Today we get a small piece of carpet laid in the bedroom.  The paint had to dry a few days before they could come and lay it.  Once we are able to put the bedroom back together, I can start painting in the rest of the house.  This deal is going to take a LOOOONNNNNGGGG time.  Right now the house is in such a state of disarray it’s hard to find anything.  But my sanity is being held together with this blog site.  I hope it is keeping your sanity together as well.  I will often tell stressed out people to visit this site and get away from reality for awhile.

So, did you know that the country store in Farr West called “Smith and Edwards” sells toilet paper?  Me either until the other day.  Sherry and I were down there and she said, Oh by the way, we need toilet paper.  I said, Ok then our next stop is Smiths.  She said, no I’ll go get some, they sell it here.  And off she went.

On her return I noticed the packaging of the toilet paper looked rather odd.  Not a real flashy package at all, more dull and rather plain.  I thought no more about it.

Yesterday morning, I was “doing my thing” and reached for the toilet paper…it was some of theirs.  A very dull grey paper roll hung on the bracket.  And where I usually see a nice clean squared off end, hung a jagged torn end with a second ply of paper hanging at least 3 inches below torn in the opposite direction.  HMMMM, I thought and proceeded to pull some paper off the roll.

I don’t usually think too much about this sort of event, but I was intrigued this time.  The paper rolled off just fine, but when I went to tear it on a perforation, the paper ignored the fact that it was perforated and tore  where ever it wanted.  In addition to that, the top layer of the two plys tore opposite the lower ply…take it from me, it does that every time!

Well, to change the subject “some”, Sherry and I were in Smiths the other day and cruising down the home products aisle when I noticed a very neat and orderly “new” display of “green” items.  I could not help but notice how the store management was making it very obvious that all the products in this section was “green” in some way or another…Including, of all things, “recycled toilet paper”!!!!

I pointed this out to Sherry and she looked at me and said, “That doesn’t paint a very good picture in my mind”!  I had to agree.

I told her too, that Bears Butt just might have to investigate that.

And so I have.  And if you too type in a search for “recycled toilet paper” you will find the top choice to be “Seventh Generation” recycled toilet paper.  Why have I not heard of this before?  Seven generations have been recycling their toilet paper and it has gotten by me until just recently.

There is even one in “forest green” color for you outdoorsy types!  Please don’t litter and make sure your paper is camouflaged with the surrounding area.  As for me, I would rather like to know someone “went there” so I didn’t step in it.  The next thing you know they will come out with “chameleon” toilet paper, a paper that will change color to match its surroundings.  Nuff said!

Bears Butt

Jan. 15, 2013