The small price of being “green”

I must say that we do our very best to be as green as possible. We sure don't wear it on our sleeves and don't tell the world about it, but for the past six or seven years, we've been acting as responsible earthlings. First, when we move into our current small house, my wife convinced me not to install an automatic sprinkler system for the lawn and the plants, something everyone does in this high-desert climate. The bottom line is that we save big on watering, our lawn develops a much stronger root system and while it turns yellow in August, when October comes around, it rebounds back to be as green as our next door neighbors who all pour rivers of water on their grass. Ever since recycling became available to us, we've been doing it all along and going all the way into incorporating its functionality into the design of our new kitchen.

Then, we started composting religiously and instead of bagging our huge quantity of tree leaves before dumping them, we compost them all. That's what we've been doing for the past couple of days. We started with about 60 cubic feet of leaves, mulched them all and ended up with only 15; it's a lot of work, but it keeps us fit! I've already mentioned in this blog that we are totally committed to our organic veggie garden that we'll expand and improve again next year. We may be getting older, but we've never been as green as we are today!