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Green House: Eco-Friendly Disposal And Recycling At Home

PBS is broadcasting a program on living green. According to PBS, the program will share strategies for conserving energy in one's home. At our library, we have a great little book on living GREEN. It is written by Norm Crampton and it provides practical information for adopting a greener and more earth friendly habits of disposal by promoting recycling and living a little lighter. In this book, all sorts of unimaginable items are mentioned for recycling like the following: Fireplace Ashes? Cat Litter? Grease? Light Bulbs? Dog Poop? Cooking oil? Diapers? Batteries? Computers and Hard Drives? Telephone Books?

Dollars to Doughnuts

Daily Devotional from Moments With You, Dennis & Barbara Rainey

If we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. Romans 8:25

Not long after I graduated from the University of Arkansas, a female friend came to me for counsel. She was dating a young man who happened to be my best friend. And though she wanted to marry him, he was uncertain about committing to her.

I had doubts, too, about whether they should marry. So I told her a parable I had recently heard, about a boy who’d been playing in his front yard when his uncle stopped by to visit. After talking for a bit, the man sprung a philosophical question on his five-year-old nephew: “If I gave you the choice, would you like a dime today or a dollar next week?”

The boy stood and thought. A dollar could buy him that rubber ball he’d seen at the corner store, but a “dime today” could mean a package of potato chips for his hungry late-afternoon stomach. So he took the dime, bought his snack and went home happy.

But about a week later, a buddy passed his house bouncing a new rubber ball. The boy then thought about his uncle’s offer. The chips were a distant memory, along with the dime that had seemed so valuable at the moment. If only he’d been willing to wait for that rubber ball later on.

There’s a lot of truth to that story, you know. Sometimes we’re so glamorized by the glint and gleam of the one thing we want right now that we’re not willing to wait and trust God for the something better He planned for us down the line.

I should know. Because just over a year later, this female friend of mine decided to marry someone else—my best friend’s best friend. Me. And even though there’s been a lot of inflation since then, Barbara says she got her dollar!

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3-Hour Diet

It works for me!! I feel some much better after eating SMALL portions throughout the day. I have more energy. I just need to be consistent with eating this way and I will see the results that I so desperately desire. A friend introduced me to this concept after losing 30 pounds by eating every 3 hours. At first, I was skeptical about eating so much on a daily basis and not worrying about what I eat. I had never heard of such. It is called the 3-Hour Diet.



The book is not available at the library where I work. So, I googled the title and found an informative article from WebMD about the 3-Hour Diet.

• Jorge Cruise believes that eating this way increases your metabolic rate--how fast your body burns calories, increase energy, and decrease appetite.
• Cruise believes that portions are very important as well as timing. And that there are no bad foods, just bad portions. If you learn to eat the right portion, at the right time, you will lose weight.
• Bottom line: (1) Eat breakfast within one hour of rising (2) Eat every three hours thereafter (3) Stop eating three hours before bedtime.

The latter is the hardest for me to do because I get off of work at 9pm. And, I am hungry when I get home. And, even more after riding my bike for 30 -45 mins.