Summer coolness

Here we go, it's only the beginning of June and we're beyond the beginning of summer in Central Texas.  It's also beyond monthly electric bills under $100 dollars.

And as the first week of June wraps up it looks like it's getting even hotter.  Grandma J has no doubts that the triple digit days are not far away.

Grandma J loves Aquafina water.  Yes it's bottled and no Grandma J doesn't refill the bottles with tap water.  And for those who think Grandma J is not only un-green, here's another tidbit that will shake you from that tree you're hugging convince you that she's off her rocker....

JJ drinks Aquafina too. 


Grandma J didn't mean to get off on environmental issues...she wants to tell you about a product she's fallen in love with....

It's MiO, and she pronounces it my.o.  It's about the coolest way to flavor your water without any calories or using messy powders.

It comes in this cute little container with a pop open type top. It dispenses in measured squirts into your water.

Just a squirt or two and that's it!  Watching the artificial flavoring and color float through the water gives Grandma J flashbacks to her lava lamp days. 

Yeah, this is the picture you've all been waiting for....
But really, Grandma J loves MiO, and it comes in a plethora of flavors including sweet tea, and maybe peach tea.

Have you tried MiO?  How are you staying cool in this premature heat wave?

xoxo Grandma J

My Greener Side


Starting today, Grandma J is focusing on her countdown to moving calendar. It's all about packing, cleaning shopping. There are purchases that have been on the back burner for a while, but with the upcoming move, they have jumped to the top of the "how I spend my spendable income list".

One luxury item will be a new flat panel TV because Huey, the maintenance guy at the new and improved compound, which is more like a spa, has offered to mount stuff and install stuff for Grandma J. And yes, I know that last sentence could have easily been three paragraphs.

That's why the timing is right for a new wall mounted TV, and decorator rods and pictures to be hung. Huey could easily become Grandma J's best friend. But what I really want to talk about is being green.


Grandma J went to Walmart yesterday to get some boxes so she could start packing. While she was making her way through the bakery hardware department, she saw these......




Green totes for only $4.50. The free cardboard boxes were tempting, but Grandma J bit the bullet and bought these totes to save a tree or two. There is an overlap of six days for moving stuff, so the same two totes can be used over and over....along with four older totes that Grandma J already has.



Oh yes, and I know what you are thinking! That's right, you saw that bottled water. Well, here's the story on the water. Grandma J hates water......really hates water. She hates bottled water. The thing is, she has to drink a ton of it a day, and Aqua Fina is the only stuff she can drink. A Brita filtered carafe of tap water is used for coffee and cooking. But here is the good news. Lookie.....

Aquafina is getting GREENer! Yeah for Aquafina.

And check this out! Here is a very green thing, Disney and The Nature Conservancy has vowed to plant 2.7 million trees in the rain forests bordering the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil. The effort is a promotion on Disney’s part, as well as an act of environmentalism.

Disney is planting one tree for each movie-goer who buys a ticket to “Earth,” Disney’s sweeping nature documentary that follows families of wild animals through their struggles.


I plan on seeing this movie, how about you?

Debris Falling in Texas, Possibly From Satellites





FAA officials believe debris could be related to satellite collision. Click on "earth" to read the details.

**Actually, all that stuff is a whole lot of satellites....like my Verizon network....oh wait!! I don't have Verizon.

Grandma J can't tell you how relieved she is because for a moment I thought all that debris was from my AquaFina bottles that my neighbor is supposed to be digging out of the trash.