At one end of the bin, two men systematically sorted through the mounds of stuff and handed anything of value -- dishes, silver, porcelain, pottery, pictures, needlework, linens -- to a woman perched on the outer ledge, who in turn handed the items to another woman, who packed them in boxes and loaded them into a car.
Despite the heat wave, they used my fireplace and multiple Duraflame logs to reduce mounds of stuff (my stuff??) to ash – including, I believe, the missing set of guest sheets I left carefully folded for their comfort.
I say this not to brag, but to remind myself that we can be thankful for what we have anywhere, anytime, and under any circumstances - whether or not mounds of stuffing and pumpkin pies are present.
There were just a couple of pots on the floor, each containing a huge, multicoloured, waxy, fat-congealed mound of stuff.
(Johnson) KARIN WEINER: 'FRONTIERA' A camp site of cardboard logs, stuffed fabric stones and a rag rug around a television set; suspended stuffed clouds like ornate patchwork mattresses; a mound of stuffed antlers; and collages of countless flowers comprise this industriously zany artist's second solo.
"We add a little bit of the orange," he said, putting diced orange sections into the mixing bowl, along with some freshly chopped rosemary and sage, and finally poured about a quarter of a cup of orange juice over the mound of stuffing.
Trucks carry in mounds of the stuff, which is milled from roadways under repair.
Huge mounds of the stuff now protect New Yorkers who live along the waterfront on Rockaway Beach in Queens, an area that was seriously damaged by the storm.
Take the astonished reaction in the past few days to research by the campaign group Action on Sugar, which found that those innocent, reviving coffee shops at the station are secretly serving up great mounds of the stuff.
Sledding and snow angels are fun until it comes time to actually deal with the mounds and mounds of the stuff blocking your driveway, sitting on your windshield or weighing down your roof.
Petcoke is a byproduct of the oil refining process, and mounds of the stuff have been piling up along the Calumet River in Chicago and blowing into nearby residential areas, raising environmental concerns.
