My friend JJ posted a great article on her site: “How Green Are You“. While I try to make smart decisions and conserve where I can, I still had a feeling I’d bomb the game. I drive over 30 miles each weekday and our community has no recycling program in place. I [...]

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The local water company notified a large area of the community today that there is a potential problem with the water. The notice said something about a low pressure problem causing the water to possibly be unsafe and advised boiling the water before drinking for the next 48 hours. For convenience�s sake, we went to the grocery store and picked up several gallons of drinking water and a bag of ice.

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I decided to take the kids to McDonald’s tonight for dinner; partly because I didn’t thaw anything out and partly because "Ponopoly" (as my youngest daughter calls "Monopoly") is back. Normally, the drive-thru service is mediocre and 3 out of 5 times the bags contain the wrong order� but it�s still a nice alternative to cooking sometimes. I figured Thursday night, after 7:00pm, how bad could it be? Well, our �quick trip� to the fast food place turned into a 20 minute sit in the drive through lane.

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