Seamans Gulch
None of you are probably wondering about my creative process for writing these newsletters. I’m starting to wonder about it. I get the week’s design from Kelly and immediately think, “I don’t know anything about that.” So I turn to Google…
This week I Google: “Seamans Gulch Landfill Boise history.” I start scrolling through results. Not much… then I see the “Questions People Ask” section. “How do I dispose of a mattress?” “Can I throw away a microwave?” This is how people end up going down rabbit holes… I resist those rabbit holes and see that there is a Yelp page for Seamans Gulch. I eagerly click on it only to be disappointed that no one has left a Yelp review for the dump. That could have been great…
I revised my search a little and found a KTVB news article on how the landfill is only going to last 60 years instead of the 90 they had originally predicted. Usually by now I have found some kind of random tidbit to share with you which then triggers an even more random memory from my past, but I’m having trouble getting there. So then I’m starting to Google: “weird facts about seagulls” and thinking nobody cares about seagulls… But as I’m typing that, I remember seeing seagulls eating vomit in a McDonald’s parking lot in Detroit, it’s an image I’ve never been able to shake. But that was in Detroit not Boise. Seagulls here wouldn’t do that.
Boom! I got it! Remember those blue recycling bins that came out in the 90s? I’m assuming it was Boise’s first attempt at a recycling program. My parents didn’t really believe in recycling. I’m not really sure what their aversion to it was, they weren’t big hand washers either… and now I’m wondering if my Dad reads this newsletter… I’m thinking that he doesn’t, but I guess we’ll find out. Now I’m picturing Kelly proof reading this and telling me to stop writing things about our family. I know this is hard to follow but THIS is the creative process you weren’t wondering about. Anyways, blue recycling bins. Our Schnauzer gave birth in ours on more than one occasion. Also if you plugged the holes on the bottom you could use it as a tub to wash your dogs, we did that too. I’m curious what other people used theirs for.
And just like that,
—Heidi
