Amazon's new wireless reading device, Kindle, is a way for avid bookworms to indulge in their favourite hobby and save trees at the same time.
It is an electronic device, for which you can buy memory cards, onto which you can download and keep books. Instead of having heaps and heaps of paper, you have one hand held tool in which to store all of your reading material.
Not only is it green for not requiring paper, it's frugal as well : after the initial device purchase, down loadable books are far less expensive than the paper version.
Hmmm. This might be on my Christmas list ;-)
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Dangling Cherries...
We have a cherry tree, which in some years produces lots of cherries, and some years not. Part of the issue is timing - getting to the cherries before the birds do.
This year there are TONS up there. Dangling, in their almost-red glory, perfectly unpecked and pristine. Too soon to pick them (the birds think so too), so they hang there and tease me.
"The birds might get us before you do!!! Neener neener neeeeeeener!!!"
Oh I've already picked some, a few of which were actually ripe enough to eat. I'd jump up, grab a branch and pluck cherries from it, reluctantly releasing the branch with many partially green ones still hanging from it.
My father-in-law will eventually make his way over here, and armed with a bucket and a ladder, empty the rest of the tree. One year the harvest was spectacular; the next, paltry and picked over. Meanwhile I'm left to stand under the tree, my hand shading the sun from my eyes, gazing up at the high high branches heavy with fruit, and wait...
(Hey!!! I could use one of the kids' super soaker squirt guns and shoot at the birds!! I could set myself up with a comfy lawn chair... glass of lemonade... hmmm...)
sigh.
This year there are TONS up there. Dangling, in their almost-red glory, perfectly unpecked and pristine. Too soon to pick them (the birds think so too), so they hang there and tease me.
"The birds might get us before you do!!! Neener neener neeeeeeener!!!"
Oh I've already picked some, a few of which were actually ripe enough to eat. I'd jump up, grab a branch and pluck cherries from it, reluctantly releasing the branch with many partially green ones still hanging from it.
My father-in-law will eventually make his way over here, and armed with a bucket and a ladder, empty the rest of the tree. One year the harvest was spectacular; the next, paltry and picked over. Meanwhile I'm left to stand under the tree, my hand shading the sun from my eyes, gazing up at the high high branches heavy with fruit, and wait...
(Hey!!! I could use one of the kids' super soaker squirt guns and shoot at the birds!! I could set myself up with a comfy lawn chair... glass of lemonade... hmmm...)
sigh.
Reducing Junk Mail
This I'm definitely going to do: add myself to the national Do Not Call list to reduce the amount of junk mail I get (not to mention those telemarketer calls ;-)
Log on to: http://www.the-cma.org/ On the right hand side of the page there's a link for "'do not contact service". It takes about 6 weeks to go into effect. We'll see what kind of a difference it makes...
Log on to: http://www.the-cma.org/ On the right hand side of the page there's a link for "'do not contact service". It takes about 6 weeks to go into effect. We'll see what kind of a difference it makes...
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