AskRachel Time capsule treasure map & pickleball, again

Interesting fact: Nearly one in six Americans are playing pickleball. So in Durango, it’s got to be like 5 out of 6, with the other person recovering from knee surgery.

Dear Rachel, I have this stack of small papers where I have written notes to myself. Backs of envelopes, tops of receipts, things like that. I keep trying to clear it off my kitchen table, but then I see all the good ideas and think, oh I need to keep that, I won’t remember it otherwise. So the pile stays and grows. What’s a good alternative for organizing all my brilliant-for-later ideas?

– Struck by Inspiration

Dear Inspired Victim, I got it. Make yourself a special box to put all the ideas in. Like one made of fine cedar, or an old Merrell shoe box. Take that box far out into the wilderness and bury it. On your way home, create a treasure map with lots of riddlesome clues. Hide that map in your most important personal effects. You will soon forget all about the box and all its

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Author Event & Book Signing: Dan Flores, 6 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

“Current Personal Research on the Peopling of South America,” 7-8:30 p.m., FLC’s Lyceum Room, hosted by San Juan Basin Archaeological Society.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.

Karaoke Roulette, 8 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Ongoing

28th annual Creativity Festivity, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Avenue. Exhibit runs thru April 28.

62nd annual Student Juried Exhibition, The Art Gallery at Fort Lewis College. Exhibit runs until April 8.

contents, freeing yourself from the burden of all your down-the-road genius. But your heirs? They’ll kick off a Forrest Fenn-style search for whatever you buried out there.

– Marked with an X, Rachel

Dear Rachel,

I’ve seen all these letters you get about pickleball this and pickleball that. Yet somehow, Overland Park, Kans., gets celebrated as the most pickleball-obsessed city in America. (SLC was second, and someplace in Michigan was third.) I can only think that the criteria did not include letters to the newspaper, because clearly, Durango is beyond obsessed. What gives?

– Left Hanging

Dear Dangling Pickle,

Not only did Durango not make the list, but no Colorado community cracked the top 25. The list (at least the one I found) was based on Google searches about pickleball, so I can come to only one conclusion: Durangotans and Coloradans have al-

“Tyrannosaurus – Meet the Family,” Farmington Museum, 3041 E. Main St. Exhibit runs thru April 26.

The Hive Indoor Skate Park, open skate and skate lessons. For schedule and waiver, go to www.thehivedgo.org

Upcoming

“Romeo & Juliet,” presented by FLC Theatre, April 13-15, 7:30 p.m.; April 15-16, 2 p.m. FLC Mainstage Theatre. Tickets at: www.durangoconcerts.com

Great Old Broads for Wilderness “Wild for Wilderness Online Auction,” April 14-23, info at 2023wildforwilderness.afrogs.org ready reached expert status, so we don’t NEED to look up any stinkin’ information about the sport we’re best in the world at, alongside skiing, biking, rafting, drinking and costuming.

Free Legal Clinic, April 14, 4-5 p.m., Ignacio Library, 470 Goddard Ave.

Babydel’s Neon Jungle w/Seth Bass play, April 14, 8 p.m., Animas City Theatre.

Graham Good & the Paints with Haro in the Dark play, April 15, doors at 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre.

– Top that, Rachel

“Kiss the Ground: Regenerating Hope for Climate,” screening, April 17, 6 p.m., Unitarian Universalist, 419 San Juan Dr.

Planning Planting & Using an Herb Garden, April 17, 6:30 p.m., Animas Valley Grange, 7271 CR 203.

Durango PlayFest Speaker Series, featuring Broadway actor Sky Lakota-Lynch, April 20, 1-2 p.m., FLC’s Theatre Building – Main Stage Theatre.

Electronics Recycling, April 20, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Author Robin Wall Kimmerer (“Braiding Sweetgrass”), April 20, 6-7:30 p.m., FLC.

Trail Crew Brew Release Party, April 21, 4-8 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.

“Connections: An Art Show,” April 21, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Moody’s on Mill St., 15 E. Mill St., Bayfield.

Free Yoga, 6-7 p.m., April 21, Smiley Building Room 15, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.