Have I ever told you about our trash pile?

We have this trash pile that lives on our street. Sometimes it is filled with furniture, like 25 chairs, for example, and sometimes it has gigantic bags full of rotten beans that the pigeons just love, but it ALWAYS has huge piles of identical long black plastic bags that look exactly like body bags. And sometimes, you just feel a little wierd when you realize that you walk by these plastic bags everyday that look exactly like body bags and you don't know at all what's really inside of them....

But then today there was MAJOR excitement at the trash pile. We went outside to go do some reading (surprise surprise) in Central Park and there's approximately 4 fire trucks and 20 firemen just hanging out on our street, very near the trash pile. And all the firemen were wearing their full gear, and there was police and ambulances and more firetrucks down the street, but no one seemed to be in a real state of panic and have any urgency. They were just kind of strolling down the street towards what I thought might be a disaster of some kind. Never found out what the emergency was- these things happen a lot around here I guess- but that was some big excitement...

Sometimes here it all of a sudden just smells so much like cakes...such tasty cakes....and then you turn the corner and the NUTS FOR NUTS man is standing there with his cart full of tasty nuts!! I'm always a little disappointed that it's nuts, not cakes, but it just always smells really great...