Happiness in a New Place

We have been working away on our home, trying to get everything cleaned up and pianted and all the projects finished before it goes on the market at the end of the month. I've been having a really hard time with the thought of leaving Portland. Last night I was reading through a guide on moving (yes, it was Martha Stewart) and got all teary when the line "Take a final walk through after the movers have finished to make sure nothing is left behind." This is our first house - and I'm simply having a hard time leaving it. We had Toms' apartment in Boston and our apartment when we moved here; but this has been the first place we owned, the first place we could put our mark on. It looks great, too. It is so hard to think we're leaving it just as soon as we have everyhting we (I) wanted to do, done.

I was going through my email today and found a link through my Sierra Club "The Green Life" Daily Tips that Really made me feel so much better. CHARLESTON RECYCLES! Go Green Charleston has tips, comments and general information (even about reusable bags and what grocery stores sell them) about living green in Charleston! I am SO Happy! Going to visit Mom and Dad in Tennessee has been so hard because they don't recycle ANYTHING! Some people in Tennessee are now trying to get a bottle bill passed to reduse litter on the roads, and that is the one thing my family has been saving to recycle - soda cans. But otherwise it is just so difficult to watch all the cans and glass and paper that goes into the trash when I'm there. I feel like one visit there undermines all of my green effort for the year. At home I recycle everything! We barely have one full bag of trash each week, otherwise it is seperated and recycled, I even have a bin for taking plastic bags and #5 plastic to New Seasons. I also got a new resturaunt recomendation and a list of farmers markets and a herbry in Charleston. I have been excited about starting a new herb garden. All these links from one little tip!