28 degrees this morning, Walk 36:13 miles
Earthquakes continue to increase in magnitude and number. Meanwhile, the cause of it (salt water wells) is allowed to continue although they are “voluntarily” being asked to reduce them!!!!
Right after I posted my journal Wednesday morning a 3.5 earthquake rolled through. Even though it was very short and no damage, I can guarantee you will remember it if you go through one.
That was only the third one I have felt, Aliene feels them on a regular basis and the earthquake app (and now local news) documents at least several per day just within five miles and probably 10 (on average) within 60 miles.
We are beginning to realize that around here the elected officials etc. really don’t care about residents. While the city we live in now has much better residential protection from commercial/industrial intrusion, the fact that the causes of the earthquakes are allowed to continue when there is almost a 100% chance of the cause of the earthquakes, they are probably setting themselves up for some extreme liability.
We are questioning now if we should have bought a house in this area at all when they really don’t seem to care what happens to residential areas and values.
While this is in the nearby city we used to live in, we have noticed two extreme instances of commercial development basically destroying the value of nearby residential areas. We have to wonder about how the elected officials and planning officials (and business developer) sleep at night realizing the destruction they are allowing to happen to residents.
Cut up some boxes for recycling last night. I don’t know why, but I really enjoy cutting up boxes. It isn’t the act of destruction, actually, I don’t consider it destruction. It is just something I enjoy doing.
I especially enjoyed it last night because I had a new “box cutting” knife and it was a joy to feel how it cut through the boxes.
For some reason, I can’t explain why I enjoy cutting boxes so much, but I just do!
Of course, it helps that we now live in a city that doesn’t exist in the dark ages on recycling.
This city provides a closed 105 gallons cart for recycling instead of the open 18 gallons recycling bins the last city had.
If you even felt the wind around here, you know how stupid (and that is the only word that describes it) continuing to use the open bins are.
Also, they recycle cardboard here, so my box cutting was for a reason, not just to throw the cardboard away.
This city recycles a lot more items than the other city. They do cardboard, plastic etc. that the other city somehow couldn’t figure out how to recycle,
That is the reason the recycling rate in the other city was a pathetic 18%, while in this city it is 83%!
Of course, recycling doesn’t really pay off right now, with the surplus of commodities, but I am sure sometime it will pay off again.
February is almost over, the second month of 2016. The year is really flying. When winter goes this fast, what will it be like this summer!
That’s it for now, Friday, February 26, 2016.
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