Learning the Drills

It's mid-August in North Texas. It's ninety-nine degrees. School is in session. Therefore, it is marching band practice season. Time to learn the drills and routines for football season.

My little rolling band of recycling collection bins is also learning its positions and routines at the condo complex. This band is my project. I hope the residents will soon learn the routine and be pleased with the performance.

At first the bins were rolled out of their "staging area" to the far corners of the complex. They had to be returned to their positions, as the city collection trucks have an automated arm that grabs and dumps the bins. The arm hooks onto that metal bar on the front of each bin that looks a bit like a mouth, OR MAYBE a silver piccolo.

I would like to get each bin a band hat with a marabou feather, but I have riled some of the residents enough for this month. People are beginning to participate in the voluntary effort. I'm using Professor Harold Hill's "Think System" in hopes that this could be an effort that unites and reenergizes this community.





By the way, the little blue recycling basket is the baton twirler!