Welcome to the Tweed Trends Podcast. Hey, Evette, what's trending today? Hey, I'm Evette, hey girl! And you are tuned in to Tweed Trends.
It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Hey there, welcome back to Tweed Trends. Today is National Kindergarten Day. But, you know what, I'm not even gonna get into it right now.
Let's get started. Yes, today is National Kindergarten Day, and although Kindergarten is very necessary, Kindergarten is awesome, and I even have a first grader who's one step away from Kindergarten. So all things Kindergarten is great. My apologies though, if you came here today thinking that I was gonna have some best practices or some ideas and tips and cool little things that Junior Kindergarten can do, but Kindergarten is but for such a short amount of time in a child's life, but the Earth is here forever, or at least as long as we can take care of it, and manage to keep it spinning on its axis.
So for me, the fact that tomorrow is Earth Day is way, way, way bigger than the fact that today is Kindergarten Day, the National Kindergarten is Day, or Kindergarten Day, I'm all over the place. Cause I'm just stuck on Earth Day, I'm so hyped, so excited about the fact that tomorrow is Earth Day that you just cannot imagine. Like I woke up this morning thinking it was Earth Day, like I'm ready, I'm so ready. And you know, there are so many things that you can do, just you, in this whole time of social distancing, you know, it's a little difficult to go out and enjoy a park because parks usually have people.
People are usually in close proximity. Places where people are in close proximity are against the rules right now. And that's okay, you can still enjoy Earth Day, you can do great things on Earth Day and not be around a whole bunch of people. And you can do it for next to nothing as well.
Hello, you don't even have to spend a whole lot of money. So that's what I'm gonna be talking about today. So my bad, if you really, really, really want that kindergarten activity, I'm gonna give you some stuff to do for Earth Day, that you can do with your kindergartener. Hey, look at that, get one two birds with one stone.
That's what I'm talking about. Before I move on, if you were offended by my statement about the birds just now, my apologies, this show is Sweet Trends, we love birds. It's just a figure of speech, but let me clean it up and say this instead, how about two dreams with one wish? I'm knocking out two dreams with one wish, bam.
All right, now, moving right along. As far as Earth Day goes, and the fact that we are dealing with this whole social distancing thing, my hope is that each and every one of you has some type of fruit in your house, that you just didn't get all of the chips out of the grocery store when you did your shopping the last time, that you actually got some type of fruit. You got lemons, you got oranges, you got apples, you got pears, peaches, plums, something, watermelon. That's my wish.
If you did, guess what? For Earth Day, you can plant some of the seeds from the fruit you have in your house, or if you've got maybe scallions or onions or sweet potatoes or whatever, take one of them babies and stick them in the dirt, grow something, why don't ya? You can do that, it'll be helpful to the Earth, it'll be helpful to the atmosphere, you know, how humans and plants have that whole little exchange deal going on, oh my gosh, and on top of that, you can do this with your kindergartener. You really don't even need to have dirt, so if you live in the big city somewhere, or if you live in the deep country, no matter where you are, you can do this, because you can actually start a seed in cotton.
Like, do you remember doing that when you were in a kid in school, you took a little bean, and you put it in the moist cotton or in the paper towel, and you wet it, and you checked on it every day, and then eventually one day you opened up that little moist napkin, and you saw the root and the sprout coming out of the seed. Hello, that has Earth Day written all over, it's easy, it's cheap, you know, and then now, granted, you're gonna get to a point where you're gonna need some type of soil, some type of dirt, or whatever, but in the meanwhile, while you're trying to get the seed to sprout, you can go ahead and get those other things going. I literally have at my house, I've got basil, cilantro, I've got what is the thing called, avocado, an avocado seed, or I guess you don't call it a seed, it's more of a pit, the big old thing in the middle, you can actually root that thing in water, yes, oh my gosh, do I need to give you some tips? I will, I promise, I will.
What else, I've got mint, and lots of citrus, seeds, and so I say citrus because I will just take the seeds and put them in dirt, so I don't know if they're lemons or oranges or whatever, they're not big enough to actually create a tree that bears fruit, but there was a seed that I planted when I was in kindergarten, no lie, this is a true story, that I had at my mother's house. At some point in time, I don't know when she doesn't even really seem to remember when it was, but my mother planted that little tree outside in the yard, because it used to be just in a pot in the garage, she put it outside, last year it had its first orange, there was one solitary orange on the tree, and now she's telling me that there are blossoms all over the tree, and so she's like, I'll probably get about maybe 10 or 11 oranges from it this time, and I'm so excited, but I'm not gonna tell you how old I am, to let you know how long it took, but what I will say is that I'm pretty sure that it depends on the amount of time, that if the seed had been in the ground sooner, it would have, I don't know the proper term, bear-born fruit would have popped up on it before now, because yeah, this is a long investment, you gotta be in for the long haul, that's all I'm saying. So my first suggestion was planting a seed, my next suggestion is to recycle, it is amazing, and I think it's one of those things that if you can't see it with your own eyes, and it doesn't make sense, like certain things in this world, you cannot fathom just off of your imagination, because there are certain things that you just can't imagine, and a big old pile of trash in a place is one of those things for me, before I actually saw it, before I moved to Virginia and saw places like Mount Trashmore and realized that that that used to be a mound of trash, and now they turned it into a park, and I think that's great, but the fact that it used to be trash there to start with, I'm like, oh man, and I've seen the other landfills in the area, and it just makes me wonder, though, what's actually seeping into the ground, and how long is it gonna be, before we start seeing the negative effects of those things that we've just thrown in a hole somewhere. So my recommendation is to try to recycle, whether it's recycling goods from your house, did you know that if you recycled newspaper, you can actually take the newspaper and turn it into a pseudo pot for a plant, put dirt in it, so this is from my previous section, put the seed from what we were just talking about, into some dirt in a container, like you could use like a soda can, wrap the newspaper around the soda can, and maybe a little bit of tape, or a little bit of glue or something, put the soil in it, put the seed in it, water that baby, and then you can plant the entire thing in the ground because it will decompose, the paper will decompose, that you've done something good, because now you've recycled the paper, it's doing something good for the earth, for the plant and everything, and then the other thing is, don't just recycle stuff like your plastics and your papers, also how about considering recycling your food waste, like starting a compost bin, and you can do something as simple as like a soda bottle, like a two liter bottle version of a composter, just start with, and I got one of them too, it's not a soda bottle, it's actually a water bottle, I don't remember how big the water bottle is, but I can share that with you too, because you would then take your organic waste, the things like the chicken egg, shells, and your fruits and vegetables and things like that, you put those in your composter with soil, you don't have to have the worms, worms will make it go faster, and honestly, on a rainy day, worms come out, you can find a worm or two, you might be creeped out about actually picking it up and putting it in a container, but you can get over that, you can go wash your hands, that's all we do nowadays anyway, right, we go wash our hands and we cover our sneezes, and we stay away from people, we stay home, but seriously, that is another way that you can help mother earth, is by starting to recycle, almost every place has a recycling program, now I'll admit, overseas, their recycling programs are leaps and bounds above and beyond ours, here in the States, these dog-on-Americans, I know I'm American too, but you can't tell them what to do, they're gonna do what they wanna do, and that's frustrating to me, because in that whole act of having rights, and I can do what I wanna do, it's like they seem to fail to realize that you help yourself, but you hurt all of us, including yourself at the same time, so you know, a helping to hurt those cancel each other out, so you're kinda like, still not there, but because they can't see it in the moment where it's hurting them, then it's like it doesn't matter, so if I can just get everybody on the bandwagon with me, to start seeing things a little bit different, start just maybe do one little thing for somebody else, for the Earth, and not focus on self all the time, I think we could be in a lot better situation than what we currently are in.
Well that was today's episode of Tweet Trends, I gave you a couple of little gems and nuggets out there to use, and yes, although today is National Kindergarten Day, guess what y'all, the kids are gonna be alright, I promise you, because if you look at it and think about the whole situation with education now as it is anyway, no two places are doing education the same here in the United States, so that means all the kids are getting a little something different, kids in rural areas are getting stuff different from the kids in the cities and whatnot, and so like I said, the kids are gonna be alright, but this Earth right here, we've only got one, we got one chance to get this thing right, and the more we get it wrong, the worse things are gonna turn out for us, and you just don't wanna sit there and wonder what is it gonna be like, it very well could be, the fact that we're going through this situation with the coronavirus, that it's due to some of the stuff that we are doing wrong here in the world as it is, so be kind to yourself, but y'all, on top of that, be kind to the Earth, enjoy tomorrow, Earth Day, do something, share it with me, I wanna know what you're doing to celebrate Earth Day, even if it's just that you are not gonna drive your car, it shouldn't be going anywhere, anyhow, right? So if you're not gonna drive your car, or you're not gonna run some appliance that puts pollution out into the air, you know, you're not gonna spray that aerosol can, I don't know, surprise me, just surprise me, and when you do that, head on over to Twitter, post it, tag me at hayevept, that's at H-E-E-E-T-E, or use my hashtag tweet trends, and I will love you for it.