tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49656857255554647602024-03-20T21:02:19.525-07:00Trees & TurtlesA Blog that explores Design, Health, Sustainability & Community on an everyday attainable level.Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-20280235360912072162012-05-13T13:51:00.000-07:002012-05-13T13:51:00.273-07:00Omnivore!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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My Review of Michael Pollan's book <em>The Omnivore's Dilemma</em><br />
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I enjoyed every part of this eye opening book. <br />
The book is so well written and inspired me with so many of it's sections of beautiful imagery. <br />
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I am envious of any successful writer because I truly wish it was a talent I possessed. One of the reasons, I write this blog is to grow better at writing. I struggled through my English classes at UGA even though I enjoy reading. I push my self to read great books in order to understand and be inspired. <br />
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Mr. Pollan breaks down our food systems and brings to light how we Americans select the very thing that sustains our life, food. <br />
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<em>Omnivore's Dilemma</em> was never a struggle for me to read, but I did find myself needing time to process all the information. I felt as though, in the beginning, I was outraged by how this system works and why we aren't doing more to change it and that I should start right now and change everything! This, of course, is rash and really solves nothing. I grew to understand like my change in attitude towards becoming a better environmental steward to the earth, my change in attitude towards the way I chose food would need to be similar, one step at a time. <br />
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The section of the book that I enjoyed the most is when Mr. Pollan visits the sustainable farm on the east coast. I enjoyed learning that there are still farms that are organized this way, sustainably, instead of based on monoculture system. In this section what really stuck with me is a description of how the cows are heated for the winter (standing on a warm compost of sorts) and then how the farm owner has the pigs dig for gold (alcohized corn nuggets) to turn the warm compost. It solves so many problems and both species are doing what they naturally enjoy doing. <br />
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Mr. Pollan's vivid descripition of all the landscapes he encounters are to me what was the best part of the book. There are several that are still in my mind and yearn to be painted. <br />
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All in all, I feel more enlightened, inspired and ready to continue to learn what I can do to make a difference in my food consumption and that this really goes hand in hand with the activities I have incorporated already in my quest to live more green!<br />
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<br />Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-39077239930552361792012-05-10T13:22:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:22:00.104-07:00Mid Week Treat No.1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A Chicken Crossed our path!</div>
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<em>This little chicken lives in our neigborhood and we've passed this house now on several occasions and have seen two chickens out roaming around the yard. I love it! (They have a guard dog and cat keeping an eye on things). </em><br />
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Before this area was just a section of dirt with an old wooden wishing well on it. Our front door is to the right in this picture and the wall only goes about half way up. <br />
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Now it is a beautiful little nook to place camping chairs and hang out in the beautiful weather we can expect for Spring/ Summer!<br />
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Jesse worked very hard to level the little area by hand. We bought 1'x1' bricks for the main area and had a little room left in the back where we placed smaller bricks as edging. It's not the most professional job for sure but it works great and looks tons better then the original area. No before pictures, I always forget to take them.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yE14ggimufM7MIRcrD29h9RCk7mCTKRir2t2ygIBvUpL_XigokjxV-wMO_2mtwvtpJhfUvlQViES4WEp2WwxJZK_Qn3ol-g6qX8TElWyQxU44Zman4iT6ZxpY5cou26PA89uDgZffYiJ/s1600/patio+under+window+pre.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4yE14ggimufM7MIRcrD29h9RCk7mCTKRir2t2ygIBvUpL_XigokjxV-wMO_2mtwvtpJhfUvlQViES4WEp2WwxJZK_Qn3ol-g6qX8TElWyQxU44Zman4iT6ZxpY5cou26PA89uDgZffYiJ/s320/patio+under+window+pre.JPG" width="320" /></a><strong>PART 2:</strong> In front of our little house/ apartment there is a fairly small bit of dirt. We found out last year that the tenants before us had planted bulbs in this area. Come this spring the bulbs sprang up all over this little area making it look really ragged. We knew we wanted to do something with this area and so we contemplated over the winter. <br />
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<br /></div>Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-67855015533414787532012-04-29T14:06:00.001-07:002012-04-29T14:06:17.719-07:00Playing Catch Up!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Spring tends to bloom with tons of new blog post content. I meant to publish this one before the previous (Tulips and Grass-fed beef), but was so overjoyed by the day that I went ahead posted. Now to play a bit of catch up.</div>
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Tacoma has instituted a new program where we get to put food waste into our yard waste bins. We already have a worm compost, but there are certain things that they will not eat. Items include dairy, meat, breads, fruits/ veggies and even leftovers! Though we have not received our cute little bin, I placed the first food in our large brown can. </div>
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Over the weekend my family and I went on quite the adventure! It started out planned for the Tulip Festival in Mt. Vernon, WA and it turned into so much more fun!<br />
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Tulips have been my favorite flower for some time now. It's hard to pick a favorite flower just like it's hard to pick a favorite color there are phases for me but tulips have stayed at the top of the list.<br />
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<strong>The Plan</strong>: Go to the Tulip Festival and see as much of it as possible. <br />
<strong>The Reality:</strong> We started out on our journey around 9am and headed to Mt. Vernon. We knew we were in the right place when we saw the line of cars waiting on the shoulder of I-5 to take the correct exit. Yikes! We proceeded to wait <em>at least</em> 45 mins and had barely moved closer to the exit sign. Fred, my stepdad (who hates crowds/ busy places AND knew the area) suggested we come up with another plan since it did not look like we were going to make it to the city center ie: the Festival. <br />
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<strong>The Adventure:</strong> We all pondered Fred's thought and decided to get out of wasting our day in line to see what else we could see of the area. It was a extremely bright idea. We ended up going a few more exits up the highway and going down a smaller highway that lead us to a Tulip Field!!<br />
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It was probably ONE of the smaller fields of the entire area, but it was perfect! It was not very crowded, had a ton of the colors represented and had places to park. <br />
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After walking, gazing and buying sometulips we headed to LaConner, WA for some Lunch!<br />
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In LaConner, we settled on a resturant entitled <a href="http://www.nellthorn.com/">Nell Thorn</a>. Boy were we over joyed by our choice. On our way to the table, we noticed a sign that stated that their food was local. It only makes since in a place like Skagit Valley surrounded by farm land and resources why wouldn't you use it in your resturants! <br />
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The dishes were chosen, crab cakes and half pound burger with fries for Jesse (my boyfriend) and I to enjoy, a half pound burger with salad for Fred and a wine marinated portabello mushroom with salad for Mom (Jen). The crab cake was all crab and I wish had taken a picture of the plate presentation, it was beautiful. The burger was so tender and delishous on a potato bread bun, served with herb and lemon and who knows what else seasoned fries. We asked our waitress if the burger was local and if it was grass fed beef. We felt a little like the couple from Portlandia asking, but we really wanted to know. And we were rewarded with her answer of yes to both. Success! I have finally had grass beef with the knowledge that I was eating it and in it is fantastic. <br />
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The rest of the afternoon was spent walking around the LaConner and enjoying the beautiful weather we were so lucky to have had that day.<br />
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Our Adventure in Skagit Valley was so simple yet an experince that I will never forget!<br />Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-78722231727670284162012-04-16T11:33:00.001-07:002012-04-16T14:21:16.518-07:00Spring is Here!I have been a tad neglectful with my blog as of the start of the new year. 2012 has proven to be a very eventful and family oriented year. It had Jesse and I making several trips to Oregon to see his family and friends in addition to the normal routines. <br />
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My blog was never forgotten in my mind and I have a slew of posts and post ideas ready to be posted. <br />
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To get this blog back full of life I start with what is happening now in the middle April. We, in the PNW, have already enjoyed a handful of gorgeous days and the flowers have started to bloom! <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In our current apartment, we have a small area of dirt under our living room window that we discovered dozens of bulbs in August when we started digging around in it. Before the end of fall we made sure to replant a handful of them and it was a mystery game. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">What is going to pop up come spring? To our delight we started getting beautiful yellow daffodils!</span> </div>
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Here's to adventures and seeing new lands! </div>Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-21067028647368714412011-12-12T15:06:00.000-08:002011-12-23T10:36:28.197-08:00New Year and New Green GoalsAs I look back over this year and think about all I have accomplished I am quite pleased. Life sure is an adventure and takes you places you never would have thought. <br />
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2012 starts my third year living here in Washington state. I am hope full that it will be another wonderfully productive year. So far I know that I get to see family (my sister, her husband and my twin niece and nephew) in Feb/ March, that Jesse and I will celebrate two years of dating and the traditional fun of birthdays and holidays. <br />
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As for new ambitions my life has really taken a shift in importance. A few years ago I was focused on job/ career and thought less about how I could make a difference in this country/ world. Now today my thoughts go more and more to what I can do! I started in 2011 making some real lifestyle changes that make a difference in an area that I have complete control of my home (see my post <em>Look what you can accomplish in a year! </em>for what all I did in 2011). I also started shifting my focus when it comes to a job I am not quite there with what I want so that will continue into 2012!<br />
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For 2012, I will continue to do just about everything in the above blog and slowly add more and more. <br />
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<li>try homemade deodorant</li>
<li> try homemade shampoo</li>
<li>try homemade toothpaste</li>
<li>learn how to make soap and homemade bread. (Homemade bread and soap are items that may have to wait as they need some significant tool purchasing to pursue.)</li>
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Also, want to shop more locally (it is so important for a variety of reasons) and volunteer. <br />
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My view of the world has always been about being more local and community based, but as I get older I really value this in myself more and more. I begin to see all that I am doing that is not in line with my own belief system. <br />
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Our project uses about half of a 10' x 25' roll of 3mil. plastic, 8- 10', 1/2" dia. PVC pipes, 10 circle screws, twine and plastic holders. <br />
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Currently, we have planted our strawberry plant, carrots, onions and (donated to us) catnip.<br />
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Must take way more pictures next year, I do not even have pictures of our tall beautiful sunflowers that were there. Will do better in 2012!Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-83238477562064870542011-12-02T10:00:00.000-08:002011-12-02T10:29:57.696-08:00Look what you can accomplish in just a year!My boyfriend, Jesse and I started this year (2011) wanting to really work on our "green" habits. We actually accomplished a great deal this year and I wanted to share the list. It all started with our new friends the worms.<br />
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1. <strong>Worm Compost</strong>- Still functioning well and the worms have had babies too.<br />
2. <strong>Purchased a cedar plant box</strong> for our patio.<br />
3. <strong>Joined a Community Garden</strong><br />
4. <strong>Made natural cleaners for the home</strong>- We are still working on using up the chemical ones, but have not bought new and have mostly used the green ones because they work better.<br />
5. <strong>Made laundry detergent</strong><br />
6. <strong>Bought sturdy plastic cups, plates and cutlery for a family reunion</strong> (we collected in a bin and washed/ stored them for next time).<br />
7. <strong>Started supply of glass containers for leftovers</strong> to replace the plastic ones we currently use.<br />
8. <strong>Changed all my bills to online and e-pay</strong> so that I no longer receive any paper bills. <br />
9. <strong>Learned how to make paper</strong><br />
10. <strong>Made a raised bed for my parents</strong><br />
11. <strong>At work, I changed our schedule posting from being single sided to double. </strong>This will save a lot of paper per year (and we recycle them when we are done).<br />
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Items we have started and will continue working on:<br />
1. Shopping locally<br />
2. looking at items and their packaging before we buy<br />
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Items we were already doing:<br />
1. Recycling<br />
2. Using metal cans for water instead of plastic bottles<br />
3. Visiting the farmer's market<br />
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We also harvested from our community garden plot and at home: zucchinis, swiss chard, carrots, spinach, lettuce mixes, rosemary, oregano, pumkins, sunflowers and bachelor buttons. <br />
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What a Year And I plan on doing a lot more next year!<br />
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Today, I am going to speak on an author that have discovered over the past year,<br />
Danny Gregory. <i>Everyday Matters, </i>is the first of his books that I read.<br />
I stumbled across it while keeping myself occupied, in the<br />
University of Washington's library, while Jesse (my boyfriend) was doing research.<br />
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The next day at work I read it cover to cover. The book really inspired me.<br />
<i>Everyday Matters</i> is about discovering, or in my case rediscovering, your creativity<br />
and learning to work on your skills everyday with all the things that are around you.<br />
I have always struggled as an artist to work from real life, frankly, it intimates me.<br />
From this book, I started to sketch on a day to day basis but like most<br />
new adventures the excitement faded and so did the sketching.<br />
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Recently, I have found another book of his and I bought it. This book is titled<br />
<i>The Creative License </i>and really is more of a teaching manual on how to get<br />
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Mr. Gregory's books really spoke to how I currently feel as an artist.<br />
Drawing is really a skill and the only way to be good is to practice that skill.<br />
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Below are my first sketches, my "baby pictures" and<br />
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Jesse and I spent one of our last summer afternoon at our local park, Wright Park. We grabbed sandwiches and drinks from our local market and headed over to the park. </div>
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The ducks were getting their lunch too. I am glad I had my phone to catch them out of the water. We are so lucky to have such a nice and well maintained park so close to us.<br />
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Last week, I ran once in the afternoon and was left discouraged because the heat lowered my speed and distance. I tried at night and learned two very valuable lessons: focus and do not push yourself so hard that you get injured. Last Saturday night, I went for a run and was feeling great coming up on 25 minutes I pushed myself to complete the last five and ended up tripping on a raised part of the sidewalk and falling flat on my face. I got three really bad wounds, went to the doctor and have now been unable to run for the last four days and counting. I am very sad girl, lesson learned. </div>
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Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-27316512583916145842011-08-24T10:50:00.000-07:002011-08-24T10:50:09.637-07:00Mood Board No. 4<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My Review- As you can see, on this one I changed it up a bit. My boyfriend and I did some cleaning out a bit ago and came up with a entire box full of old electronics cords. Yikes! I took them and re-purposed</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> them. The only change to the directions are to tie the cords end to end and wrap around ball (like a ball of yarn) and then apply tacky glue all over the cords. I applied 2 coats of tacky glue (ended up using an entire medium bottle of glue) to be on the safe side. It came out really nice. It's more flexible but still holds it's shape. Want me to make you one? </span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Simple Post today, top photo is some of our harvest from our box at the community garden and bottom photo is of a lovely little pumpkin starting to grow. Both of our pumpkin plants have jumped out of the box. Opps! </div><div style="text-align: center;">&</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">I have started my fifth week of my running program detailed in <a href="http://nataliegoza.blogspot.com/2011/07/can-i-become-runner.html">a previous post</a>. I can now run for 12 mins. together and 28 of the 30 mins. total. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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We had a slow start at our community garden , but it is finally starting to come around.<br />
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Our Zucchini is ginormous and has four zucs growing on it currently. We pulled several small ones and then one the size of a football!<br />
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The sunflowers are growing so tall and working on their flowers. Yippee!<br />
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Lastly, the carrots have shoulders and we have pulled a carrot or two see their progress. WE ate our first home grown carrot and it was Delicious!<br />
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1. Do not sow the seeds too deep. Dig a very small indent in dirt, place seed and lightly cover over with dirt.<br />
2. Start the seeds indoors if you can. In little peat pots and cover them so they stay warm and moist.<br />
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Next garden post will be of some yummies. We have pulled our first official harvest of swiss chard, carrots and zucchinis.Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-52670695391881042422011-07-13T14:06:00.000-07:002011-07-13T14:06:01.953-07:00Green Day Trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpRnWiSKUOdn_hB0gcnk_C8tnPaCIPNIGKlsVZP1KEvOXtaWg9gj3Y1wSwptI3MNgVfocXLs-1JHWneJtQgVmLRtrZCFF5br2tVMfLah9Kj4RS6MglB7n8JQmH7C1HL2Hw_Mu2gpXDI62/s1600/Vashon+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpRnWiSKUOdn_hB0gcnk_C8tnPaCIPNIGKlsVZP1KEvOXtaWg9gj3Y1wSwptI3MNgVfocXLs-1JHWneJtQgVmLRtrZCFF5br2tVMfLah9Kj4RS6MglB7n8JQmH7C1HL2Hw_Mu2gpXDI62/s400/Vashon+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Honestly, before Jesse (my boyfriend) suggested we go to Vashon Island for a day of our </div><div style="text-align: left;">Fourth of July weekend I had never really heard of it. <a href="http://vashonmap.com/">Vashon</a> is an island that is located </div><div style="text-align: left;">just north of the Tacoma waterfront. Jesse planned our day from start to finish and </div><div style="text-align: left;">we did not need our car!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We live in the Stadium District of Tacoma, which is very close to numerous bus stops. </div><div style="text-align: left;">We jumped on the no. 11 (at $2 each) and traveled to Point Defiance Park where the </div><div style="text-align: left;">Ferry was arriving just in time for us. We purchased our "walk on" ticket for just under </div><div style="text-align: left;">$10 and traveled across the sound.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">On the other side, we jumped on the bus (at $2.25 each). The bus took us up the island </div><div style="text-align: left;">to the middle of Vashon where we jumped off to explore the many shops, the</div><div style="text-align: left;">farmers' market and restaurants. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Deciding it was time to eat our lunch (stowed away in our backpack), we caught a bus </div><div style="text-align: left;">to head back down the island to the many parks that it has to offer (no fare needed this </div><div style="text-align: left;">trip because our transfer ticket was still valid and we had 15 minutes left, eek!)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We had lunch on the waterfront and then headed to the main road to catch the bus back </div><div style="text-align: left;">to the ferry (at $2.25 each). Once again, arrived at the ferry just in time and waited to </div><div style="text-align: left;">walk on to make our journey back over the water (the $10 fare on the other side is for a </div><div style="text-align: left;">round trip!) The last step of our journey was to board the no.11 bus that took us home (at $2 each).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Our well-planned trip ended up costing us $27 total and we did not have to worry about </div><div style="text-align: left;">waiting for the ferry or parking our car (the ferry alone would have cost us $25, ouch!)</div><div style="text-align: left;">It may seem like it was pretty close budget wise, but the impact we saved </div><div style="text-align: left;">on the planet cannot be compared. See if you can use your local transport for more of your trips!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Our day was a wonderful, fun filled, sunny trip to a place I was not even aware existed! </div><div style="text-align: left;">Vashon Island is a beautiful place with extremely nice people wherever you turn who give the </div><div style="text-align: left;">laid back attitude.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4965685725555464760.post-44788099217259032092011-07-06T22:47:00.000-07:002011-07-06T22:47:20.511-07:00Can I become a Runner?<div style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> On most days, I feel like these lovely woman from Picasso's painting "Two Women Running on the Beach" and think I could never be a runner. I feel overweight, and tired. These ladies do look happy though, don't they?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Over the next eight weeks, I am going to do a program I found in <em>Runner's World Magazine</em> online. It is a <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-520--9397-1-1X5-2,00.html">program</a> that turns a walker into a runner. It alternates walking and running over the span of 30 minutes for four days per week, walking for two days, and rest for one.</span><br />
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I have always wanted to run but let myself believe that I just was not built for it. Lately I have noticed (via Facebook) that a lot of my friends run. I know it will be a lot of hard work and determination, but I think I am finally ready to join them! Fellow runners, please share your pearls of wisdom with this noob! I need all the help that I can get and it is very much appreciated.<br />
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Hopefully, in the next eight weeks, I can post that I can continuously run two miles. That is my first goal. Wish me luck! <br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"> Went on my first run tonight. It was tough, but I stuck to the program and did great!</div>Natalie Gozahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02644761807716665499noreply@blogger.com4