Inspire Your Children to Live Green

       Take your family out to enjoy the green and you all will be inspired to Go Green. Going Green at home starts with educating and involving our children. If we nurture our children's interest in nature, which they are usually already fascinated by all things outdoors, they will be more than willing to do their share of preserving / improving the environment. Children are very enthusiastic, caring, and full of terrific ideas. The whole family enjoys all there is to see in the F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm nature center and the hiking trails are just beautiful.

The Three Rs of Living Green

Reduce, reuse, recycle.  Here are two versions of what I did with some glass bottles I had finished the contents of.  I turned them into window vases by hanging them from clear fishing line and suction cup hooks.  On the top one, I have strung some beads I already had, and added some pretty copper wire that I had as well from another project.  The one on the bottom, well I don’t know if you all have accumulated beautiful handmade doilies like we have, but they have been made with love and patience and each one is unique, so why not put them to use?  Get them out from your drawers and show them off.  I have simply gathered a doily around a glass vessel, secured the top with fishing line and hung it from a suction cup hook.  Just fill with water and fresh flowers when you have some or silk flowers, and it looks just lovely hanging in your window.

The Goodyear Air-Dock

    Okay, this is a continuation of the previous blog, from the Akron Air Show.  Ever since I was a little girl, I remember my dad would take us to visit his brother in Akron.  We always would drive past this huge, black, oval dome.  I was fascinated by it and would look forward to seeing it every time.  I still do, it doesn't take much to excite me I guess.  

    This dome, or air-dock, is where the original Goodyear dirigibles were housed.  I've heard that this air-dock blimp hangar is so large that it has its own weather climate inside.  It can have clouds and even rain precipitation.    

Akron Fulton Airport

     This is such a beautiful old air terminal.  I don't know the year it was built, but there is a strong art deco influence.  I haven't been inside for a long time (John and I played pool here once when we were dating).  We were here this past summer for Fathers' Day, for the Wings Over Akron air show.  John and Nick helped work a hotdog stand for the boy scout troop.  The air show was really nice; a lot of WWII planes flew as spectators proudly watched.  The roar of these historic planes' engines is unmistakable.

      The Corsair is definitely a crowd favorite.  Goodyear Tire and Rubber secured a contract to manufacture the first Corsair fighter plane in the early 1940s.  These planes were built at the Goodyear Aerospace factory near the Akron Fulton Airport.  Another reason to visit Akron, Ohio is the annual Soapbox Derby, held every summer right next to this airport. 

When Great Big Sea Rocked Akron

The Newfoundland band, Great Big Sea, made waves in downtown Akron at Lock 3.  It was a beautiful moonlit, August night.  John and I started out like most other people there, relaxing on a blanket stretched out on the grass.  It wasn't long after Great Big Sea played their first energetic song, everyone got on their feet and we danced and smiled throughout the rest of the concert.

I first stumbled upon Great Big Sea in the mid 90s when I heard their upbeat song "Ordinary Day".  They are a Celtic influenced, folk / rock wonder.  What a blast they were at this historic outdoor venue!