While driving this week I have seen antelope almost every day……alive not dead.   I had a fox run in front of the car on Monday, still alive also.

There is a white hawk circling the chickens.  I have seen it twice.  Beautiful bird hope it does not take a liking to my little dog or the chickens.

I have been trying to walk at least three days at week at work. During my walk I found this amazing    piece    of       art?

What do you think?  Interesting? Bet it makes for some interesting conversations for drunks at the neighboring apartments.

Do you regularly see wildlife?  or Art?

To all the mothers ………………..

May your day be beautiful!

House plants are something that I was never going to have in my house.  Never say never, right?

About 15 years ago I went for allergy testing and one of my triggers is mold in dirt.  In my head I figured no houseplants would save me this trigger.   Fast forward to Cheri getting her life healthier and that includes the air quality in the house.

I read this post from Kitchen Stewardship about the ways to improve air quality in your house. 

Enter my house now and you will see

This is a golden pothos, it needs to be repotted but that is for another day.  This plant is poisonous to pets and children. 

Blurry pic of the English Ivy.  There is indoor and outdoor English ivy.  This plant can help with asthma and allergies. I need help with those areas so if this plant helps I may buy more.  This plant is tolerant  in low light and lazy watering.  perfect for this novice plant owner.

NASA performed an clean air study to prove that plants can improve air quality.

List of air-filtering plants

NASA recommends 15 – 18 good sized plants to filter an 1800 sq. ft. house.

Do you think your air quality is fine?  Do you have carpet? Mattress? Plastic? Paint? Varnish?Then you probably have at least one of these chemicals in your house benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and toluene and last is ammonia.

If plants can get these chemicals out of my air then I will be buying more, if the two I have live.  This is a test to see how they survive.

Do you have houseplants?

Congrats to my raid team PBR!  We have finally cleared all of tier 14 content.

Photos courtesy of Hefeweissen at Zombiepope.com.

Now we are going to start wiping on Throne of Thunder.

Big Congrats to Team PBR!

Do you drive long distances?  Spend lots of time alone and need some silence filler?  Walk or run?  Get tired of the same songs on repeat?  My answers are yes, yes, yes and yes.

I have been driving for 10 years next month.  10 YEARS!  wow.  Where has the time gone? Easily distracted?  yes sometimes.

Back to my entertainment….  I started with the radio, you know old faithful.  Too many commercials.  I was amazed at how many commercials appear in an hour.  I tried talk radio on AM and same problems  commercials.  Enter Sirius xm.  This frugal girl got tired of giving out my money.  Bye Bye Sirius.

Enter iTunes, with their varied free, did I mention free, podcasts.  I go through phases with my podcasts here are some of my current favorites.  Hopefully I can get show you a new podcast that will keep you entertained .

Adam Carolla, yes the same man from The Man Show.  He is seriously funny and very sarcastic.  Adam has many podcasts under his banner.  Remember Love Line with Dr Drew?  They have reunited for a podcast. 

Christopher Titus, another comedian and very funny.

Joe Rogan, comedian, see a theme?  Be prepared for some long podcasts, his can run over 2 hours.  Joe can make you think but, beware it is not safe for kids.

My entertainment would not be complete without some World of Warcraft podcasts

Tauren Think Tank this is an advice podcast with great intellectual guests.

The Instance my first and longest running podcast.  The host Scot Johnson has many and varied podcasts as well as The Morning Stream.

Convert to Raid great podcast about raiding in the World of Warcraft.  The hosts are very funny and very information on boss strategies.

While I listen to these on iTunes there are many platforms that support podcasts.

Stitcher is a great way to find new podcasts and you can stream from your computer.

Do you have any podcast recommendations?

Today there will be no pictures.  Such a  sin in the blogging world. 

There will be some deep thought.

Some introspection. So let’s go!

Do you ever stand in a grocery store and wonder about the convenience that used to be in your life?  I do. 

Do you ever think “what could it hurt?”   I do.

Do you ever justify that creamer, gum, or green chili purchase?  I do.

Today.

While at the grocery store I realized there are times I miss the convenience of grab and go.  While reading labels, yep I am that woman, I wonder why the name brand has more chemicals than the off brand.  Do you ever wonder about that?  Does the name brand make more and therefore need more chemicals?  Are they helping us stay healthier?  Nope.  Am I healthier because I read lables?  Maybe.

There is a saying that ignorance is bliss.  It can also fill you full of chemicals.  I am saying NO to all the chemicals put in my food.

I think about convenience most especially when I need to make toothpaste, lotion, moisturizer, cleaning supplies, and dinner.

I know if I just planned a little better and shopped a little better that my convenience food would be easy and quicker than take-out.  I am trying.  I say if I and what I should say is my life is full.  I work a 40 hour week, drive 10 hours a week, try to workout for 5 hours. The drive and workout equal a part-time job.

I am not complaining just stating where all my hours go.  Some days when I get home I just want to sit.  Today unfortunately I need to make toothpaste, shred cheese and cook dinner all before I sit.

My goal for this summer is to plan better and make my own convenience food. Maybe that better planning will involve spreading out the making of products so that all do not come due at the same time.

Do you have this issue?  How do you solve it?