birds, butts, and beer (cans that is)...

So far, despite the short but enjoyable break in weather hostilities, the bird feeder remains untouched. There are birds around, including Ginormous crows flying in the yard, a woodpecker at the tree, but no bird feeder customers (yet).

We discovered that the layers of snow covered the lovely mess of cigarette butts that the previous tenants felt generous enough to leave behind for us in the yards(both front and back, because, let's face it, why limit yourself to depositing your cigarette butts to ONLY the backyard when you could also spread that joy to the front too). Maybe they were under the impression that cigarette butts are biodegradable and will now return to their natural place in the ground. Maybe they were trying some new, rogue version of composting. Who knows...I can't speak to their motivations. I only know it is pretty gross looking. Of course only to be topped by the fact that they also left empty beer cans in the yard too, just to complete the classy look. Yay.
Also, guess how big out trash can is (Provided by the garbage removal service). It's 96 g.
It looks like some sort of industrial size recycling bin- and yet this is the smallest size. How much trash do people put out each week????!?!