Katie and I travelled with my mom to visit our Aunt and Uncle in the Texas Panhandle again.
We tried to get close to their cows, but they were skittish and kept their distance from us; then we went out hunting for rattlesnakes to kill because my uncle spotted some recently.
The rattlesnakes, in addition to being dangerous to people, also can bite the cows and make them very sick, and they eat the quail eggs. There are pheasants and quail up here at the farm, and my uncle wants to continue to foster their habitats for hunting and what-not.
The wind farms are moving in all over the place up here from Abilene to where we are in the northwest corner of Texas. I can imagine in ten to twenty years seeing the landscape covered in the huge windmills, which I don’t think is a bad thing; animals can continue to graze under them and crops can be grown around them, too, I believe.
I joined the “Green team” at my work last week, which is a group that is going to encourage good stewardship of the environment at our company, which just announced that we have joined the Austin clean energy program, where we will get 10% of our total electricity usage from West Texas wind farms over the next 15 years.
Funny you should mention the wind farm. I just learned that my small rural hometown in Indiana is now part of the largest wind farm in the country. My grandfather just had three erected on his property.
Go you! I hope your Green Team is able to foster some great green “workstyles” at your company. Did you see/get any rattlesnakes?
Frances