Last week, Chicago finally got a real taste of winter.
While most people huddled up inside
Suffering without my gloves for this picture!
and snuggled in blankets (which is what I wanted to do, to be honest), I snuggled up in a bunch of warm layers and rode my bike to North Avenue beach.
A while back, I had registered for an Adopt-a-Beach event and once I realized it was going to be on what could have been the first day of snow, I was hesitant.
I knew I had to go despite the wind and the cold. When I lead an Adopt-a-Beach event in August it was hard enough to get people to come. I didn’t want everyone to back out on a clean up in November!
Luckily we had a pretty good group who braved the elements and the flying sand to pick up cigarettes and bottle caps and endless other weird items.
All in all, we ended up removing 141 pounds of trash!
waste not want not 
141 lbs…that’s insane.
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 5:07 PM, waste not want not wrote:
> mkhuber posted: “Last week, Chicago finally got a real taste of winter. > While most people huddled up inside and snuggled in blankets (which is > what I wanted to do, to be honest), I snuggled up in a bunch of warm layers > and rode my bike to North Avenue beach. ” >
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