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Save your money and drink filtered water

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I was just discussing how wasteful I think the purchase of bottled water is on my other blog My World.

I’ve never understood why people buy case after case of bottled water. Recent news reports have stated that tests and investigations have shown that the bottled water that is often marketed as spring water is really just local water.

So that means that you are paying more per liter or gallon for bottled water that’s the same as the water coming out of your tap than for gasoline for your car. Think about it!

if you really don’t like the taste of your local tap water why don’t your try one of these new portable water filters. I think they’re a fantastic idea. Just fill the bottle with tap water and it gets filtered right away. Yummy.

You won’t be throwing away plastic bottles that may or may not be recycled. You’ll save money and you’ll still have decent water to drink.





What a beautiful photo

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I love this photo!

To me it seems like the mother and baby elephant are laughing together as the sun sets.

I’m envious of my brothers. One lived in Africa for a few years, and another recently went there for a holiday. The holiday brother has also been to India recently and both of my brothers have likely seen sites like this one – or at least these animals in the wild.

One day I’d like to see a sight like this with my own eyes. How glorious that would be.

It’ll be quiet around here soon

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Haha! I think it’s going to be a little quieter around here for a while! Our noisy neighbors are going on vacation! An orlando vacation. Yeah!

I think they are leaving sometime next week and they’ll be gone for at least a week. No more karaoke parties for a while! No more tuba or electric guitar vibrating through my walls. Yeahhhhh!

Then, as I said the other day, they might also be moving! They’re going to put their house up for sale sometime in September to test the market. Oh I hope that they get an offer or two! Their house is a corner lot which I’ve heard are harder to sell, but then they have almost twice the yard space of everyone else in the neighborhood so that might help them sell.

Oh I can’t wait for them to go on their holiday and then maybe move away.

My brother the baseball fanatic

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My brother, the one that lives in the Toronto area, is a huge baseball fan. So much so that one of the first things he suggested for our family reunion that’s coming up at the end of August was that we all go to a baseball game. So yeah, we’re going to see a Blue Jays versus the Red Sox game on August 31st.

I’m not a huge baseball fan myself but I do prefer to watch it live rather than on TV. So our get together at the baseball game should be fun.

Anyway, back to my brother. He’s decided that he’s going to get world series tickets too. Oh did I mention his wife is also a huge baseball fan? Yes, they even went on a trip to Florida about 10 years ago just to visit Spring training camps. So I’m not surprised that they want to finally go and see the World Series.

Have you been to the World Series? If not – would you be interested in seeing a game if you could?

What happened to that Pirate show?

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There’s so little to watch on TV that lately Chris and I, in our down time, have been reduced to watching cartoons on TV! King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama. I’m starting to feel like I’m back in lower school or high school!

I’m so bored of television! It’s not like I watch much TV, but when I do feel like watching there’s never anything on.

What happened to that Pirate show – Pirate Masters? – that was on Thursday nights? I thought it was only going to have a one week break, but it wasn’t on this week either.

I guess we’ll have to start renting some movies or something.

If my husband had his way we’d always watch war and religion based documentaries. Not that some of those aren’t interesting and or informative from time to time, but when it comes to documentaries I prefer biography, travel, history, and wildlife related documentaries.

What do you like watching on TV these days? Are you are bored as I am?

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