Ponder Pages

Well for me this week has been kind of on the boring side. The only different thing I've done this week is start posting on my new blog. It's called, Dear Howard, A Fading History. It's based on the old letters, pictures, and scrap book that belonged to my Grandparents  http://dear-howard-a-fading-history.blogspot.com I thought instead of putting those things here I'd start a whole new place for them. It's still a work in progress as I'm still trying to decide what to all put on there for links and other things. So if you want you can check it out. As for the rest of my week. I'm tired of the snow. This the most snow we have had at this time year in a long time. The questions I've been pondering are, whether we will get all this snow now and have an early spring? Or is this the beginning of a very long winter season? Like we had last year. Last year the snow started a little later but hung around till May. Plus it was still cold in June last year...

This is a question that has been bouncing around in my head for a couple of weeks. What triggered it? I was looking around at work at all the things that have plastic in them or is all plastic. Then I thought about all things in all of life that are some kind of plastic. I'm guessing that 90% of everything in our life is made of some form of plastic.  This got me to thinking about the history of plastic. So I looked it up. This is what I found. The first time plastic was revealed was in 1862 by a man named Alexander Parkes. He called it Parkesine. It was made from organic cellulose. It was suppose to do anything natural rubber could but cost less. This first attempt to mass produce was poor because he tried to reduce production costs. Just think of that, a factory trying to cut cost to make more profit. Now I know where that started. In 1869 celluloid was introduced. It was made from cotton fiber and the plant material camphor. Originally it was to be a cheaper substi...