Keep a box of spent batteries

Various batteries: two 9-volt, two "AAA&q...
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Battery Recycling! Now here’s a bit of info for you on what to do with these batteries that you know you shouldn’t be tossing into the trash.

Lookup a recycling center near you!

Earth911.org has given itself a really nice sprucing up and looks gorgeous.

Our batteries died in our cordless phone and I went out to buy new ones. Well I brought home the wrong kind. They’re expensive little suckers. Mrs. SF Daddy went out and just bought a new set of phones! (Not as great for the environment.) So now my errand of returning the wrong batteries is expanded to also collecting up the old phones and either recycling them, or finding a person who can REUSE them. Finding people is easy for us, but a great way to get rid of the ‘still usefull’ stuff you don’t need anymore is FreeCycle. People in your area will come to your house and take it from you. No money exchanges and it’s beautiful.

FreeCycle “Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.”

Flying Green


We can all say we’re going green, but there are a lot of folks that still need to catch up. We’re using cloth shopping bags, driving a hybrid and replacing light bulbs.

These girls are also getting more modern chores: Feed the worms (the kitchen scraps), and take out the Recycling. We recycle so much stuff it’s almost a shame that we have to pay extra in our county for trash collection at all. We only have 2 bags a week for a family of 4.

J the gardner arborist

A TV program in 10 minutes just made it “click” for a 3-year-old.

A plant gets water from the ground through its roots;

air from under its leaves;

and with sun from the tops of its leaves it turns it all into food!

After watering the flowers on the porch we pulled weeds and found some baby pine trees growing at the mailbox. Maybe we’ll watch them grow up into big trees. We’ll have to ask mommy if that would be okay. She doesn’t really love pine trees very much… but they do grow fast!