I've been completely slacking around the world of Treebox Vodka. The man has been keeping me busy and unfortunately I haven't been tending to this world. There is still plenty of trash out there on the DC streets.

I've been thinking about the monthly cleanups lately - the last one was in March as April was a down month. I feel like the cleanups are a great community activity and provide that immediate positive feeling that we are doing something good. But overall the value is very slim I think in terms of overall impact. Just my current thoughts on the topic...

Anyway, the cleanups should still go on. I'm going to schedule the next one for May 24th. No ideas on a location yet.

Updated: No clean up Saturday.

Well I missed my goal of having the May 24th clean up. The challenge I'm having is coordination. As you know this blog is dedicated to the independent spirit of community participation. However, the clean ups require coordination with the city department of public works. They are the ones who come out and pick up our trash at the end of the day. They need advance notice and if it rains then I like to postpone to Sunday, however they don't pick up on Sundays.

So I'm looking for some ideas on how to keep the clean ups going without their participation. I'm interested in more spontaneous cleanups around Shaw instead of the more planned ones.

With that said, I'm definitely thinking this Saturday is a perfect day to do another Shaw clean up. Meet up at Azi's at 10 AM and we'll figure it out from there. Who's interested?