Month: March 2012

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Donate Your Used Newspapers

I am dismayed by how many read the daily newspaper and then just thoughtlessly toss the paper into the trash can. Newspapers are among the easiest things to recycle. If you get the morning paper every day, how hard is it to save them up for a week or two in a box near your trashcan and then drop them off at the recycling center when you are out running errands?

Even better, find a way to re-use the newspapers. I take my box of newspaper to the vet down by the shopping center. He uses newspapers to line the bottom of the cages and crates for the animals that are kept overnight after surgery or for special medical treatments. He also boards a few animals while their owners travel for short periods.

I feel that I am helping raise the comfort level for some animals in needs and helping the vet manage his expenses by no having to buy commercial products for cage liners. Plus, I am building good will with my relationship with the vet. And it doesn’t cost me a cent to do it.

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Change Your Clocks Tonight

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Helps to remember this little saying, Spring forward and Fall back. That means the clocks change tonight and since we have to move the time ahead by an hour that we all lose that hour of sleep. I always find it interesting that they decided to make the change happen on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Why not do it on Sunday night and have that lost hour disappear before Monday’s start of the week? I don’t think its fair to cut short my Saturday night partying by an hour when you could just as easily take away an hour from Sunday instead.

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Mud and More Mud

With all this rain we are getting I am pretty sure that this area won’t have any issues with drought later in the summer. We have had so much rain my yard is nothing but mud.

The mud is becoming a big problem for a lot of people. For one thing, we can’t till the gardens or fields. This is the week that most of us gardeners like to get out the tillers and turn the soil to get ready for planting. But it won’t turn if it is mud.

I saw on the news last night that a fire truck responding to a fire down in Nolensville got stuck in the mud. The house was burning on top of a hill and had a dirt driveway, which is pretty common for houses out in the country. So the firetruck tried to get up the hill to put out the fire and ended up getting stuck in the mud. The home burned to the ground because the driveway was blocked by that stuck fire truck. What a shame, but at least no lives were lost.

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Extra days are nice

Yesterday was like a bonus day. Usually February only has 28 days and once the schoolkids get that firmly implanted in their minds, they just accept that. Except that every four years February gets an extra day tacked on the end of the month. So that happens to be this year and it was kinda nice to have that extra day. It gave me a little breathing room to get some things done around the house and an extra day to get the bills paid.