tilting for worms

Oh my gosh! I just confirmed the coolest thing today.

So at work this week I’ve been watching the robins outside my window. As most people know, robins aren’t like many other birds in that they will not sit at a bird feeder and eat seed. No, they like a challenge each day so they hunt worms on the ground.

As I was watching them I noticed that they kept tilting their heads toward the ground. It looked as if the robins were listening for the worms. Well! After looking it up, indeed the robins are using their hearing to find worms. How cool is that?

Next time you see a robin looking for worms check to see if it tilts its head toward the ground.

those phony green products

When is green not being green any more? The simple answer is if we look at a scale. Is what I am doing helping or hurting creation? Of course life is not this simple. For example, I have to drive to get to work. There is no way around it. It is simply too far away for me to walk or bike to work. And it simply takes too long to take public transportation. If we were to give a simple solution for this, I could just quit my job and find one that is closer where I can be more green. Of course we all know it just is not that simple.

So, there is a lot of grey in being green. There is also a lot of black and white. Recycling, being more conservative with energy, is being more green. Not recycling, throwing trash to the ground is not being green. Being green can also be hard when we add as variable time and money. It is hard to walk to the grocery store and when you drive it saves forty minutes. It is hard to buy consumer products that are less harmful to the earth when they are double the cost.

And then there is Target. With it almost being Earth Day (April 22) Target came out with some “be green” products. Unfortunately, the products aren’t very green. The first is a sign from the dollar bin. It says to recycle and be green. Yet the product is neither made from recycled material nor is it made in an environmentally conscious way. Plus, it was shipped all the way from China. Second, is a note book promoting being green. Although the product had some recycle materials in it, it was still shipped all the way from China.

These products, while they may be promoting “being green” are completely hypocritical, and all for the sake of promotion. They may seem like a green product, but are most certainly not.

you know - that wedding

I told you the blog was going to feel new.

It’s been just over a month now since I got married out in Massachusetts. We still haven’t received the wedding photos from the photographer yet, but we do have plenty from our friends and family who attended. I put together a short slideshow of some of our photos.

The photos are of the wedding chapel, the Inn where the reception was at, and a few photos from the wedding.

It’s doesn’t feel like over a month now, but we are finally getting settled into our new apartment and just in time for a great Easter.

new feel to the blog

After my blog’s existence for almost a year and a half, I’ve decided to refurbish the content of the blog. The blog’s motive was to bring relative content and reflection from me on real world events. I am not going to do away with that completely, but change the attitude of the blog in general. My blog has not received much traffic since its conception, mostly due to my lack of publicity and marketing, so these changes are directed at my daily readers. The blog will become more commonplace - relating to my own life instead of merely an informative blog.

I’ve decided to do this to expand the content of my blog and to continue to add content on a more regular basis. I’ve only got so many original musings about this world and many of them are from my daily life, anyway. I would like to increase the content without crowding the blog with unproductive information and half-thought-out blog posts. The blog will now be more of a convergence of my daily life with my reflections on world events and issues as I encounter them. Hopefully this will enhance the blog instead of subtract from its relativity.