This post has an update.
So I've been seeing these, what I can only describe as, sentry posts along the roads around here. Little shelters, big enough for a man to stand in, with an open doorway. Like the Queen's guard in inclement weather. They're in various states of upkeep and decay. At first I thought maybe they were shelters for ticket takers, used only during one/some holiday/festival during the year.
But it turns out, it seems, they are garbage shelters. People take their garbage down from their houses and set it along the roads in these shelters, to wait for pickup. I haven't figured out yet why trash cans would need shelter. It seems easier to buy a replacement lid to keep out rain than to build a shelter. And they're not secure from rummaging animals - they have open doorways. I also don't know why they're so tall. It would seem easier to set trash cans side by side than to stack them one on top of the other. Not that I suppose people are stacking them.
Mysteries ...
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
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