Global Warming?

[HatchetJack]

What's a helos? should I drive you down to Walmart and help you pick out a good
scattergun?

[Oerets]

Recycle just about everything possible myself. But plastics are a hard one here. The majority of the types my recycle guy will leave. They don't accept but two types. So it is saved until I take the cans in. I try very hard to eliminate the plastic coming here in the first place. Paper and cardboard bundled up waste petro fluids too go to the proper disposal facility. Don't spray my yard or have a guy do it either and the yard looks better then my two adjacent neighbors.

Hell here there are still people burning trash in their back yards.
I been mowing my yard about every two or three weeks. With the deck up all the way. My grass is still green but my neighbors who mow still at least once a week grass are brown.

I only have been watering my garden in the evening with the temps in the 100's and no rain to speak of for over thirty days.


AC is set at 80* in the house and all unneeded power packs are unplugged till needed. TV's on a power strip but I seem to be the only one in the house who knows how to use them! Wanted a instant water heater with no tank when the house was built but contractor could not get a permit. They were to new then and to much trouble with paperwork I guess. So a gas with two sleeves of insulation wrapped was used. Nobody we could find back then to do a solar one.



Barney

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by HatchetJack

What's a helos? should I drive you down to Walmart and help you pick out a good
scattergun?

Helicopter Jack, you know them whirlygig type contraptions that Igor Sikorsky makes up in Connecticut? We've got those po-lice he-los flying over the pad here Jack mostly trying to catch drunken rednecks between midnight and three a.m. as they stumble out of the Stumble Inn bar down the road and get in their beater Yugos and terrorize the decent god fearin' folk round here.

I digress... You do know that you would have to pry my cold hard cash outta my cold dead hands before I would spend a penny at Wallyworld but I think gathered that. I would rather starve than walk through Sam Waltons phucked up emporium of cheap crap from China. The only company in the USA that pays so low you instantly qualify for food stamps if you are hired on....

[Oerets]

Louisville is set to break an all time record high temp today of 106*.




Barney

[Rex E.]

What's wrong with Whole Foods? Silly people trying to eat well. You know, natural food like our grandparents called "food". I sure wish I could afford to shop there.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

What's wrong with Whole Foods? Silly people trying to eat well. You know, natural food like our grandparents called "food". I sure wish I could afford to shop there.

That's what's wrong with Whole Foods. It's commonly referred to a Whole Paycheck.

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by finnbow

That's what's wrong with Whole Foods. It's commonly referred to a Whole Paycheck.

Well aware as my wife's been an employee for well over 10 years now. They are the model I'd think all should be after. Organic grown foods and locally grown a lot of the time.

Much harder to grow organic and much less yield. Easy to see how they can not charge the same as the retailer pushing out all of the Monsanto engineered products.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

Well aware as my wife's been an employee for well over 10 years now. They are the model I'd think all should be after. Organic grown foods and locally grown a lot of the time.

Much harder to grow organic and much less yield. Easy to see how they can not charge the same as the retailer pushing out all of the Monsanto engineered products.

I agree completely, but still find Whole Foods to cater to a niche market of the same sort of people who drive the Toyota Prius. The fresh, localvore ethic they put forward has been pretty much standard fare throughout western Europe for decades. Unfortunately, good fresh food isn't yet mainstream in the US.

[beej]

Originally Posted by finnbow

. . . .Unfortunately, good fresh food isn't yet mainstream in the US.

And I have to believe that a good bit of that is the saturation advertising of that crap they sell at Mc/Wend/Bur/KFC/you-name-it.

The affordability issue is not an inconsequential one. We buy locally produced here because we can afford to. Not everyone has that luxury.

[merrylander]

During summer we have a Farmer's Market five minutes up the road andall year we have Good Earth 10 miles down the road. The problem with the super markets is the truckers. When they are bringing produce from California they do not always run the A/C unit on the trailer. That saves them gas, but when you buy "fresh" produce at the super market you had best eat it in the parking lot as it may not last until you get it home.