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At the beginning of this week I drove to the park and ride in the morning. (what i was late!)  Anyway.  Usually there are a few spots along the back side of the main lot, but that day there was a huge trailer taking up like 10 spots.  Adjacent to this side of the lot is a hill that is normally filled with weeds and tall grass.  But that morning it was filled with GOATS!

It was one of those things, where I was driving around the lot towards where there are usually spots and out of the corner of my eye something not normally in the environment registered in my brain and confused it.  Goats… in Tukwila… huh… well The Boy does say that we have nothing but the best in Tukwila.

I like especially that they chose to go this method for grass and weed removal as opposed to something like massive amounts of weed killers.  It makes me happy that my little neighborhood is forward thinking in ways I never new about.

I was listening the the radio the other day (I think it was NPR one morning) and it was a report in their series on global warming. For this particular report they were talking about Food Miles and how the mileage that food travels impacts global warming and the amount of green house gases that we as individuals are responsible for.

Food Miles are defined as the amount of miles that food must travel from where it is grown to our dinner plates. I had heard about this at least a few times in the last few years. It didn’t hit me until an article I saw on Digg.com (originally on Treehugger.com) about how many resources are used in the making of Fiji water, that the processing and transportation of food takes up a LOT of resources.

The answer to this then is to try to eat foods that are grown locally. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem during the summer. And if not locally then at least in the states (I guess, I am still figuring this stuff out).

I guess that is what gardens are good for. Too bad its not hot enough to grow mangos and avocados.