recycling.... by my own hand

I know that some people will think this is silly, but I find it great fun. I cut up the plastic grocery store bags... or really any plastic bag I can lay my hands on... and make it into yarn. Here are some pictures of a bag and some yarn in progress. The bag is made of one ply in white, I really like the flower detail. The brown is going to be spun into a two ply yarn for the grocery bag I am going to knit once I am done with the bag and shawl.

Decluttering

that office closet and trying to remember to post here daily!

That office closet is a danger zone. So I am working on getting the stuff sorted into recycle and donate piles.

The picture for today is a cold hardy rose in my front yard. It has been blooming for a couple of weeks now but I haven't taken the time to take the picture. Even after nights that are freezing and a couple of snows it is still setting flowers. Last year it flowered until late November, perhaps if the days are nice it will do it again.

Boy do I need to get the rake out!

Challenge!

My friend Rebecca has challenged herself to post for 365! I am unsure if I can keep up but I intend to give it a go.

Pictures included.

Since I have not charged my camera batteries I am going to post an older picture for today, it may not have anything to do with the world at large really, but I am going to have to start where I am right now.

I am at a point where the eco anxiety has me all freaked out. I know that there is nothing really that I can do from a global picture so I am going to have to do it on a micro level. I make my choices, and I try to keep it as green as I can.

I have found that cleaning with hydrogen peroxide seems to keep my house clean and without those funky odors that one can have with dogs and babies in the home. LOL

Here is how it goes most of the time... take one spray bottle and add one half cup of water and one half cup of hydrogen peroxide. Now take two cloths... one white cotton rag kind of cloth and one micro fiber detailers cloth. That will give you one to wash with and one to dry with.

Spray your chosen item to clean and let it sit for a minute, then wash it down with the white cloth, and dry with the detailer rag. There you have it... clean, deodorized, and dry again so nothing can really grow on it. I started this a couple of weeks ago to avoid catching the lung gunk( technical term that!) everyone seemed to be coming down with and I found that it works like magic. (Ladies it even took the man pee odor from the bath room... ) I use it to clean almost everything now and find that it even works on the floor, so no more buckets of dirty water. I have a microfiber mop head that just goes into the washer and dryer with the rest of my cleaning rags so I am as happy as I can be about it. Washing is a chore that I have not managed to get rid of yet.