Hi folks!  At my sister’s suggestion, I just joined Technorait!  If you would like to check out my Technorati Profile, click on the link!  She said that joining Technorati is a good move to make if you want other folks to find your own blog easier!  I’m curious to learn more about it!

According to an article I read on a Reuters website, a study was written by the Clean Edge and environmental nonprofit Co-op America that declared solar power will be cost competitive with fossil fuels like natural gas and coal by 2015. I think that this is wonderful news; I’d like to see a lot more alternative energy sources developed and expanded as well!

I’d love to see solar energy, wind energy, and gasoline made from algae to be our every-day energy sources! I’m sick and tired of the constant price increases of gasoline, and being held hostage by the companies and countries that are raking in record (and obscene) profits from their oil.

I was reading an article in the LA Times about how recent research has determined that some new shower curtains give off toxic chemicals for up to an entire month after they have been opened. Not all, but many shower curtains are made with PVC, a type of vinyl that has been linked to many health hazards. Some shower curtains are made from a safer ethylene vinyl acetate, and some are made from fabric.

I think that in the future, when I buy a new shower curtain (or curtain liner!) I will look carefully at the label and see what it is made from before I buy it! If it’s made from PVC, I will be putting it back on the shelf!

In a couple of weeks I will be attending a Red Hatter club meeting, where we are all to bring a contribution of a dish prepared from one of the Red Hat Society cookbooks. Yesterday I went over to our “queen’s” house and borrowed her Red Hat Society cookbooks to look through.

I love to browse through cookbooks, and dream of having the time to try so many yummy dishes, and dream of having a family that is willing to try them all! I found several recipes that I would like to try on my own for my family. I’ve invited my younger sis to join us for the Red Hatter event, and emailed her one of the recipes for her to fix and bring. It sounds really yummy and easy to whip up. I hope she comes, and brings it!

This is the recipe I sent her to try:

“Pink Stuff”

From the Red Hat Society cookbook pg 276

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 (12oz) container whipped topping, thawed

1 (20 oz) can cherry pie filling

1 (15 oz) can crushed pineapple, well drained

1 (15 oz) can mandarin oranges, drained

Red food coloring – a few drops, optional

Stir together the condensed milk and whipped topping. Fold in the cherry pie filling. Fold in the pineapple and oranges. If you want a deeper pink color, add a few drops of red food coloring. Refrigerate at least 4 hours prior to serving.

I’m looking forward to the event!

There has been so much rain around here lately that it has been hard to do any outside work. My mother had hired some people to do some remodeling of her house and they got their trucks stuck up to the axles in her back yard! They tore her back yard up very badly trying to get unstuck! They also ruined her drain field for her septic system! What a mess! We told them that they were going to have to pay to have the lawn fixed, and the drain field, and they weren’t happy to hear that at all! But they should have known better than to have driven over the lawn and drain field! Big dummies!