A small thank you for our Mother Earth

There is a small ravine we walk past on our three block walk to preschool. It is always filled with paper, can, an assortment of plastic and garbage. Everytime we pass by, Everest says, "lets pick up all that garbage." I have been telling him for months we would do it. It has been cold, snowy or wet and the ravine is a little steep. It has finally warmed up and when I asked Everest what he wanted to do one evening he replied "go for a walk and pick up trash". (That is my little earth loving boy!). My parents were here, so we all got on an apron and gloves, loaded Everest's wagon with some paper bags and set off for the ravine.

My mom and Leaf were picking up trash together.  

Everest found a Styrofoam cooler and filled it at least four times.

We sorted all the things we found into recyclable and non-recyclable. Leaf got a little bored picking up the garbage, but had fun helping sort it once we got it out of the ravine.

It goes in this bag Nonnie.

We met the neighbor who's property borders the ravine (he was tilling his garden, but stopped to help us clean up). He and Everest worked together and picked up a lot of trash.

 Our neighbor took all the garbage and we took the recycling (it was too much for us to take all of it in one trip!) For the most part the stuff we picked up was blown into the ravine, mostly from windy garbage and recycling days. It is everyone's duty to pick up trash and help keep the earth clean. For all we know, some of the garbage we picked up may have blown away from our recycling bin.
Heading home, everyone was proud of the work we did. As we were leaving, Everest said "You're welcome earth, I hope you feel better now, we love you!"

 Look at all we picked up in 30-45 minutes!

The next time we walked to school, Everest notice that there was already a newspaper in the ravine. As we walked by he yelled down into the ravine "Don't worry Earth, we will come back and clean you up again soon."
Next time you go for a walk, take a plastic bag with you and see how much you can pick up! But don't forget  your gloves!