...But first, coffee (with Jen)

Towards the end of June I started seeing "Plastic Free July" posts. With the talk recently about the straws creating environmental problems, in addition to the other plastic waste problems, I guess that this is the new approach to the old problem.  I love animals - so, their environment is important to me. Here is where you can read more about this challenge:  http://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ . We recycle most of what we can in our home.  But, the TWO reusable bag collections that I have (conveniently stuffed into other reusable bags for storage - because that is how I was taught to store bags by the generations before me) in separate ends of my house bug me.  They collect dust and fur, and I don't want to use them because of this. For real, one of those bag collections has been sitting in my laundry room for 5 years - unmoved and unused.  I'm pretty sure that I've collected a whole dogs worth of fur on and in this stack. I'm a woman of lists.  And...