Last Monday I took the dogs for a hike in the 3-Creeks Natural Area. It’s remarkable that this area is so close to the modern drag of 82nd Avenue. It’s like walking down into a little pocket of the wild. Here is the path before us: Here was the path behind us. Civilization lurks just […]
I have posted about some of the many churches in my neighborhood here. It is through walking the dogs that I have been by all these various houses of worship, and on one street there are three halal stores and one storefront mosque and on that street I hope my dogs don’t give offense. Anyway, […]
The sign below is posted about a half-block down the street from a couple of these churches. I guess there are some folks who don’t like the infusion of cars every Sunday (and Wednesday as well, apparently).
I have always enjoyed taking walks, but it is only because of my wish to keep the dogs’ walks somewhat fresh that we have explored practically every street within a thirty to forty-five minute radius from our house. If it weren’t for the dogs, I certainly would have no need to go walk down the […]
I wouldn’t walk past this parking lot except when I take the dogs for a walk in this particular area, hence the category. I don’t think they peed on this while I took the picture:
Dog crap and dead leaves bear one important similarity: their color. From which follows: legal jeopardy. To whit: when my dog craps in the piles of leaves you leave on the sidewalk, it makes it difficult to fulfil my obligation to society. Also: it is dark early these days and my cell phone doesn’t help […]
“What the fuck’s wrong with people?” Drag dogs down sidewalk They mourn dropped dirty diaper
I was just in a meeting that began with my observation that the rain outside was falling almost perfectly sideways. Perhaps that effect was exaggerated by us being on the eleventh floor, but whereas in December horizontal rain is not so welcome and would solicit suicidal groans from my co-workers, after the miserable heat of […]
Recent books read: We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin The Warden, by Anthony Trollope Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires, by Selwyn Raab The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II (Modern Library Edition), by Edward Gibbon Today is muggy and I am logy but I still […]
One of the advantages of walking dogs is the chance to explore the neighborhood. I’ve probably been on every street in a forty-five minute walk radius of our house. Still there are a few routes we walk regularly, and even there I am always seeing things I never noticed before. Yesterday evening I was walking […]
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