Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 04/23/18> How do you choose? Earth Day or …

We seem to have this thing here in the USA, and I think several other countries do as well, where we need to stick a label on just about every day of the year as being some “special” day. So yesterday was “Earth Day” according to Google, but do we really need these days?

I’m pretty sure we all know that we are living on this mass that we call earth. I am also pretty sure that we know it is in our best interest to take of our environment as best we can. But thanks to the people who come up with all these special days it is making it increasingly harder to buy in on these special days.

So, yesterday I faced a big dilemma because April 22, 2018 was more than just Earth Day. I’m getting up in my years and I really just can’t go full steam anymore like I did when I was in my twenties. Hell, back when I was younger I could tackle numerous projects or causes in one day, but not so much anymore.

In honor of Earth Day there was a big event down on the Gulf Coast here in Texas, people got together with their big plastic black bags and their disposable latex rubber gloves and walked the beaches of Texas picking up litter and trash. I can’t remember exactly how many tons of trash has been picked up on previous Earth Days but I think the total I heard on the advertisement on the radio Friday was over 900 tons. That is a lot trash that really needed to go for sure, I enjoy the beach and clean is better than dirty in my book. I didn’t make it down to the coast on Earth Day, sorry.

There was also some similar projects taking place at the city and county parks in my area but those didn’t get the old man there either. It’s not that I don’t think the trash doesn’t need to be picked up, it does, and I pick up trash when I see it even if it isn’t mine.

Here in Texas the state government ran some public service commercials years ago with the theme being, “Don’t Mess With Texas”. Several celebrities filmed commercials and it was well received by the public and it had a noticeable effect with the amount of trash along Texas highways being reduced. I haven’t seen any of those commercials in years and now that I think about it, and it seems like there is more trash along the roads now. The state has come up with another program called “Adopt a Highway”, where groups commit to picking up trash along a one mile stretch of a road once a month, from my observation it isn’t working as well as the “Don’t Mess With Texas” campaign.

Back to my dilemma on choosing how to support the “special days”, as I mentioned April 22, 2018 wasn’t just Earth Day it was also “Jelly Bean Day”. My guess is that most of you were not aware of this; Earth Day just seems to get all of the attention. If you went out and did something in honor of Earth Day and pitched in to help kudos to you.

I have always rooted for the underdog, the little guy, the one less noticed so to speak; so I had my wife pick up a little bag of jelly beans for me from the local grocery store in support of Jelly Bean Day and I spent my afternoon consuming those tasty little beans of caramelized sugar. The red ones are my favorite, I don’t know why that is, but they are anyway.

Today is national Picnic Day, I’m going to have to pass on supporting it this year as I have to work and having a picnic without the family just isn’t right. I will give you a heads up on another day; in fact it is tomorrow April, 24th, National Pigs In A Blanket Day. I will be taking part in that day and so some of my customers who I will be calling on a Tuesday morning are also in for a treat.

Until next time,
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