Being a Good Steward

My family and I hate littering. Why do people think it's OK to throw their trash on the ground? We were on a hike today at the Roaring River State Park in Cassville, Missouri. We came to a very beautiful place. See?



Anyway, we got out of the car to take pictures and saw a TON of trash all over the place right above where this picture was taken. Including three tires, a garbage can, a case of beer bottles, an old sweatshirt, two dirty diapers, and a bunch more trash. (SUPER DISGUSTING!) I said, "I wish we had plastic bags to pick it up." Luckily, Mom keeps a thing of WalMart sacks in her trunk. Of course, we got them out and our family picked up trash. Look what we found.

We felt fantastic about helping a pretty place look better. After that we went for a hike up to a spring house. The spring house wasn't so great, but look at what pictures I took.


Missouri really is a beautiful place to live. I'm proud that we left the place nicer than we found it.


Please tell me you don't litter, do you?

Saturday Afternoon Poetry, week 4

Tummy Bubble

by Jack Prelutsky

A burp is just a bubble

that forms inside your tum.

But, if it goes the other way

say nothing, just play dumb.