We were catchin’ a bite to eat and a swallow to drink last night at BWW with some friends when Kendra mentioned this guy standing outside IN a flowerbed.   Now this isn’t a huge flowerbed, just a small one with a few different plants in it and this big footed fool was standing right dead center in it.  Not only that… talking on his freakin’ cell phone.  Come on brother… move along.  So we snapped his dumbass picture and put it on the webtranet.  Take that.

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I think this one falls under that “Make a difference” category.  If this doesn’t hit you in the face like a ton of bricks… then you have no heart Tin Man.  No heart at all.

Pictures of Our World of Waste - see just what you are contributing to.

By stopping your addiction to plastic, you can really make a dent in this HUGE problem we have.  Stop buying individual drinks in plastic containers.  Even when recycled, it takes a lot of resources to do the recycling.  By cutting down on the amount of bottled water or soda you drink it can be an easy way to make a difference today.

Hope this hits home with a few people at least.  That is the point.

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One of our fellow blogging buddies posted today about a little Australian Shepherd by the name of Speck.  He is one of those dogs that is so ugly that he is cute.  If that makes sense.

This 16 week old little pup is blind unfortunately, but doesn’t seem to care regardless.  He is a happy pup with loads of energy and he is currently located in Houston, TX.

The reason for this post isn’t to just show you how cute the pup is, but to urge anyone that can help Speck by giving him the love and home he deserves.  The current owner does not want him, but this just means that you can come in and save the day.  Ghost said that the current owner would deliver the dog, however depending on location I am sure something would be arranged (since Speck is in Houston at the moment).  If you are interested in saving Speck, leave a comment over on ghost’s blog. 

Click here to visit the blog. 

Enjoy the pictures of Speck below.

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When we started gardening as a hobby we learned so much about ourselves.  Gardening isn’t just about pulling weeds and watering veggies.  Deep down it teaches us how to live life, how to expect the unexpected and so much more.  We took the time and listed the 6 Lessons We Learned From Gardening in hopes to open the eyes of everyone that isn’t gardening and to help shed light on the deeper meaning behind it.

Enjoy our list and make sure to share this article with your friends and fellow gardeners.  If you haven’t, subscribe to our RSS Feed and view our blog entries at your leisure.

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This is still the only earth we have, so that is why earth day is so important.  If you do nothing today but pitch a few cans in a recycle bin, you are at least respecting this beautiful earth we were given to live our lives on.  With all the green initiatives going on around the globe, we felt it was time to link up all those companies doing something (no matter what the reasoning) to help the environment.

Read about Earth Day at Wikipedia

Simple Choices… Big Differences (Wal-Mart)

Waste Not, Want Not (IBM)

Searching For Solutions (Google.org)

Save Energy, Reduce Waste (Best Buy)

Green on MSN (Microsoft)

Yahoo! Green (Yahoo!)

Fuel Solutions (Chevrolet)

The More You Know (NBC)

Everyone is getting on board with the whole “Green” thing, so why aren’t you?  We recently made a trip to HEB (our local grocery store) and while we were there we noticed they were selling the bags that replace the plastic bags.  One of our friends had said that she got some and so we did the same while we were there. They were about a dollar a bag and we grabbed 5 of them.  It isn’t much, but it is something that can be done easily and quickly and believe it or not, it will make a big impact is more and more people follow suit.  See below for a picture of the green grocery bags.

Make this Earth Day an important day to you and your family and lets start making these little changes that if adopted by everyone, could start to turn this environmental crisis around.  It isn’t too late.

Update: Julia Roberts was on Oprah and they were talking about using reuseable shopping bags when going to the grocery store.  We are pretty sure Oprah reads our blog and then plans her coming shoes by it.  They also talked about replacing your current light bulbs with CFLs.  Again with the copy cat stories?  Tisk tisk Oprah.

There was a good book on Oprah from author - Sophie Uliano called Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life.  Cool book with lots of tips on composting, product selecton and organic information.  She had some worming composters on there seemed fairly cool - but I’m still not to sure about the composting thing just yet.  We have a small bucket we are composting gardening scraps and clippings.  That is about as far as we have gone.

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