Well, summer is no longer lingering. Fall is in full force.

The school across the street is rife with noise. Sounds of whistles, as the football game begins. School children shouting and running through the parking lot. Garbage floats across my front fence, chip and candy wrappers aloft with the whip of the chill wind. A dance of the doritos wrappers.

I want to sweep the garbage back into the school parking lot. Why should I have to pick up garbage that petulant 7th graders are throwing out of their backpacks? I am filled with irk.

Should I approach the staff at Moultrie Middle School and perhaps advise them to remind these little imps to reduce, reuse and recycle? To throw their garbage in the garbage can, not the street? There are ample trash cans on the school property; but apparently, 35+ years of do not litter programs make not an iota of difference for some of these apathetic students.