Going Green

We are slowly going green at our house. Over the summer we have done 4 "green" projects. While they may not seem like much, I like to think that we are trying to put forth an effort.

We have started to fix some repairs in our bathroom and while the finishing touches are going slow, we will be piling in 3 times the insulation that was in the wall. We also found and fixed the leak and thus our water bill is lower (a plus!).

We have also stopped using our dryer (although we were forced to since it has recently grown a mind of its own and won't properly work). Everything gets hung up in the clothes line. While Ayron is embarrassed to see his underoos flapping in the wind I say, "We all wear underwear [I hope] so why is it a big deal to see it out flying in the wind?"

We recently decided to put in a fire pit. Instead of buying new bricks (call me thrifty) we dug up an old "patio" and used those bricks to ring our pit. So maybe that was an effort to be more thrifty on my part, but it turned into a green project! We recycled didn't we?

Yesterday we started our landscaping project. Well, we started it a long time ago when we had to replace our waterline, but that is a past post. We started placing mulch around our trees and up by our house (where the bushes used to be before we tore into the yard). Instead of buying mulch (that can be expensive) we went to the county compost pile and brought home a large trailer full for.....FREE!!! Once again, the thriftiness on my part could be to blame, but why not used a recycled tree for free?