The Green Thing!

Checking  out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.  The woman apologized to the   young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags  as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early  days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief(remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred  by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up oldnewspapers to cushion it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn  gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a r azor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green  thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off... especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.

Dog Days of Summer

August has arrived with sultry days, misty mornings, and a world in turmoil.  Our President and his people seem incapable of dealing with the many issues that have arisen in the past few years.  It is as if one crisis follows another in an almost predictable fashion.  Planned and exploited???  Something to ponder, and yet, for me...at the end of each day, I hand it all over to God and thank him for peace and goodness, for love, for wisdom....admittedly all qualities I must work harder at on some days than others.  Many prayers are sent out to those in power asking for them to remember their callinge/election is a humble role serving the people of their countries to improve the quality of their lives, ensure freedom to educate, worship, work, and live in a peaceful environment. It is evil to use that role to serve large money contributors, sustain elegant homes, and extravagant life styles at the expense of the populace.  What  is done to the least of mankind will be done to you.....remember this always.

A few notes on Chocolate Horse Farm.....five fillies this year !  We were blessed with some lovely fillies, and all are doing well. Names are Tillie, Tess, Izzi, Lindi, and Mischa.  Will share more on each in subsequent posts.  I will tell you " One " will be going to the Missouri State Fair Gypsy Horse Show with her mother and of course, ourselves.  It will be a happy crowd this year, with our SD connections, Shelli from CA, and Josie our 'barrel riding, horse training, Sparky friend, all round horse girl".  Yes, it will be an awesome break in the every day.

                                                                    HOWDY ALL!

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