Ok, The January Green Challenge, Creative recycling?
My wife and I don’t have kids, so the arts and crafts part of my life is weaker than it could be, but I will go out on a limb with this one.

In one of my past lives I was a sign maker, heck I still dabble in it a bit. I still have most of my equipment and I found a way to use it to recycle. Now I don’t much hide from my politics, but I do try to keep my non-real estate ranting to a minimum here on the blog. If you don’t know yet I lean left. In Amador County people that agree with me are not so much rare as timid. I bump into them all the time, and they so often say things like “I didn’t think any of us live around here.” So when I saw a bunch of old women some of who I recognized standing on the busiest corner in the county, some of them holding candles one evening, I had to stop and see what they were up to.

Now I had a good idea what was up, but it could have been something else altogether. But when I asked they told me that yes it was a monthly peace vigil, and that they were not organized except that they meet each 3 rd. Friday night at that corner. Just to get the word out that they want this war over and our people back home! They had no signs, NONE!?! How could anybody driving by get the message they were promoting? I had to do something. And I found just the right thing. I recycled. That’s right. I remembered seeing a couple of those ugly coroplast “H stake” signs stuck along the state highway, de-beautifying our area, so I grabbed up some of that litter and made a few signs for the “Grannies For Peace” as they call themselves. The next month they had more feedback in the first few minutes than they had at any vigil so far.

Yes I know you were hoping for directions on how to melt a wine bottle into a cheese tray, but so was I!

Thank You Jake Hodges for his picture, check out Jake at www.codeworm.com .