TravelingMel

I was cruising Craig's List a couple weeks ago. I was hoping to find an old horse trough to use in the garden like this.

I couldn't find any horse troughs and no one answered the wanted ad I put up. What I did find was an ad for eggs.

We'd love to have chickens, but that's not in the cards right now. We'd love to buy local, free range eggs, but they are close to $6 a dozen in the store. When I saw the add for local, free range eggs for $2 a dozen, I jumped all over it. Now we get eggs delivered to our door every Wednesday.

Free range chickens lay eggs with thicker shells, deeper-colored yolks and better taste. Most importantly, these chickens have good lives. The eggs you normally get from the store come from chickens in really horrible, disgusting situations. I won't go on since you can easily find out about industrialized egg production yourself.

I am ecstatic to find good eggs at a good price. And they come to me.

Frying them up.

H is pretty psyched about the eggs, too.

H is building some new garden beds, so that's taken care of, too. If you come across an old horse trough, grab it for me! I'll still use it.

If you don't already know, H is in Churchill filming polar bears right now. He'll be up there for two more weeks working for an organization called Polar Bears International. Once he gets some of his stuff posted I'll link to it here.

But, until then, here is another video produced for PBI. It's science, folksy music and environmental issues all wrapped up in cuddly polar bear fur. Right up my ally. I even tear up when they talk about the ice pack retreating. It's unbelievably sad that we will probably lose all this in my lifetime.

I posted about PBI and how you can help slow climate change (the polar bears' biggest enemy) at my other blog. And I posted the video here. (I'm just plugging my other blog, you can watch the video below.)

On that note, here's the video (It's more upbeat then I let on. Anders likes it.)

This Saturday, March 28th a worldwide event is taking place called Earth Hour. The plan is that everyone turns off their lights for 1 hour at 8:30 pm local time.

This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming.

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.

This is the third year for Earth Hour, so if you missed the last two (as I did) this is your chance to participate.

Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.

You can watch this video to find out more (it's about 3 minutes). It's a little dramatic, but I suppose the situation we are in is also dramatic. And I have to admit it did make me tear up a little bit.

So, if you want to participate cruise on over to the website and get registered! I did.

Here's a funny news bit. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is asking Whitefish High School in northwestern Montana to change its name to "Sea Kitten High School".

From Montana CBS:

What's wrong with the name Whitefish High School? According to P.E.T.A., the use of the word "Whitefish" does not promote empathy for fish and other marine animals.

P.E.T.A. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal) sent a letter to Whitefish High School Principal Kent Paulson, urging him to change the name of the high school from "Whitefish High" to "Sea Kitten High".

P.E.T.A. launched their Sea Kitten Campaign in October, in hopes that everyone will start referring to fish and other marine animals as sea kittens.

The letter states, "we're proposing that Whitefish High School adopt a new name to reflect the gentle nature of it's current marine namesake. If the town starts calling fish, "sea kittens", fewer of these gentle animals would be violently killed for food, painfully hooked for "sport," or cruelly confined to aquariums".

If you are so inclined, you can read about PETA's re-branding efforts here.

All I can picture is little wet kittens. They hate the water.

I'm a vegetarian and all for animal rights, but this sounds more like a joke than a real campaign.

Watch out Salmon, Idaho--you may be next!

Thanks to Big Sky Blog for the heads up.

I have two things to say today: Yeah for an Obama victory!!! I know I have a few readers who are not fans of our president elect, but for the rest of us it feels like a new day.

Not to be too overstated, but finally a president we can be proud of. Like he said in his speech, we have a long road ahead of us and it won't all be rainbows and daisies (the rainbows and daisies are my words, not his), but I think the country is rejuvenated and ready to get to work repairing our economy, getting out of Iraq and restoring our standing in the global community.

The second issue of the day is that I now hate daylight savings time. Well, I don't hate it, but I hate that Anders did not get the message on the time change and is getting up at the crack-of-before-dawn every day. Sunday it was 5 am, yesterday 4:45am, today 5am. I am going to have to start a Pika call on this blog for Anders. H and I are feeling a little tired.

Any tips for making a 21 month-old with a ton of energy sleep? Putting him to bed later does not help. Yelling "Go to sleep" from our bed does not work. Now that he is getting an hour less sleep at night he is falling asleep while eating lunch. Henry had to wake him up the other day to get him to swallow the bite of sandwich in his mouth!

I know I said there were only two things to say, but here is one more: H put up a bunch of photos at his site. Surf on over.