Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

David sold 2 of his paintings the first day they hung in the library. How cool is that? They are both eagle paintings.

That spot on my thigh is still sore. Not as sore, but still sore.

My mind is totally blank right now. Could be lack of sleep. Or maybe too much sleep? I went to bed at 1:00 am and got up about 9:00 am.

We took the kids over to see the fireworks at Murray Park last night. They were pretty good, but the park was so crowded we had to sit on the lawn at Murray High School to see the fireworks. It was almost surreal looking across a bunch of rushing traffic and a Costco building to see fireworks. The fireworks were big enough, though that it was no problem seeing them. I think for the 24th of July we're going to go to Churchhill Jr. to watch fireworks. You can see the whole valley from there.

Something that's really been on my mind lately is global warming. David and I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" the other night. It's almost mind boggling seeing all of Al Gore's charts and graphs and photos. You can go to www.climatecrisis.com and find out more about it.

I was surprised and happy to find out that my carbon emissions are lower than most people's - in the US, that is. Still, there is so much to do. I am rather an environmentalist - at least in my head - to me it makes sense to reduce, reuse, recycle and all that. If you haven't seen the movie yet, you should. Before I saw the movie, I thought global warming was a myth, but I don't any more. Besides, even if it is - how could taking care of the environment possibly be a bad thing???

I was surprised to find out that the film made an impact on David. On the way home from fireworks he told me, "Seeing all of the smoke the fireworks left behind made me wonder how much carbon they were releasing in to the air." Wow. He gets it. We're on the same page about this. That is cool.