[Pollyanna]

Today? Well, while cleaning the cabinet under the utility room sink, I found 4 "empty" liquid laundry detergent jugs, so I rinsed them out well and used the resulting soapy water to do 2 loads of laundry. The jugs are now in the trunk of my car for drop off at the recycling bins tomorrow when I go to work (drive right by them.) I also went through my closet and pulled out a couple of items that I've not worn yet this summer and have them folded into a bag to take to work for our clothing closet.

In the past couple of days, I've recycled 3 weeks worth of newspapers by folding them together into stacks 20+ pages thick, then putting them over the weedy spots in my raised garden beds and covering them with shredded leaves saved from last fall. I recycled my dishwater and some of my bathwater by tossing it on the newspapers before I put the leaves on top. The beds should be weed free by time to plant the fall veggies.

I've also used some large shipping boxes that Hubs brought me home from his workplace to put down over the weeds in the pathways of the garden; then covered them with mulch. I tucked flattened boxes from grocery products under the larger cardboard before I put the mulch down. The mulch is shredded wood chips from the tree service. Shredded junk mail/paper went down around my raspberries, was soaked with dish/bath water, then covered with shredded leaves.

I've been having difficulty with deer eating one of my apple trees that I planted this spring, so I changed to using wood pellets for cat litter this past week; once scooped/de-pooped, I put it down as mulch around the tree and haven't noticed any new damage since. I think I'll use it under all my young (non-bearing) trees to prevent damage from deer/mice/etc..

I've used grocery bags to send sweet corn, green beans and new potatoes home with friends and family members who have dropped by.

Instead of tossing the peelings from the peaches I was putting up directly into the compost pile, I tossed them to my banty chicks; they made quick work of them. I need to make a lower compost pile so that they can get in and turn it for me!

My daughter is a cheerleading coach; her girls are saving aluminum cans to help defray some of their expenses; so our cans, and the cans from work are being saved for them - in a large cardboard appliance box - easier loading into the truck for taking to the recycler.