Greg's General Store

Well tomorrow is Earth Day 2009. I hope everyone does a little something to make this world a better place to live. I suggest planting a tree or anything at all. This year, many of the stores are running out of vegetable plants because of the large number of people who are growing their own. Growing your own vegetables does several things. First off anything that goes into the ground is absorbed by the vegetables and eventually end up inside you. Commercial growers use pesticides and herbicides. When you grow your own you can keep your garden small enough so that you don’t have to use those. Also when you buy vegetables from a grocery store they are usually picked green and then gassed to make them ripen. Then they are shipped long distances to reach the grocery store which uses up fuel and pollutes the environment. Tomorrow we are participating in Earth Day at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital. We will be giving some demonstrations on how to grow your own veggies and how to grow othe...

I know this is long but I assure you, you will learn a lot if you stay with me. People are usually divided into two groups, Cat people or Dog people. We are Cat people. We have had a few dogs through the years but have always come back to cats. Even when we did own dogs we had cats and the dogs knew who was boss. There are big differences between these two animals so it stands to reason that most people like one or the other. Dog people like to say that dogs are faithful because they usually are attracted to one person the most. It is said that they are “man’s” best friend but most of the time they are “one man’s” best friend. They will be friendly and faithful to one or maybe two people but everyone else beware. A dog may be faithful to his or her master but will often turn on other people without warning. To me this isn’t being “friendly”, its taking sides . I think Cats are neat and in my opinion, man’s best friend. There I said it, “Cats are man’s best friend”. Cats are straight fo...