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green

Heck, yeah.

November 1, 2008 by Lauren 9 Comments

Guess what came in the mail?

All plastics!! 1 - 7!!

The good people at the Lincoln Journal-Star have a curbside recycling program that now extends to our little town of Seward.  You subscribe ($12 a month) and they’ll give you a tub and tote away your recyclables once a week!  Woo-hoo!!  No sorting (I think), and they’ll take glass and all kinds of plastic!  Totally, totally worth it to me.  I’ll actually get some of my basement floor back since we always wait way too long to go to the local recycling center. I’m actually considering canceling my regular garbage collection, except for all that dumb cat litter we throw in there.  You don’t think they can recycle that, do you?

Filed Under: Eco-Freaky Tagged With: green

Where’d it go?

October 23, 2008 by Lauren 8 Comments

I caved yesterday and turned the heat on.  It was 63 degrees in here, and while I’m crazy and cheap, I’m not that crazy.  So the heat is on (at 68), downstairs vents are open, upstairs vents are closed, but I can’t find the stairway curtain. (Hey, you can see the old kitchen in that post!) I had to substitute a silly old flower one for my ultra-classy white one. 🙂 Where could it be?

It’s an extra for the upstairs bathroom.

By the way, current heat check, 67.7 from here on my stool, 62.3 behind the curtain.  I knew you’d want to know.

Filed Under: Gadget, Home 'Improvement' Tagged With: curtain, green, heat, temperature

EcoFreaky Moment

October 4, 2008 by Lauren 8 Comments

I’m really just posting this because I’m tired again and nothing special happened today.  (I slept a lot.)  I looked back through ‘possible post’ pictures and came across these.  I like my Swiffer, but I don’t like the disposable cloths.  I like to use a damp washcloth.  We have a whole stack of white washcloths from WalMart ($5 a dozen, I believe) and they get used for everything in the kitchen.  Anyway, the most satisfying part is after you’ve mopped your floor with them, as I do religiously twice a year –

poke poke poke poke mop

– the dirt that accumulates is so satisfyingly gross.  Then just flip it over and use the other side.  If I’m doing the whole first floor I just keep rinsing out the same cloth.

Yes, it’s disgusting.

There, a disgusting public service announcement from Eco-Freak.

Filed Under: Cheap Tagged With: green

Green thumb

June 28, 2008 by Lauren 7 Comments

Today I went to our godson Brighton’s birthday party.  It was very fun, but of course none of my photos turned out well.   The weather was perfect for running around and playing.   Thanks, Kolliparas!

Afterwards I ran some errands in Lincoln.  I was driving the truck, which has been sitting in the driveway for weeks since I have been walking to work, and was surprised at what I saw in the back.  During those weeks, maple seeds have fallen, much rain has descended from the skies, and little trees have sprouted in my truck bed.  Who says I can’t grow anything? Ha.

Grow, little guys, grow!

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: green

Older than dirt

June 10, 2008 by Lloyd 15 Comments

It was getting past noon and I still hadn’t taken a shower. And, as everyone knows, the only way to justify going into the afternoon without a shower is to get really, really dirty.

We have a fenced in area out behind the garden shed where we dump leaves every year. We call it our compost pile, but we know that to make compost you have to turn it over, add a little dirt and let some air get into the works. We don’t do any of those things. Once a year we dump a whole bunch of leaves on top of last years’ leaves.

Well, it turns out that if you are patient you don’t have to do any of that other stuff. If you’re willing to wait about a decade the leaves will turn into dirt all on their own.

When we moved into our house (about a decade ago, go figure) we had a home inspector come and look things over and tell us what needed to be done. The previous owners fixed some things and we’ve done a few since then. One of the things he said we should do is add some dirt to the south side of the house so that water would drain away from the house more effectively.

Now I happen to be an expert on water (I’m over 70% water by volume) and I knew that our water was draining fine. But twice a year Lauren brings up the fact that we haven’t added any dirt to the south side of the house. Eventually it’s enough to get to a guy, so, as I needed an excuse not to have showered I put my new dirt on the south side of the house.

Oh, only the bottom of the pile was actually dirty, so I had to tunnel under.

The beer is for scale

Trucks use low gear.

It’s really more of a loam.

Filed Under: Home 'Improvement', Lloyd Tagged With: green

Tree

May 8, 2008 by Lauren 11 Comments

I didn’t feel well yesterday and went to bed at 8:30.  I forgot to make a post, so I’m giving you this picture of our oak tree that I took on Sunday.

I think that I shall never see….

Don’t feel you have to make a good comment.  It’s not a good post.

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: green

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