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?

WHEN YOUR AC GOES ON THE FRITZ......
....Mother Nature thumbs her nose

It's been brutally hot lately. No surprise really. Every October it gets like this, and people mumble about how unusual it is, and how the earth is heating up faster than Al Gore can write books. But it's true, no matter what's going on with the environment, Mother Nature has blessed Southern California with at least one heat wave every September and October. With two of my kids and two of my grandkids celebrating birthdays this month, it's been the same since 1963. Before that, maybe people froze there buns off. I can't really say...

But, this isn't a rant about the environment....nope, it's about the timing of the AC taking a dive....and getting a new one, that someone has to install, so someone else carted it up to the attic, but the other someone, who is the expert installer, has too many people demanding installation of new AC's.



That is why Grandma J drinks this much water in a day. I wish I could show you the number of fruit shushes and margaritas I polished off too.

Central Texas is starting to look really good to me.....did I just say that?