When I was a student in a one room country school the little newspaper, called The Weekly Reader, brought news of the wider world. Before the advent of TV and with only limited radio connection the main source of news to our family was the newspaper, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader, that came to us by mail. Receiving The Weekly Reader at school was a nice supplement.
Of all The Weekly Readers read at school, only one article sticks in my memory. This article was about an amazing new substance that was going to revolutionize our lives. It has! That sustance was plastic. It not only changed our lives it now threatens to choke us with pladtic particles ubiquitous. It even appears in the grassland, the site of rock picking.
Those big, round bales seen in the fields along the road are almost always wrapped in a plastic covering. Yesterday, while picking rocks, I found remnants of that mesh. There are at least two dangers with the plastic mesh left in a field. It can become tangled in machinery causing equipment failure. If cattle injest it fatality can result. The plastic lodges in one of the bovines stomachs and prevents digestion, leading to death. So, rock picking was supplemented with plastic retrieval.
Takk for alt,
Al
The country school buidling I attended, now painted red instead of white.
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