Quick updates:

At the beginning of next week, I should be posting a contest to win a $50 Earth Fare gift card! Yay! Who doesn’t adore Earth Fare’s delectable, healthy, conscientious grocer selection and body care?! I know I have been thrilled to familiarize myself with Earth Fare! So keep an eye out for that NEXT WEEK!

Until then, for today (Friday, 26 June 2009), you can print out this coupon to visit your local Earth Fare and receive a FREE PRE-MADE DELI SANDWICH! I personally am excited for the coupon, so feel free to bump into me at Earth Fare!

Also, I attended the third annual Mountain Green Conference at Warren Wilson College ~ and I have a true plethora of information to share. From sealing your thermal envelope of your house, reducing air leaks and drafts, greener automechanics, building science, owls, local foods, beekeeping, the groundbreaking historic measures of WWC, NASCAR, and some generally nifty (albeit common sense) knowledge, posts are coming!

Bonus: posts of my Pisgah National Forest retreat will be coming too!

Lastly, HUGELY, I will spend part of this weekend and next week doing a MASSIVE overhaul of this website layout.  I have a lot of issues with the functionality and aesthetics of this theme, so I will be designing a CSS to make it better suited for (g)g and my purposes.  So get excited about that ~ I am!  This is LONG overdue change!

Hoorah!

Cheers to you all ~
See you at Earth Fare today!

Sustainably yours,
Ashley Sue

Lowes Motor Speedway partnered with the local Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corporation (yes, Anheuser-Busch has a recycling corp) to put out well over 200 recycling containers in the speedway for last night’s big Kasey Kahne victory (and for good).

While I’m in Hickory with my Papa and Marc, I got stuck watching the 600 mile race last night (I successful ignored most of the race by chatting it up with my visiting Grandma).  The last 20 laps were outstanding however… who would think a 600 mile race can create drama, but with an ending filled with the lead cars one-by-one having to pit for gas (what a heartbreaking way to end the game… uh… race) and Tony Stewart blowing a tire with only three laps left, Kasey Kahne took it away after a twist after twist last 20 laps.

We called our friends in Chesapeake who love Kasey Kahne to congratulate them, and then I got to see a piece on the local news that the speedway has “gone green”.

Now you know how I hate that cheap phrase, but I have to say I am happy to see advances made in all different industries.  It’s a start, and I have to be happy that LMS and A-BRC didn’t resort to the ever-catchy green color for their recycling hubs (that screams gimmick to me).

So crack open a cold one and celebrate the Earth along with Kasey Kahne’s victory.  Cheers!

Sustainably yours, Ashley Sue