Water, water everywhere

Gentle readers,

Happy belated Earth Day to you. So I am greeted this morning by headlines that my plastic water bottle may cause everything from headaches and obesity to cancer. So, those folks who were trying to do a good thing and use a reusable bottle...well, the jokes on them. Except for no one is laughing.

What do we do? How do we get rid of this toxic plastic? Melt it down and release the noxious fumes into the atmosphere and hope for the best? No. Launch it in to space and hope life forms more advanced that ours find it and know what to do with it? Neat idea, but not practical. You can either use recyclable plastic bottles and hope for the best or roll the dice and keep on using your Nalgene bottles. It's almost the dilemma to end all dilemmas. What a one to occur so close to Earth Day.

So, when it comes down to us or earth...golly, what the heck kind of choice is that? So I'll give it to you straight. Seems like the only safe thing to do is to shed our earthly possessions, move to the mountains and take our water directly from the fresh running mountain streams. I mean that's where the good folks at Perrier and San Pelligrino and Evian get their stuff, right? And charge us fools a couple bucks for a few ounces of the stuff? If we are to make this move, we must be swift before global warming melts all the polar icecaps and the mountain streams run dry!

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

Random Musing Item: Do you know how to tell the difference between a seal and a sea lion? I didn't until recently. Among the myriad ways is that sea lions have ears and seals don't. Also, sea lions have longer front flippers for easier maneuverability on land. My many thanks to Coco, Surfer and Boomerang of the Mystic Aquarium for the valuable lesson.