
I knew they existed but didn’t know one was in my neighborhood, just a few houses down. While my husband and I are busy feeding the birds in our yard, our neighbor Tom ensures the birds find more than dried fruits and bird seeds.

I knew they existed but didn’t know one was in my neighborhood, just a few houses down. While my husband and I are busy feeding the birds in our yard, our neighbor Tom ensures the birds find more than dried fruits and bird seeds.

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Have you always had a brown thumb and any plant, no matter how robust, dries up for you? Wonderful, then you have winning potential! Have you consistently forgotten or even deliberately withheld from sprinkling your lawn last summer, and it looked like the dessert outside your living room window? Even better, after all, it increases your chances of becoming a world champion.

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Pour cold apple juice on your carpet, turn off the light, and walk around barefoot in the dark.
Immediately after waking up go outside and stand in the rain and repeat. “Go potty! Go pee-pee! Good dog.” (Five-minute minimum)
Cover your best clothes with dog hair. Use light hair for dark clothing and dark hair for light clothing.

The next time you see a homeless person on the streets, think of me. As many know, we were houseless for a few months just thirteen years ago. And no I have to ask a favor, please.

My quest to help save this planet was doomed to fail right from the start. “Put the lunch meat and the cheese in my containers, no plastic bags, please,” and with a determined, but not confident smile I handed her my food containers, yet she didn’t take them.