Cuteness, environmental randomness and cube landscaping
Categories: Cats, Environmentalism, heat, Photography, Random, silly projects, Uncategorized, Weather
I figured it was time for some gratuitous cuteness. Tennyson was about 2 months old when this photo was taken. This is proof that he was indeed small (less than 2 pounds!) once upon a time! He’s about 5 years old now and hovering around 16-17 pounds. I should take another picture with that same bonsai tree for fun.
While last Monday I posted pictures of snow from the nor’easter, today I’ll be taking photos of tulips and cherry blossoms out on my walk. It’s been very warm (low 80s) the past couple days, unseasonably so for April. It’s supposed to cool down starting tomorrow. It’s breezy today, as evidenced by my door slamming and opening every 5 minutes, so that bodes well for a change in the weather. Anyone still thinking global warming is a myth should look at the precipitation and temperature trends of the past few years.
Speaking of environmentalism and since Earth Day just breezed through… Here are some of the sites I feed the cute little (rabid) environmentalist in the back of my head:
- Grist: a great environmental news and information site. It’s not quite a blog, more like a news site with an opinionated slant. Oh wait, I just described half the “real” news sites. I’ll digress on the decline of media later…
- treehugger: a very green group blog. This blog collects all sorts of interesting news stories and information about going green, being green, eating green, and just green. Alternative energy, conservation, recycling and being a good environmental citizen are all topics touched on here.
- Living Plastic Free in 2007: The blog of EnviroWoman, a Vancouver 20-something who has decided to give up plastic completely for 2007 (anything leftover from 2006 is fine). She’s working hard to bring no new plastic into her life, especially the throw-away plastic you get everywhere. This blog is entertaining on many levels – EnviroWoman is witty and smart – but it also has made me think about how much useless plastic comes into (and is thrown out in) my life.
- Wise Bread: Not really an environmental blog as much as a sensible, money-saving blog, which often results in practices that don’t harm the planet quite so much. They recently ran an interesting series on Bottled Water Hype: Water, which is sort of ubiquitous, now arrives in plastic bottles, bottles that are polluting to create and polluting to get rid of.
And speaking of green, this week is Administrative Professionals Week and tomorrow is the big day (formerly known as Secretary’s Day). This means it’s time for my annual dredging up of a fabulous team project! Once upon a time, in a company far, far away, a beloved department admin mentioned she liked flowers. The result was Project Secretary’s Day: How to Build a Summer’s Day. If you’re really looking for a way to say thank you to the admin in your world, there’s no better “Thank you for doing a great job!” messenger than a fully landscaped cube. Seriously. I promise. A vase of flowers is pretty and all, but sod communicates true appreciation. Follow the link above for the full experience including “making of” pages to help you landscape your own (or your neighbor’s) cube.