Plastisized

Since plastic became a common household item in the mid 1950's, production has consistently increased each year. We now produce about 6 billion pounds each year. About 3-5% of all plastics are recycled or incinerated, all the rest still exists.... and will for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years...... "If you could fast-forward 10,000 years to an archaeological dig…you’d find a little line of plastic in the rock face. What happened to those people? Well, they ate their own plastic and disrupted their genetic structure and weren’t able to reproduce. They didn’t last very long because they killed themselves." Check out this article ... you will be shocked..... and do whatever you can to reduce and recycle your plastics. Products are beginning to appear on supermarket shelves packaged in "corn plastic", which is supposedly compostable..... the problem here is, there are no public compost facilities to take the used containers..... but please support these products whenever you can, the more we use them, the more pressure there will be to have public composting facilities.

Have you ever bought bottled water from a machine... for a buck? Do the math... you're paying about 5 cents an ounce for filtered tap water .... gasoline on the other hand .... at over a buck a liter is about 2 cents an ounce. Who says the gas companies are gouging?

It must be harvest season as we have been intensely buzzed by helicopters over the last couple of days. I was talking with one farmer who told me that the helicopter had a particular interest in his potted grape plants. It hovered over his farm for several minutes..... doing whatever they do to identify the crop in question.

Straw Bale Update: As we wait for a full set of drawings, attention has turned to the pump house that Kari is determined to "cutiefy", (if that's a word). Friday we went to Fanny Bay to pick up some cedar shingles for the outside walls.... it was also a good reason to stop in at the FBI (Fanny Bay Inn) for lunch and a beverage. They have actually fixed it up a bit and the bikers were outnumbered when we were there. Shingling was started on the weekend with Sienna standing guard... Tomorrow Dusty will trench the power and phone lines..... this could mean.... yes.... power could in our future.