Many of you helped recently in our going green promotion and have given us so many good ideas.  We thought we would dedicate a page to fill you all in on what it is we are doing.

 When we first decided that it was time we do our part to help in keeping our part of the world as clean as we could we thought we would just do a few things.  But a few things grew into more and we were surprised how much impact we were having on our own environment.  And to think this all started by looking at the Garbage.

We started composting as a result of the garbage.  And then we set out bins on the back porch and started seperating all the glass, plastic, aluminum, cardboard that our recycling services said they would take.  Now we thought what if we put seperate bins in the rooms so our guests can recycle too.   I started using some Green Bags (you know like you see on TV)  And they work awesome this extended the life of my produce. We bought energy savings and water saving washer and dryer.  In the Laundry we went to phosphate laundry detergent because we have a septic tank and found that if we add vinegar we can reduce the amount of detergent.  I try to hang out the laundry to dry whenever the sun will shine which seems to be later in the day.  I found a dryer shaker that you just shake on the cloths for static cling and this is great cause one little bottle does 1000 loads of clothes and there is no more dryer sheets or boxes. 

Then we went to each of the guest rooms - We went to grinding our own coffee to put in jars in the rooms eliminating that packaging.  And made a decision to get rid of the bottled water.  Not only is our water great here but I just could not justify all that plastic.    We started a special that if you stay 3 days and eliminate the housekeeping we give you a 15% discount - now that is a lot in the summer season.  UPDATE: the discount was working good until we got guests who wanted the discount but took two to three jetted tubs a days at 60 gallons per tub so we had to eliminate those rooms from the discount.     This will lessen the amount of laundry and electricity and supplies needed.  We are cleaning with Vinegar, Enzymes, and all natural cleaning products along with all the recycled old wonderful napkins when they wear out.  Much better than paper towels.

We discontinued the newspaper none seemed to be reading it.   Started slimming down the magazine subscriptions to Peggys favorites.  And are recycling our fax paper and wasted paper when we can.

We are continually looking for ways to eliminate packaging, it seems like it is everywhere.

Because this house was built very energy efficient we don't have to do much to it.  But we did put in water saving shower heads.   Now this summer we will look into the yard and exterior and see what we can do there.

We thank each and every one of you have given us ideas and appreciate any new ones you might have