Same from me.  I once worked for an environmental charity for a while, and
what they paid wasn't enough to live on.  I understand completely why they
cannot pay a realistic wage, but I needed to eat and pay my utility bills.
Unfortunately that's why I left them.
They taught me a lot though.  Turn off your electric lights as much as you
can.  Compost everything possible.   You can get great compost from tea
bags, eggshells, vegetable waste and the like to put on your garden (and
window box even) to grow yourself a few vegetables.  Just put it in
something like a dustbin (sorry, don't know what it's called in USA)
Garbage can perhaps?
Then wait.  Beautiful compost for your plants in the end.

Compost is expensive to buy here.  It's a shame, because recently
houses/gardens are so small  and close to each other that there is no chance
to have a compost heap.

I have loads of compost, I almost cannot keep up with how it develops from
chicken poo, veg waste, etc.
I'm giving it to my family for their gardens, but soon their gardens will be
bursting with it.
It works very well.  Everything growing explodes.

Anyone want any?  <g>

Tweed

Many thanks!

Actually, I fell over laughing when it happened, and this was at a Buffalo
Philharmonic concert. I am a very prodigious belcher and was recently asked
to go on a local radio program to demonstate that even grown-ups (?) like to
let them loose. (I declined for Louie's sake, as he believes that
roof-blasting burps are best kept under one's own roof.) My ex Jeff and I
used to do "drive-bys," where we scored points based on who got belched at
from a moving vehicle, and how severe the reaction. Please let me mention
that we hooked up in high school so this explains much.

So when Louie did the deed on our first date, what was I going to do, smack
him? I thought I had it coming to me. Only I would have a man kiss and burp
at the same time. The poor fellow was horrified at himself and didn't
understand what I thought funny. I made up for it two years later, when I
tripped during the wedding procession.

Blessed be,

Baha