Too often when Jenna and I had gone walking she would want to pick up litter and collect treasures. I wasn’t overly fond of having her touch all that she did but tried to make a habit of bringing two plastic bags for each walk – one for the garbage and one for the treasures. It was her idea to beautify the earth and so I did not want to discourage her from trying to clean it up. The litter she found mostly consisted of paper though occasionally we would find straws, wrappers, or sticks from suckers. Her treasures would include rocks, leaves, shiny things, clothing items (which would get washed before I’d allow her or her stuffed pets to wear them) and pine cones.
Her thought process
today is really not much different. She’ll continue to
collect things to be thrown away or whatever may grab her interest – including masks that
have been left in the parking lot. She
hasn’t
touched any of the disposable ones but found a black cloth mask in the parking
lot yesterday morning. That went into
the washing machine the minute we returned home. She washed her hands and I took a shower as
we had both touched it.
Our car appeared that
it had been through a dust storm – though I wasn’t aware how horrible
it looked until I got behind the wheel and my view was quite distorted. I washed both cars after we had returned
home. I didn’t figure their cleanliness
would bring on rain (which happens in many cases right after the car gets
washed) but did see the wind blowing later in the day.
Before the pandemic
our governor created a law to remove the plastic though it has seemed to be
swept under the rug as more pressing issues have targeted this year. I don’t see plastic littering like I used
to. We do have a new concern.
