Going Green

For years I have been watching people take on the "Going Green" frenzy. I was never ambitious enough to apply myself.
Now, I too, can say I have been pulled into the rip tide of it all.
I started with signing up with my community recycling program. Out came the bins to sort each item. Little did I know, as I looked at those bins, that my obsessive personality would take over and in the next few weeks I would become the sorting queen that my family would grow to loath.

I never thought sorting trash could be so fun. In goes the yogurt containers, milk bottles, cups etc. In goes all the newspaper and cardboard I could think of. I never knew how much cardboard there was in all the things I bought! Cereal boxes, granola bar boxes, so many boxes!
I felt so guilty for not recycling before. My trash has never been so empty.

So on to the next item on my going Green list- the garden.
This year my goal for my garden was, to look as good as the Obama's garden did, with all the White House gardener's tending it. You must keep up appearances you know. HMMM.

Today was the day. Wake up kids! Little did they know they were going to be the cheap labor I would be using for the next 3 hours.
Into the garden I stepped. Note to myself- remember to never weed garden right after sprinklers have been running. The idea of buying a pig a few weeks ago, did not look so bad anymore.
Mud up to my ankles, armed with garden gloves and buckets, the weeding began. We renewed the system of pulling and emptying and pulling and emptying each bucket. With each pull of a weed my goal became more of a reality. Me and Michele Obama together, walking down rows of carrots, deciding what to eat each night for dinner. Would she too like beets, or would she rather have corn?
Three hours later, the deed was done. If you have never had the privilege of weeding a muddy garden, it is truly a blessing. Each weed I pulled made me realize how easy it is to achieve things, it just takes gloves and a desire to do it.
So I can now say I am a accomplish er of "Going Green". Come join the frenzy!