Happy Earth Day!

like many of you, i try to do my best to save the environment.

1.  i've given up plastic when grocery shopping and now bring my own bags.  i still haven't gotten it in my head to avoid plastic when shopping for things other than groceries but i'm working on it. 

2.  i'm replacing all of our lightbulbs with CFwhatevers as they burn out.  (i can't figure out if it's more environmentally aware to just get rid of perfectly good bulbs before they've burnt out or not.  but it's certainly more maryse-miserly aware to do it that way).

3.  i do not water my lawn nor do i use artificial fertilizers.  mostly because our lawn is crap.  and to fertilize and water would only encourage the dandelions to grow even taller.  plus, norma says dandelions are good for eating so i'm killing three birds with one stone.  saving water, using only organic fertilizer (ie. wild bunny, bird and squirrel poop) and eating locally.

4. .  i try to recycle but i have yet to decipher the double-secret code of proper recyclable preparation and only manage to have my recyclables taken away 50% of the time.  i think the recycle truck driver guy is a control freak AND a megalomaniac, deciding at the beginning of his route whether or not he'll be emptying our blue recycling box or not that day.  too many cans?  NO!  not today! five inches from the curb?  NO!  not today!   our regular garbage guy on the other hand is a gem.  i love him (and i reward him handsomely during the holidays with a dunkin donuts giftcard delivered by me in my gnome pajamas.)  if he were in charge of the recyclable pick-up, i'm convinced that my town's carbon footprint would be reduced by half.

and finally,

5.  i reuse yarn.  yep.  i do.  a little over a year ago, i knit these toe-up green lace socks.  i was pretty happy with them, being that they were my first toe-up and my first lace socks.  unfortunately though, they never fit right and one day when i tried to slip one on, it ripped at the cuff.   

so, i frogged them.

and knit a pair of twinkleberries instead. 

still a little lacy but a better fit, these were a super fast knit with an easily memorized pattern.  i knit a heal flap instead of the short-row heel.  you know, because of the giant peds.   i've raveled the details.

so happy earth day to all of you.  go out and enjoy the day.

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day 6 -- a reminder that this is sometimes a knitting blog and good for the environment