Recycling Water

Living in Miami in the winter is glorious. Your summer is our winter. With highs of 84 each day, sun, sun, and more sun. We get an occasional rain, but it only happens when a major cold front blasts across the States. Denver gets 14 inches of snow. Chicago gets ice. We get a rain of clouds and some rain.

In this dry season, it's important to get enough water to our gardens. The standard way would be to water the garden from the hose. However, Miami is in a drought. Crazy right? we are surrounded by water, it's true. But we get our drinkable water supply from a large underground aquifer that starts at Lake Okeechobee in the central part of Florida.  To water our lawns or wash our cars from the hose, is literally taking water from our mouths. Instead we can easily recycle gallons of water.

Simple. Keep a bucket near the shower and a pitcher next to the kitchen sink. The shower bucket can catch the extra water from the shower.  Many people let the water warm up a bit before jumping in,  catch it instead of wasting it. Most people rinse their dishes before loading dish washer.  Many people toss out the water left undrunk in a glass. Catch it in the pitcher. The plants won't mind the bits of orange juice pulp or the crumbs from the sandwich. 

Try it and tell us how it goes.

It's a Food Driven Book

I get to arrange speakers to share their local insights with interested groups that not only want to volunteer in the community but learn while they're at it. A few summers ago, a local pastor and good friend was asked to speak to a group. He declared, the Bible is a food driven book. I lost all train of thought and focused in. Yes!
It starts in a Garden. In some ways, eating starts the whole SIN thing. It ends in a big party. There are countless feasts along the way. Jesus brings the wine to a wedding feast. When their aren't enough guests the servants were told to get folks off the street. It's beautiful.
What could be less violent? Sitting together and eating. What a great expression of Christ's call to peace. "Eat and drink and Remember me." Ok.