Out and About Recycling on Thursday

 As you may know, we recycle--newspaper, other paper, drink cans, drink bottles, water bottles, batteries, prescription/otc bottles, Styrofoam, plastic wrapping film (tp packaging and such). You can imagine the clutter this makes. But, we keep it under control by having each in its own container. We do sell the drink cans and soup/tuna type cans. 

When I heard on the news that the Birmingham News demise was affecting the Birmingham Humane Society, I knew where the newspaper needed to be taken. They were asking for newspaper since the paper was no longer in business. So, today, we took a drive.

Tommy separated the paper from newspaper. I gathered all the prescription/pill bottles and we drove there to donate them. I talked to woman at desk and she came and carried it all inside. 

We picked up a prescription. Then, we collected this week's ads from three stores. Mustard was the free item this week at The Pig. There does not seem to be many exciting sales. But, I did not look at the Publix ad. Tommy said he circled items while I did shop in The Pig. 

If you live in the Birmingham area, maybe you can take a load of newspaper to the Birmingham Humane Society. We go to a battery store to recycle batteries. Publix takes the paper, bottles, and Styrofoam. 

When Lynda was speaking to us, we gave meat scraps to her dog. I would like to compost table scraps and veggie scraps, but Tommy is not amenable to the idea. I want one of the bins that sits up on legs and can be turned with a handle. 

Tonight, we are watching a PBS documentary with David Attenborough about bird songs. He was a strikingly handsome and virile young man! 

So, dinner will be something prepared from the store. The price was right. One dish has some sort of veggie ravioli and the other has asparagus and mushrooms. We can eat chicken thigh if we desire meat. I will put the exact dishes in tomorrow's post. 

I made a mistake. We just had the two dishes and both were beyond too hot/spicy for me. One bite of each made me ill, woozy, and ready to rid myself of both bites. If I did not hate to throw up so much, I would get rid of this. The red sauce had incredibly spicy sausage. The white sauce was the hot part with mushrooms and asparagus. I warned Tommy, but he can stand spicy food even though he does not care for it much. I have had strawberries, watermelon  tonight, apple, and banana tonight. 

Lunch was chicken sandwich with cheese and Romaine. Lunch was late, so brunch, I suppose. My temples are throbbing from a bit of spicy. My blood pressure is high, too. Ears are ringing. 

What do you recycle? 

Three Things Today

Today, I wanted to get up early and get started early. I had Tommy wake me at 9 am, and I got up and 9:30 and was ready to go at 10 am. Tommy is not accustomed to me feeling like going out that early...lol. So, he was rushing to put on pants. We had three places to go.

First, I needed to get some essential oils and rat poison. The other stuff only kills rats and mice, not everything that eats the poison or the mouse.  Animals cannot stand orange smell. So, I am going to take caps from water bottles, stuff a cotton ball into it and soak with orange essential oil that has other scents-- sweet orange, Spearmint, lavender, Ylang Ylang. Okay, I smelled it and it is strong! 

Last night, with a new potato and more of the Ratx, nothing came and ate. I am so disappointed. We will have to get someone to stuff steel wool into the hole. I have heard it does not work because things will just gnaw through the steel wool. 

Second, we needed more cups. I did get those and hope Tommy will soon consider the cost and agree to a dishwasher. I can hope. 

While there, I passed the Halloween dish towels. They were fifty cents each, so I got ten, just like I did last year. We use these freely. He asks for one when he is eating anything drippy. The way he has to lean back in his chair, not able to sit up fully, he drops stuff. So, this works, is cheap, and now we have more. While I was there, I got two potholders. For $0.50 each, they are a deal. 

I use these to put on the counter to drain dishes and another to dry dishes. They are handy. I got the towels and dish towels that are just fall themed and not bat or witch pictures. These even have mushrooms so a little retro looking. I don't think they are pretty, just clean and utilitarian. 

Third, we wanted to go to a newly opened food box giveaway. The other two have closed. These boxes are getting better! Thankfully, there are no goodies. The salty chopped chicken and the hotdogs are the only things I don't like receiving. Well, I love hotdogs and do not need them. 

A woman came to the car and volunteered we could have four boxes. She must have noticed our hesitancy and immediately told us to get it and give to neighbors. So, we got four and gave a whole one to young single mother in the neighborhood, the one whose father died. Total from 3 boxes we kept~~

• 3 one-lb chunks of sharp white cheddar cheese with bacon  
• 15 lbs potatoes
• 9 lbs apples
• 9 lbs onion red and white
• 3 tubs plain yogurt, 32 oz.
• 3 three-lbs bags chopped chicken
• 3 two-pound packages of bun-length hotdogs
• 3 overgrown cucumbers
•  6 tubs cottage cheese, 32 oz.
• 3 gallons milk  

I doubt I want the sharp cheese, but I will try it. Tommy loves it. I didn't know he likes plain yogurt or cottage cheese, but he does, as do I. I will freeze the chicken in 2 cup portions. The hotdogs are in the freezer in bags containing 6 hotdogs each. They lie flat with only 6 hotdogs and will make three meals per bag. We may have enough hotdogs to last a year, eating them sparingly. He has all the milk in the small refrogerator freezer.

There is too much salt in the chopped chicken, so I am going to try washing it off or cooking it and discarding the water. It is not healthy at all. 

We have a box of food to take and give to someone in a parking lot. When the Auburn game is over, we will go. I need a nap but need to freeze the chicken. 

We have two tiny gift bags of candy and soap bubbles for the children across the street and that will be our Halloween!