Being a "Green Friendly" person it truly hurts me to have to put my clothes in an electric dryer, but I live in a place where the water contains a whole lot of minerals and a fossil fueled electric generation plant spews a whole lot of carbon into the air that I breathe.

Line drying for me results in stiff garments that have black soot spots on them. As a matter of fact, if the management of that utility company wasn't so cheap and more "Green Friendly" I wouldn't, together with my neighbors, have so many power interruptions that caused me to reset my clocks more than a dozen times within the last month. Beside people being "Green Friendly," those manufactures and power producers better start doing their part to reduce the amount of carbon that is spewed into the air that we all breathe.

Alas, I'm not living in a perfect World so I to make do as best as I can, even if I have to use electricity to dry my well worn apparel. After all, a part of feeling good is to look good. Believe me, soot spots make me look like a bum and what good is using electricity to wash your clothes if they become soiled before I even put then on.

Then again, electric drying does save me a whole lot of time which I can spend for writing another story for your enjoyment. It's really too bad for me that some people don't truly appreciate some of what I wrote for your reading pleasure.

Some things do bother me. That is, the truly high costs of "Green Friendly" detergents. I prefer non-phosphate types of detergents for washing my wearing apparel. Only two places that I know of sell such types of detergents and they both cost more than three times as much as a regular detergent. I suppose that is one way to be a "Green Friendly" person and I am truly concerned about the future well being of our environment. I cannot afford to buy those detergents, but I wonder how much more living will cost me at some time in the future.

For that reason, I am having a whole lot of trouble trying to make as many "Green Friendly" contributions as I can. I am trying to be a better person, even if you don't see soot spots on my clothes, while I'm hard at work in front of my keyboard and typing out another story for your reading pleasure or displeasure. Enjoy!

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