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No Girlie Plastic Beer Bottles Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 12:09am.
(Part 3 in a series - The Value of Glass) Beer, wine and whiskey in plastic bottles?Not so much.Alcohol trumps plastic in the glass-plastic-alcohol game. » read more
When Driving on Glass is a Good Thing Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Sat, 12/06/2008 - 9:29am.
It was my own doing that I awoke worrying abouthaving a flat tire on Intersta » read more
Tips from The Great Depression Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Mon, 11/24/2008 - 9:57am.
My mother-in-law didn’t realize that she was a missionary for reuse. » read more
Not the Last Straw Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 5:36pm.
Today is my birthday and my husband invited me out for lunch. I picked
P.F. Chang’s Chinese Bistro because it’s just around the corner and on the route
for errands we'd be running. Never having been there
before, I had no particular expectations other than being pretty sure
there would be rice, vegetables and chop sticks.
The passion fruit tea smelled really good. I brought it up to my lips and took a whiff a couple of times, almost slurping some . . . but . . . I just couldn’t do it. » read more
Dry Cleaner or Starship? Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Thu, 10/30/2008 - 7:52am.
Last week my friend, a young urbanist who has been apartment hunting in downtown Miami, emailed asking me for an opinion. Sure. I’m here for you buddy. How can I help? He asked me about the dry cleaner in his future neighborhood.
“It appears to be very green,” he said, “but I’d like to hear what you think.” He thought I’d want to see it - - It would be a “dry cleaner experience” unlike any I’d ever had, he said. Actually, I can’t remember anything about my previous dry cleaner experience. It was classic I’m sure. » read more
Why silt fence makes me crazy Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 9:16am.
Generally people are not provoked over silt fences. I am. I can work myself right into a funk over a silt fence while others don’t even notice its existence. Last weekend I spent 30 minutes in the North Carolina woods overlooking a washout where three guys were putting up such a fence. I studied how they pulled and staked black fabric to make a wall along the creek. I noticed the fabric was already distorted out of shape and ragged on one side.
Storm brings gators and humans together Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 9:07pm.
Storm stories abound on the evening news as autumn approaches. Down here in the south, we have a unique storm hazard. Alligators. They can appear in the ditch by the driveway, in the swimming pools, the ponds of a subdivision or quite seriously, in your living room if a door is left open. We once had a 8'6" gator take haven in our courtyard. Had to call in professional trappers fromFlorida Fish and Wildlife (one was a woman, I'm proud to say). » read more
I just missed T. Boone Pickens Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 9:36am.
This time last week I was in Lincoln NE removing plants from their wrong locations (my professor friend cautioned I shouldn't call it weeding). Had I stayed on, I'd be in line this morning to hear T. Boone Pickens explain his plan at a town hall meeting at the Lancaster Events Center at 10:30. You've no doubt seen Mr. Pickens' tv ads promoting a national shift to wind power and natural gas. I'm trying to look at it as rationally as I can with all the information i can find. Right now, I'm a walking dichotomy. » read more
Thanks weather persons and Gov Charlie Submitted by GreenHomeLady on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 8:52am.
While weather persons talked all night about Tropical Storm
Fay, I slept . . . quite well. My peace is surely a testimony that I believed
in them with their non-stop tracking, squiggled drawings from computer models
and the mighty cone of predictability. They said it would not intensify to a
major hurricane overnight like Charley did in 2005.
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