We like to recycle things around our house-aluminum cans, newspapers, snow shovels .. .

"Snow shovels," you ask?

Funny you should pick up on that. Of course I recycle snow shovels. After all, we certainly don't want our local landfills to be over flowing with them, do we? And with all the refugees fleeing the snowy North Country for sunny Sierra Vista, it's getting to be quite a problem.

Actually, I found a perfectly serviceable snow shovel for a quarter in a local consignment store and I couldn't resist the bargain. Not that I am anticipating a bad winter, you understand, but it never hurts to be prepared. In the meantime, I look at it more like a very large dust pan with a long handle than a tool for clearing ice and snow from the driveway. It works great for getting those piles of weeds and leaves from the ground into a garbage can where they can be hauled off to the compost pile. Happy shoveling.