I am up early today. My Moms and Pops are on their way down to catch a flight to Orlando. We love the mouse. We are catching up with them on Thursday for a long weekend in Florida.
I also wanted to direct you attention over to Jamie's blog and his round-up of Mayor Coleman's State of the City address. Mayor Coleman is really pushing for mass transit and bike friendly lanes and paths. Jamie has an excellent blog entry regarding that and I couldn't agree more.
I've mentioned many times previously on here that my employer is moving our offices to downtown. Although I live in Dublin, I believe that I can fully commute by bike and bus the entire way. I will have to get just a little creative for one section from about Emerald Parkway over the the Dale Drive COTA stop, but I think I will be able to manage. With my reduction in car use, theoretically, 20 days out of every month unless I have off site meetings, I will make a serious dent in my quest to reduce my footprint on our earth. I spend on average about $125 per month on fuel. That's about $4 a day in fuel. So $4 times 20 fewer days driving is about an $80 per month savings.
I got the okay to start a garden. I think I am going to start small at first to make sure I enjoy it and also make sure I don't have a black thumb. We really like pico de gallo style salsa, so I going to try a salsa garden with tomatoes, peppers, cilantro and onions. I am also going to try my hand at some carrots and cucumbers. I have a good compost pile started and its processing well. This will be an interesting experiment and hopefully have some fun at it too.
I've also been making some homemade bread. Now that's all anybody wants. I don't overly mind because I use a super simple recipe. In a future blog I will outline the ingredients and steps. I will also give you guys some ideas as how I mix it up a little so that we can have some various styles of breads. If anyone knows of a good rye bread recipe I would be grateful if you passed it along.
2 comments:
Begosh and Begorrah, Jason! Thanks for the link! Things are sounding really good for bicycling here in the Indy Art Capital of the World... or whatever our new, non-Cowtown nickname is.
Slainte - tip one for me.
Hey just stopping by to get my dose of green info. Always good stuff here! I am trying to compile a list of stuff I can do to reduce my carbon emissions. MTV had a commercial about it, and got me interested. I have been to www.earthlab.com and they have a ton of tips but I was mostly impressed by their page where they have their users send in tips: http://www.earthlab.com/life/tips.aspx Does anyone else know of other data bases that I can find these types of small things that lower my emissions? EPA or WWF maybe?
Thanks for all your info and drop me a link if you guys see anything worth my time.
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