralyzed as to what I just observed. After emptying this load, the truck turned around and proceeded back down the street. At that point I decided to pursue this slow moving vehicle on foot. The bulldozer turned down a street and into a neighborhood. I finally caught up with him at a home location where significant landscaping and tree cutting was being accomplished. Out of breath, I chastised the driver of this vehicle for his audacity in dumping this yard waste on our lawn. The driver told me that he was not responsible for this action and that I should speak to his “boss”. His superior apologized and told the driver of the truck to pick up the yard waste dumped onto our property. After removing this yard waste from our lawn, it appeared that this load was then dumped on someone else’s property further up the street. I noted the name of this business and decided to report them first to the police where I was told that this situation was not