Project Support Beauty in Nature

Today was Project Support Beauty in Nature.

I totally want to rename it, Project Make Nathan Come For A Walk With Us By Telling Him That We Are Only Walking To The Mailbox, Then Continue To Walk Further Down The Road, Thus Making Nathan Push The Pram Further While I Pick Up Rubbish.

Too long?

Okay, Project Support Beauty in Nature it is.

Because I am completely slack (and spent the entire morning taking photos of Amy in the garden) the camera’s battery was flat so I didn’t take play by play photos like Lotus does.

However, I did go for a nice long (okay it was short, but my roads are dangerous because we have no footpaths. Plus it was hot. And hello? We have snakes about the place. And the gravel was slippery. And it was 26C. And I was sweating. And the bag was heavy. Okay I will shut up now.) walk, with a plastic bag.

We picked up

One (1) empty long necked bottle of beer.

One (1) empty (and badly deteriorated) ice cream container.

One (1) empty chip packet.

One (1) empty can of Black Douglas and Cola (ICK! Who drinks that stuff?)

One (1) empty Boags Beer can.

One (1) plastic thingy that holds the beer cans together. (I can hear the penguins thanking me. Wait? I don’t have penguins? Okay, fish. No fish either? Dolphins? No? Eels? No? WELL! What was thanking me? Oh the rabbits? The wallabies? The *shudder* possums? Okay, I can deal with that. Maybe the cows even said a moo of thankyou. Those things could get tangled around a cows tail don’t you know! They are nasty those plastic things. Just waiting in the bushes to LEAP out and attack innocent animals.)

Lots (LOTS) of bits of broken glass.

AND

Some clingwrap (WTF?) an empty broken plastic pot plant container thing and some funny looking blue plastic bits that I am not questioning too closely.

Definitely worth the walk.

Even if the picture looks shoddy.

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As for green living, baby, I am all about the green. Especially as we don’t really have a choice.

We are on tank water so that means, a front load washing maching. (77 litres of water per full cycle as opposed to 167 litres)(Ooop’s sorry. 19.25 gallons vs 41.75 gallons).

It means shorter showers because we don’t have the water to waste.

It means bucketing water from the bathtub to the garden.

We don’t have roadside rubbish collection, so everything possible gets re-used. Plastic bottles get used as drink bottles or ice blocks. Actually, Amy has a bunch with lentils in that she shakes.

I re-use plastic bags as rubbish bags, freezer bags and covering the food in the fridge bags.

We try to be green. (Or would that be brown because we are in the middle of a drought?)

I want to set a good example for Amy when she grows up. I want her to put rubbish in the bin and food scraps in the compost. I want her to make less of an impact than I do, and her children even less still.

I don’t want much do I!