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Bikes in Shanghai, China, May 2004

Environmental Awareness, One Water Bottle at a Time

In honor of Blog Action Day, I thought I would write about single serving drink containers. Last week, Jennifer over at Tree Hugging Family posted about using refillable soap dispensers. In my comment to the post, I also suggested that we avoid using single serving drink containers and buy in bulk. At our house we have purchased CamelBak plastic bottles and use them daily in backpacks for water. In their reusable lunch boxes from Laptop Lunches, the kids also have smaller bottles that we use for chocolate milk. When bring snack to soccer games, we try to remember to bring large containers of juice with cups to recyclable cups to pour into and avoid the juice boxes altogether.

Fortunately, recycling has been part of our lives since before the kids were born, and after seeing the movie Arctic Tale, the importance is much easier to explain, especially when Queen Latifah showed us how our choices will help their new favorite animal friends Seela, the walrus pup, and Nanu, the polar bear cub.

Get Boo'd

On Tuesday, we were Boo'd, sometime early in the morning by a very clever person. This is one of my favorite Halloween/October traditions - in the dark of night, or early morning hours, you go around to three houses in your neighborhood and leave them a bag of treats and a cute little note. All anonymous, and very fun.

Melissa Summers at AlphaMom put together a great piece on how she super-craftily decorated their bags, with additional links to more ideas.

Last year, I took this tradition to work, with some moderate success. This year, I suggested to my Dad that he Boo his friends at his retirement place. The whole thing is fun and in our family, makes Halloween last longer than a day.

I saw Al Gore today

Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, was in Palo Alto this morning. Thanks to a tip-off from a friend-of-a-friend, I was able to stand around with lots of press folks waiting for his arrival to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which incidentally, will receive 100 percent of the proceeds of the award. I snapped this picture of Al getting out of his care (a Mercedes E320 CID). I think I might have suffered a little elbow to the side, but it was worth it.

While hanging out waiting for Al, I had a chance to see a fellow mom I knew, talk with a nice lady about her big white dog, and talk with an employee of the Peninsula Open Space Trust about their recent acquisition. Way more exciting than an hour in the office!

Wordless Wednesday: Red Barn

Red Barn in Iowa, April 2007

Re-Tivo'd for the Season

We finally have our Tivo set for the new season of shows. Here is our Season Pass Manager line up:

1. Burn Notice
2. Desperate Housewives
3. House
4. My Name is Earl
5. The Office
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. Ugly Betty
8. Entourage
9. Psych
10. The Closer
11. How I Met Your Mother
12. Project Runway
13. The Unit
14. Nip/Tuck
15. Monk
16. 30 Rock
17. Big Love
18. King of the Hill
19. Heros
20. MI-5
21. Chuck
22. Private Practice
23. Back to You
24. Dirty Sexy Money
25. Pushing Daisies
26. Gossip Girl
27. Brothers & Sisters
28. Bionic Woman
29. Big Shots
30. Dirt
31. Reno 911!
32. Criminal Minds
33. CSI
34. Bones
35. Law & Order: CI
36. Law & Order: SVU
37. Cold Case

Wow, we watch a lot of television. The husband thinks some will drop off the list after we check out the pilots.

What's on your TIVO?

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