posted by jax1215 on Oct 30
Happy Halloween !!!
A lot of you’all have made jack ‘o lanterns for Halloween night. Don’t let them go to waste. If you live in a rural area, remember deer really like pumpkin. If you don’t, break it into smaller pieces and put it in your compost heap.
Hope you remembered to save some seeds from when you carved it out. Plant them next year.
I didn’t carve mine so I’m going to cut it up, save some seeds and feed the deer.
Jax
posted by admin on Oct 27
Jackie talks with Mary Jo Dyre, the director of The Learning Center a “green” school in Murphy, NC. Mary Jo shows off her school and her students learning how to be green by using a hands on approach.
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posted by jax1215 on Oct 22
Cooler weather has come to the mountains. Hopefully, short lived. In the mean time, it’s cold. We are like most folks here and do not want to turn on the expensive heat. We have a wood burning stove that I love. It does a great job but it just didn’t seem to get the heat out beyond the 6 foot range. I had a great idea of adding a small fan behind it to push the heat out into the living space. It worked. We’ve been toasty warm the last few days. Using the fan saves more energy than turning on the big heating units.
During all the rain we had this past summer, a neighbor lost a tree (right across our drive) The tree had been dead a long time so we have chopped it up and now have a fair amount of free firewood. We really need to spend a day getting all the dead wood off our land. We have 6 acres littered with fallen trees. Lots to do !!
Jax
posted by jax1215 on Oct 19
Sometime being green is so easy you don’t realize that you are. I have been caught up in the Fall craft season here in Western North Carolina. All I have time to do is work on crafts and hope I have enough for the next show. I made these cute little pumpkins that have sold REALLY well this year. As I was sitting out in the warm Fall sun, painting yet another 50 pumpkins, my mind was searching for some green projects to write about. I looked at what I was doing and realized I was doing one. I had painted scrap lumber from other projects, I was using half of a soda blottle to keep my brush water in, I was using the cap of said bottle to put the paint in. The ribbon and raffia was from some craft materials someone had given me. The stems of the pumpkins were from branches that had fallen on our property. How much more green could I be. (yes, I recycled the bottle after I was done with it)
Jax
