1, I spent time late this morning and on into the early afternoon taking care of things: paid the water bill; paid the City of Kellogg bill; took cardboard boxes to the dump; drove to Wallace to add miles on the Camry so I could get our wheels retorqued; fueled the car.
Nothing revolutionary.
Nothing exciting.
Just necessary and satisfying.
2. Debbie and I drove to Spokane to attend the Science/Nature Book Club at Auntie's Bookstore.
I seem to have decided that this otherwise easy and relaxing trip needed a shot of weirdness.
I parked the car in the lot at Main and Stevens and when I went to pay for the parking pass to put on our dashboard, I put my debit card in the (unmarked) slot meant for paper currency.
The machine ate my card. At some point later on, a parking lot employee will open up that machine and find my debit card.
It'll be dead.
Debbie paid for the parking pass and I called the credit union, put my lost card out of its misery, and I'll order a new one with another call Wednesday morning.
I did my best to put my careless mistake behind me so we could enjoy our bowls of curry at the Mango Tree.
3. The Book Club meeting began at 6:00.
The people in the group were easy to be with and the discussion got better and better as our meeting progressed.
We entered into substantial discussion about wildness in the midst of the toxic impact we humans have on land, water, and air and, in turn, on plants, fish, animals and other living things.
The book inspired club members to refer to other books they've read (or that the club has read) and I enjoyed finding out about books I hadn't heard of and a few that I did know about.
I thought telling the book club that I was from Kellogg was appropriate to our discussion. Not all the club members knew that Debbie and I live in a Superfund site. I know that much of the rehabilitation of the Silver Valley is from constructive human intervention: trees planted, soil replaced, slag piles removed, and so on.
What I don't know -- and don't know if I'm capable of observing or discovering -- is whether wild plant life, damaged in the past, has made its way back the way Christopher Brown writes about this happening in the empty lot he purchased and had remediated. I don't know much about native plant life in this area, how much of it has been damaged, and what evidence one can find of it coming back to life again.
I know that many of the trees, flowers, and other vegetation in and around Kellogg are beautiful, but not wild.
So, I'm curious.
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