I stopped taking gugulipid, by the way.  After a few days, I just didn't feel right, so I stopped taking it. 

Yesterday, I was able to start moving my large rock collection away from the area I'm going to put the greenhouse at.  Got about half of them moved to the side, will move the other half today.  I also freed up the styrofoam sheets that had been stuck in the glacier that fell off the garage roof.  I carried these up to the house and put them in the porch, where I can measure and cut them to size. 

I went to the landfill to recycle and found that where I had been separating brown glass, green glass, clear glass, plastics, aluminum cans and tin cans; now they have just one huge bin for all those categories.  I was astounded, but someone nearby told me that that is the new way now, they have machines, etc. that separate all this for you, and this will encourage people to recycle, if they don't have to separate things anymore.  Yes, the lazy ones are rewarded, but I guess that's progress for you. 

In the newspaper, I read about a woman who has started a business, with the help of a small grant, and is using demolition building lumber, doors, cabinets, appliances and all manner of things from houses.  She is pulling these things out of the "garbage" and has a whole warehouse already.  Today, Earth Day, is the first day of selling all these things at about 1/3 of their original cost.  I would like to go back to the landfill today and buy some lumber, but I only have a couple of bucks to last this month out, and I think I can scrounge enough scrap lumber right from my own pile to make the greenhouse.  They will have a sale every 2nd and 4th Friday and Saturday from now on.  This lady hopes to be a profitable business soon.  What a great idea!  I've heard that there are a lot of places like this in our country now. 

I've seen the movie documentary "King Corn" and what a shocker it was to realize how the government has farmers growing this corn to become ethanol, silage for cattle fed in feed lots, and mostly, for high fructose corn syrup.  This is what is causing people to become obese in this country, and is giving people diabetes.  I started to look at labels immediately to stop using products that contain high fructose corn syrup, but I have hamburger on hand that, according to the film I saw, is nothing more than sweetened fat.  It is expensive to shop for food, and the food you get is often contaminated with pesticides, inorganic fertilizers, and products that are not good for you.  It is scary now to think that my own health problems have all been caused by unhealthy business practices that our government supports.