Happy Earth Day!
There are so many things you can do to be kind to the Earth. Here are 10 things that we do:
1. When we go out to eat fast food if we are finished with our meal and there are still napkins left we don't throw them away. We take them home and use them.
2. We do not use a clothes dryer. We hang our laundry outside whenever possible or we hang it inside on racks.
3. Just about half the lights in our house are either compact fluorescent or fluorescent. In multiple bulb fixtures we use half and half.
4. We do not use chemicals on our lawn. We have never watered it and it does not turn brown. Weeds have a long tap root and grass has very shallow roots so the weeds stay green in the hot weather.
5. We eat organically when ever possible. Most crops are sprayed with chemicals. Sometimes the field is sprayed before the seeds are planted to kill off any other living plant that was in the field. I know this is true because I have seen it with my own eyes.
6. We reuse plastic bags for garbage and to carry all sorts of things. I was recently told that if you know you will be walking in a muddy area you can cover your shoes with them.
7. A mulch saving idea I have used in the past is to place several sheets of news paper under the mulch. The paper will decompose and you will not have to mulch as often.
8. I try to keep no more than 3 lights on in the house at any one time. I used to be very good at this. I have been slacking off and need to work on it some more.
9. We either compost all of our food scraps (except bones) or we feed them to the chickens.
10. We reuse plastic containers. They are great for leftovers.
Please leave a comment and share what you do to live lightly today for a brighter tomorrow.
Moonshine helping to arrange the books.
Gio Signing banana.
I have bought a lot of books at thrift stores in the past week or so. All of the ones for Gio were 99 cents or less. We ended up bringing some of his "old" ones to Grandma and Abuelo's house. Gio looks at a lot of books lately between looking at them during potty time and having them read to him before bed.
Some of the books I bought are too advanced for him right now but they looked interesting and were such a good deal.
Gio liked the center book titled Things That Go so much, he carried it in the car to and from church today. He is still really into anything with wheels.
