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Walks with the dogs

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Welcome to the Neighborhood

  05.03.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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).

• Art, Portland, Sports, Walks with the dogs

  Raider Nation

  03.28.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  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 [...]

• Walks with the dogs

  Where would Jesus park?

  02.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  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:

• Walks with the dogs

  What Up Gangsta

  12.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Walks with the dogs, Work

  New distraction

  12.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Back from Sacto and back to work. Should be getting stuck in to that but cannot be arsed. Could be because I am itching to check Facebook, to which I was introduced by my dear wife during our vacation last week. I’m going to assume it’s blocked from work and not even try accessing it; [...]

• Walks with the dogs

  Haiku

  10.27.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “What the fuck’s wrong with people?” Drag dogs down sidewalk They mourn dropped dirty diaper

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  The rain in Portland falls mainly on the dogs

  08.20.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 [...]

• Books, Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Otium sine litteris mors est

  07.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Portland, Walks with the dogs

  Litter

  06.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• Music, Walks with the dogs

  Confounding Expectations

  06.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tuesday was a chilly day, with the temperature in the forties, and an obligingly cold rain soaked the Resident Dogs on our evening walk.  By the time I took the Short-term Dog for a walk it had stopped raining but it still felt like winter to me.  Yesterday was warmer and dry so I went for [...]

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