World Water Day

Yesterday was World Water Day. I talked to my kids about what they can do to conserve water. I confess I love a long hot bath or a really hot shower but I read a 5 minute shower with a regular shower head can use 25 gallons of water. We've got a reduced flow shower head so that helps.

When you consider that contaminated water and poor sanitation are a factor in 88% of all diseases in the developing world and that thousands of people die daily because of water-related diseases and parasites, it really makes you think twice about wasting a single drop. Also makes me wonder about the water slide we enjoyed on my birthday. A new level of guilt.

Talking about water I had someone give me one of those really nice desk top waterfalls as a gift a few years back. I really enjoyed it and thought it would be great in my bedroom so that I could feel like I fell asleep next to a babbling brook. As it happened I began waking up in the middle of the night needing to use the bathroom LOL so I moved it to the kitchen.

What do you do to conserve water? Any water related stories?

It's my party ...

And I'll drink coffee and be lazy if I want to lol!

Yup. It's my birthday. And my birthday falls on the kidlets spring break this year so they're all here to celebrate. Well not HERE exactly because they're all still asleep and I'm at the computer.

This afternoon we're going to stay at a local hotel for one night. It has one of those fabulously scary water slides. Of course I'll be the one sitting poolside with my nose in a book. I hope to not even get wet. It's my birthday and I'll do it my way :)

Truthfully, as long as there is no cooking or cleaning involved in today's activities I'm a happy camper. I try to abandon any housekeeping one day a year. I'd avoid it all year if I could but once is about all I get away with lol.

How about you? What do you abandon when it's your special day?

What was he thinking?

We've all done it; something that seemed like such a good idea at the time and then, in hindsight, was just plain silly. Reading the news yesterday though I've got to wonder if Marcel Fournier of Vermont should get some kind of award for extreme bad ideas. You see Marcel is a hunter but he doesn't believe in playing by the rules. The rules were no killing of anterless deer (does) and no hunting at night. This guy bagged himself a deer (at night) but then went on to use bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point antler rack to the head of the doe. The game warden figured it out when the antlers felt loose. I guess the bolts and glue weren't as visible as one might think.

This hunter was sentenced to 10 days in jail and won't qualify for a state hunting, fishing or trapping licence for at least three years. I'm thinking they should've gone a step further. Out here there's a restaurant called Montana's Cookhouse . When it's your birthday you get to wear a moose head hat while everyone in the place sings happy birthday. In the name of entertaining your kids on your own special day, I admit to wearing the moose head. I think Marcel Fournier should've been sentenced to wear the moose hat for a year wearing a t-shirt that says "I bolted antlers to the head of a deer".

Speaking of birthdays ... well kind of... how did you celebrate your last special day?