Trash talk

SKANEATELES - Kihm Winship was in his early 20s the first and only time that he was forced to swallow hair. And lint. And mop string.

Being in the Air Force has many perks, but when you're responsible for making sure the area outside of your barracks is spit-spot, and when your training instructor forces you to eat any garbage if he finds it first - let's just say it was a good thing Winship was able to locate the dead blackbird on the ground before his instructor did.

Is it any wonder, then, that Winship, now 60, has such an aversion to litter? He dislikes it so much that three months ago, he created Litter in Skaneateles, a blog in which he writes daily about everything from improperly discarded soda bottles to half-eaten food that for some reason hasn't made its way to the bin. He's had more than 900 visits to his page since late June.