Water Part Two

So last night I filled up two measuring bowls with cool water in the kitchen sink while waiting for the tap to get hot to cook some rice. When I told Barb I did that, she said "why did you do that?" I said "so I would use less gas to cook the rice because the water would already be hot" and she said "but you had to use gas to get the hot water heater to heat the water to the hotter temperature so you could then save the same gas by using hotter water to cook the rice."

Sheee-it. Then it rained last night.

OK, so the moral of this story is that there is no need for your wife to know about your conservation attempts.

I hope people will take this water business more seriously than our neighbors have taken the recycling issue. It's not that hard: garden and kitchen wastes: green can. Recycling: blue can. Land fill: Brown can.

And yet, every Tuesday night their brown can is filled with blue can stuff, their blue can is filled with green can stuff, and their green can is empty. When I comment about it I feel like Ms. Wormwood sending Calvin to the principal's office.