Check out a host of other edgy & fun recycling video shorts at http://www.Re3.org/flicks.htm

Mommy's Running List

Hello, Blog Reader!
This is my artsy blog, which I only update occasionally.
Click here for my other blog, Mommy's Running List, which is updated more frequently.
Thanks for visiting Space Pebble Mountain!

Love Canal update

Just happened upon a very interesting, in-depth update on the chronic health problems suffered by members of families unfortunate enough to have called Love Canal "home" back in the 1970s.
Love Canal, is the neighborhood that established the EPA's Superfund list of contaminated sites in need of clean-up. In the 1920s, the site had served as a chemical dumping ground for the Hooker Chemical Company. In 1953, Hooker covered over the 20,000 tons of chemical stew including such ingredients as Benzene and Dioxin and sold the property to Niagara, N.Y., officials for $1. The city -- even though warned by Hooker of the dangers posed by the buried chemicals (the deed to the property stipulated that Hooker would not be held liable for the toxic mess) -- developed the acreage, building an elementary school around which, by the late 1970s, some 800 single-family homes and 240 low-income apartment units had sprung up.

Please do read the article. It's very interesting, stomach-turning and eye-opening.

Not interested in what's happening hundreds of miles away from home? Click here for a list of Superfund sites in Sweet Home Alabama.

My New Favorite Blog of Note

The Junkraft is making its way across the ocean to raise awareness about the plastic soup we humans are creating in Earth's waters. The above link takes you to the crew's blog which follows their journey. This link, takes you to a post describing why they're doing what they're doing.
Recently, when asked what I'd do if I were a billionaire, among my list of answers was:
Try desperately to help figure out some way to stop and clean up the Trash Vortex, also known as The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
That's apparently the goal of the wonderful folks aboard the Junkraft. I plan to follow their journey from here on out and I'm absolutely thrilled with the folks at Blogger for featuring the junkraft blog on their Blogs of Note page!!!!

Don't believe the plastic in our oceans is a problem? Check out this photo of the stuff found in the stomach of one dead albatross.
Or this photo of where stuff ends up when it's throw out the car window (as people around here do all the time and several high school seniors even admitted it to me earlier this year!)
Blah!
OK.
There's no list today.
I just really needed to share this. I'm so glad there are people out there, getting all yucky dirty trying to clean up our Earth. The least I can do is sit here in my nice comfy home and try to help a little by spreading the word via computer.

My OutdoorsMen

Interactive Interview

A friend and former co-worker posted this tag-game on her blog but didn't really tag anybody. She left it open at the end for anybody who reads it and just wants to go with it. I like that! I don't really like tag/chain games but since I haven't updated Space Pebble Mountain in three months, this seemed like a fun way to launch myself back into the blogosphere.

1. What was I doing ten years ago?
Going to UNA full-time while serving as editor of the school's weekly newspaper, doing freelance work writing two or three advertorials each week for the local daily paper and working third shift at an answering service.
All that busy-ness pales in comparison to motherhood. But at least motherhood is enjoyable!

2. What are five things on my list to do today?
1 - call various roofers to schedule estimate visits
2 - pay the cable bill
3 - clean out the fridge
4 - do laundry (I don't even know why I put this on my list, since it'a daily chore)
5 - go for a run

3. Snacks I enjoy:
pan-popped popcorn (not the microwave stuff)
red delicious apple slices dipped in peanut butter
Edy's Double Fudge Brownie Ice Cream
Oreos
Doritos
Pop-Tarts

4. Things I Would Do If I Were A Billionaire?
1 - Set up trusts for my deserving friends and family to be provided for for the rest of their lives
2 - Buy massive amounts of undeveloped land that would otherwise be purchased by some greedy developer
3 - Help the homeless, hungry and otherwise downtrodden
4 - Try desperately to help figure out some way to stop and clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch


5. Three of my bad habits?
1 - I drink way too much coffee.
2 - I pick at/nibble my fingernails.
3 - Procrastination.

6. Five places I have lived?
1 - Fountain Run, Kentucky
2 - Manchester, Tennessee
3 - Fayetteville, North Carolina
4 - Fayetteville, Tennessee
5 - The Dismals Canyon in Phil Campbell, Alabama

7. Five jobs I’ve had?
1 - Newspaper Reporter for The News Courier
2 - Recycling Coordinator for Keep Athens-Limestone Beautiful
3 - part-time DJ at a country radio station (WXFL Kix-96)
4 - Assistant Director for a large (we were licensed for 173 children) Child Care Center
5 - Attendent at The Dismals Canyon in Phil Campbell, Alabama

8. How did you name your blog?
Check out a previous post,How This Mountain Did Arise, for this answer.


The rules of the game: Each player answers the questions about themselves in their post. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

I'm gonna tag some folks, but they only hafta play if it really strikes their fancy to do so! No pressure!
Here we go: Rebekah, AZ, Michael, Tim, Laura, Stephanie, Sam, Gretta, Kim, Marty, Barry.

Spring Flowers on a Saturday Afternoon