Good Bye Plastic Straws - sharing a petition

First Starbucks, now Marriott, and several cities including Paris, San Francisco, and Miami are all considering or committed to phasing out plastic straw use. Two 10-year-old girls think that as one of the largest fast food companies in the world, Dunkin' Donuts should be next. Sign if you agree. Dunkin' Donuts: Ban plastic straws! Petition by Sophia and Amanda Massachusetts, USA  111,433  Supporters Sign now with a click Our names are Amanda and Sophia. One day in science class, we came upon an article on plastic straws. The article stated that Americans use more than 500 million straws a day- and throw them away. That is equivalent to 125 school buses filled with plastic straws. We also learned that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Those numbers concern us. So when we joined the Earth Club at our school, the leader suggested using change.org, which is how we came upon this website. All 500 million of these plastic straws end up in a landfill or worse, the ocean. When plastic straws get into the ocean, the fish mistake it for food, eat it, and get sick or die. In fact, science shows that when you eat fish, you might as well be eating plastic! We both think that Dunkin Donuts is a very tasty and an influential company. By choosing this business, we hope to make them take this issue very seriously. These shops have a lot of people coming in every day, almost all of them getting cold beverages containing plastic straws. However, those straws add up to landfill and get into the ocean. Dunkin' Donuts is a very successful company, so if they start banning straws, won’t others follow their lead? So please sign this petition and share it with your friends to help the environment, and the world we all live in.

Here's the link again to sign

Random Photos from the Files

anyone recognize any of these places?  though flamingoes could be any where. do you see me in any of the photos?

A Birthday

 this weekend we celebrated granddaughter # 3's 1st birthday.

she had cake for the first time and enjoyed it.

no frontal photos allowed but here she is with her great grandmother.  she is great number 5 for Granny with great number 6 born earlier this month to a nephew and his wife.

I'm still one handed.  typing is slow!

here is Granny, Dan and me holding #3 with face blocked out. Granny is Dan's mom.

Coping

one handed typing is a pain so excuse the lack of capitals.

here's what I'm dealing with.

it's like a football on my arm.

one more week.

dan washed my hair for me today.  that felt good.

I have managed to make some cards too - sympathy.  we lost a dear exercise friend on Sunday.  she was 93 years young.  it came on very suddenly.  no good byes.

we met her granddaughter at the viewing last night.  she said she always had to call grandma in the morning early because otherwise she wouldn't reach her.  she was so busy.  her presence will be missed here at vantage house.