One of the *green blogs* I enjoy is No Impact Man. He has an interesting post today about the “needle exchange approach to planetary damage” which is well worth the read. I’ve long been a believer in the idea that lots of people doing just a little can make a big difference. Some seem to…
One blog at a time…
My daughter is hosting “Changing the World One Day and One Blog at a Time” on her site, Retro Housewife. You can read about it here. In our household, we participated in Earth Hour tonight and had a wonderful time. We enjoyed a leisurely meal by candlelight lasting more than the required hour and then…
Earth Hour…almost here!
Are you participating? What do you plan to do? Do you know what I’m talking about? Tonight at 8 p.m., your local time, you can join me and millions of others around the world as we turn off our lights for one hour. Read more about it here and then leave me a comment telling…
Decreasing junk mail…
Do you get tired of all the junk mail? I know I do. Especially the credit card offers because they need to be shredded or at least torn in several pieces before being disposed of. One idea I read on No Impact Man is to contact the company linked below and request removal from credit…
Monday Maintenance
Sometimes I feel that all I do is maintain and never really make much forward progress. I can easily fill my day with routine tasks – you know, the stuff that has to be done over and over. Every day I make the bed, scoop the litter box, do the dishes, cook meals, feed animals…
Life on Apple Tree Farm
Apple Tree Farm –that’s what we call our place here in rural Oklahoma. It’s really kind of a joke since it isn’t truly a farm and we only have one apple tree. But it is 40 acres of lovely property in the country with the potential to be a small farm. I no doubt watched…
This is the way we mop our floors
This is the way we mop our floors, mop our floors, mop our floors… I’ve spent quite a bit of time decluttering lately, at the expensive of other household chores. Like mopping the kitchen, for instance. Since we don’t have toddlers spilling things, it wasn’t horrible, but it still needed a good scrubbing. It also…
Decluttering
Since this blog is at least ostensibly about decluttering, I thought I should update you on a few more decluttering tasks I have completed. —Yesterday I sorted through the two organizers we have in the kitchen for paper items. Isn’t it amazing how if you ignore something for awhile, you find you no longer need…
Spicing things up
My husband is out of town on a business trip so I picked up a couple of movies to watch yesterday. I was watching “A Streetcar Named Desire” last night while eating my dinner (broiled salmon — yum). After I ate, I paused the movie so I could put my dishes in the dishwasher and…