Are you heading towards saving this earth by going green? Well I think we all are but, sometimes we just don't know we are. If you plant a live green plant in your yard, you're helping the environment as plants provide oxygen to the air....and if they're big enough they can provide shade so that other plants will grow. So be a "Mr. Rogers kind of neighbor" and plant a huge old plant so that your neighbor can come over and take advantage of your "greening of American" by coming over to your yard to sit under the plant's shade.
Plants help to provide moisture to the environment. This moisture might mean that your yard gets more rain than others, so don't plant too many new ones. And, of course don't forget that by providing all of these mentioned things, the air temperature might be a bit lower.....I hope this is only for summer because I sure don't want it any lower in the winter.
But planting things isn't the only way to go green. Your shreds from your paper shredder can be worked into your ground, providing much richer soil, plus it acts as a mulch for your plants. But dang ....it would be my luck that some info hacker would probably come into my garden and dig up my shreds and put all of those tiny little strips together to get my credit card information....but wow are they going to be surprised....because all that my credit cards bills show is that they can't steal nothing cause their ain't nothing left to steal .... "rejected" is what they will get. But maybe they could pay the bill when they get those account numbers.
One of the best ways to go green is to stop eating out and stop bringing those non-composting containers home. If you're like me, you are probably tired of seeing those Styrofoam containers sticking out of the ground all over your yard .... left from your efforts to bury all those dang things. Plus if you stop eating out, the weight you lose can be put on the garden soil as fertilizer.....and just think.....you will need to plant more plants so you will have more veggies to eat and think of the shade and moisture you will have in your yard with 354 tomato plants growing in your garden plus 86 bean plants that climb bean poles....and if you plant the giant bean plants, the jolly green giant might even visit your house. That's going green!
Some of you just might not be ready to "go green" nor ready to follow my "sound advice" but, in case you are one of these people, I would advise that you might want to at least pretend you are going green. Buy some plastic plants and stick them in the ground.....bury your take-home containers a bit deeper or heck bury them deep in the garbage bags so your neighbors don't see them sticking out of the garbage bags and send them to the dump so that they have to contend with them. Green is good....but green money is better. That's why I plant my paper shreds, I'm trying to grow paper money.
You do know this is a poor imitation of a spoof??!!
The History of Menard County
Taken from the History of Menard and Mason Counties - 1879 book.
"Considerable settlements were made in other parts of old Sangamon County
before any were made in the limits of what is now Menard. The reader will
bear in mind that this county had no existence till 1839, hence the history of
the early settlement and development of the county is connected with the
history of Sangamon.
Although the white man had frequently visited the "Sangamon country,"
as it was called, and had traveled over the beautiful prairies, and explored the
deep woods of this locality, yet we have no evidence that any one ever settled
in the area of the county prior to April, 1819. The first settler, according to
the best evidence we have, was Mr. John Clary, who came with his family at
the date just named. He settled in a grove in the southwestern part of the
county, near the present site of the village of Tallula. This grove was ever
after known by the name of its first settler, and is to-day noticed on the maps
and known far and near as Clary's Grove. Mr. Clary settled on the south-
west quarter of Section 32, Town 18, Range 7, the land being now owned by
George Spears, Sr. Mr. Clary built what was known to the pioneer settlers as
a "'three-faced camp," that is, he erected three walls, leaving one entire side
open. These walls were built about seven feet high, when poles were laid across
at a distance of about three feet apart, and on these a roof of clapboards was
laid, and these boards were held on by weight-poles laid on them. These
boards were some four feet in length, and from eight inches to a foot wide, and
were split out of oak timber with an instrument called a froe. No floor was
laid in the camp, nor was there any such thing as window or chimney con-
nected with the structure ; neither would you see such thing as a door-shutter
in all this edifice. Now, these are facts, and we doubt not that the young men,
who are now growing up, wonder what the people did for light, and where their
fires were built, as well as how they found ingress and egress. The one side
of the structure that was left out answered all these purposes. Just in front
of the open side was built a large log heap, which served to give warmth in
cold weather, and for cooking purposes all the year round. Abundance of
light was admitted by this aperture, while on either side of the fire were ample
passage-ways for passing in and out. We describe this camp thus particularly,
because in such as this the early settlers spent the first few years of their
sojourn in the new country. Mr. Clary had a family when he first came Judge Robert Clary, recently deceased, was six weeks old when the family settled in the grove.
The large and respectable family of Clarys, now living in
the county, are the descendants of this pioneer. Not long after Clary settled
in the grove, Mr. Solomon Pratt, with his family, took up their residence in
a cabin on Section 3, Town 17, Range 7, this being in the vicinity of Mr.
Clary. During the fall of 1819 and the spring of 1820, emigration came in
pretty rapidly, and, there being no record kept of the order in which they
came, and the names of some being forgotten, it is impossible to get the detail
correct. About this time, the Armstrongs, Greens and Spears came, a more
detailed account of whose settlement will be given in another place. "
Recipe
Do you like Guacamole but don't know how to make it? I love the stuff and found a recipe quite some time ago so that I can make my own.
Guacamole
3 peeled & seeded avocados
1 small tomato diced small (I use Roma so less seeds)
1 small onion minced small
2 cloves of garlic - minced
2 tablespoons Lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cumin
4 drops of hot sauce (I use sriracha the best because it has flavor)
Use a fork or an electric mixer to mash the avocados and then add the rest of the ingredients. Let is sit for a couple of hours to blend the flavors. If your avocados aren't soft put them in a brown paper bag and put them in a dark cabinet for a couple of days to ripen and soften. Serve with tortilla chips, put on a taco salad....will keep a few days. Can half the recipe for smaller amount by using two avocados....and add more of anything else you want.
Thought For the Day
Taken from the History of Menard and Mason Counties - 1879 book.
"Considerable settlements were made in other parts of old Sangamon County
before any were made in the limits of what is now Menard. The reader will
bear in mind that this county had no existence till 1839, hence the history of
the early settlement and development of the county is connected with the
history of Sangamon.
Although the white man had frequently visited the "Sangamon country,"
as it was called, and had traveled over the beautiful prairies, and explored the
deep woods of this locality, yet we have no evidence that any one ever settled
in the area of the county prior to April, 1819. The first settler, according to
the best evidence we have, was Mr. John Clary, who came with his family at
the date just named. He settled in a grove in the southwestern part of the
county, near the present site of the village of Tallula. This grove was ever
after known by the name of its first settler, and is to-day noticed on the maps
and known far and near as Clary's Grove. Mr. Clary settled on the south-
west quarter of Section 32, Town 18, Range 7, the land being now owned by
George Spears, Sr. Mr. Clary built what was known to the pioneer settlers as
a "'three-faced camp," that is, he erected three walls, leaving one entire side
open. These walls were built about seven feet high, when poles were laid across
at a distance of about three feet apart, and on these a roof of clapboards was
laid, and these boards were held on by weight-poles laid on them. These
boards were some four feet in length, and from eight inches to a foot wide, and
were split out of oak timber with an instrument called a froe. No floor was
laid in the camp, nor was there any such thing as window or chimney con-
nected with the structure ; neither would you see such thing as a door-shutter
in all this edifice. Now, these are facts, and we doubt not that the young men,
who are now growing up, wonder what the people did for light, and where their
fires were built, as well as how they found ingress and egress. The one side
of the structure that was left out answered all these purposes. Just in front
of the open side was built a large log heap, which served to give warmth in
cold weather, and for cooking purposes all the year round. Abundance of
light was admitted by this aperture, while on either side of the fire were ample
passage-ways for passing in and out. We describe this camp thus particularly,
because in such as this the early settlers spent the first few years of their
sojourn in the new country. Mr. Clary had a family when he first came Judge Robert Clary, recently deceased, was six weeks old when the family settled in the grove.
The large and respectable family of Clarys, now living in
the county, are the descendants of this pioneer. Not long after Clary settled
in the grove, Mr. Solomon Pratt, with his family, took up their residence in
a cabin on Section 3, Town 17, Range 7, this being in the vicinity of Mr.
Clary. During the fall of 1819 and the spring of 1820, emigration came in
pretty rapidly, and, there being no record kept of the order in which they
came, and the names of some being forgotten, it is impossible to get the detail
correct. About this time, the Armstrongs, Greens and Spears came, a more
detailed account of whose settlement will be given in another place. "
Recipe
Do you like Guacamole but don't know how to make it? I love the stuff and found a recipe quite some time ago so that I can make my own.
Guacamole
3 peeled & seeded avocados
1 small tomato diced small (I use Roma so less seeds)
1 small onion minced small
2 cloves of garlic - minced
2 tablespoons Lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cumin
4 drops of hot sauce (I use sriracha the best because it has flavor)
Use a fork or an electric mixer to mash the avocados and then add the rest of the ingredients. Let is sit for a couple of hours to blend the flavors. If your avocados aren't soft put them in a brown paper bag and put them in a dark cabinet for a couple of days to ripen and soften. Serve with tortilla chips, put on a taco salad....will keep a few days. Can half the recipe for smaller amount by using two avocados....and add more of anything else you want.
Thought For the Day
You're born an original.
Don't die a copy.
--John Mason
The corporate world is falling behind. It's still in the 1980's with the striped ties and maybe even those inch wide ties. And the corporate woman's world is still using those 1970 cloth belts with their attire. Isn't it time for the corporate world to become hip and in the real world!?!?!?
In today's world, a lot of corporate persons could work at home using their personal computer to keep in contact with their worrisome employer, who probably believes the employee will still be in bed at noon and won't really be working and slaving away at home. That's bunk!
Actually the big corporation could probably save money....fewer parking costs for the employees....fewer missed days.....increased productivity due to fewer interruptions in the office environment.
But those employers just don't want to trust employees at home. And when they don't, I say set up the web cam schedule so the employee has to be in front of the old web camera at least once every hour....the employer will see that by far the majority of employees will be dedicated at home workers simply because they won't want to lose their new found freedom from the office crap.
I say dump the 1980's striped and pencil thin ties and the 1970 cloth belts....let your hair down Mr./Mrs. Employer ....if there is any way you can..... let those employees stay home and work.....and if you have to, require at least one day in the office per week! Update your wardrobe corporate America....and get with it!
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