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 […]
We had Guest Dog staying with us this last weekend. Guest Dog gets lots of compliments when I take him on walks. The other evening we passed by a couple of pre-teen girls playing in front of a house. 1st Girl: It’s a wolf! No, a husky! 2nd Girl: No, it’s a German shepherd! 1st: […]
It’s felt lately as if we’ve been stuck in a late-winter fugue state. We the people anticipate warmer days, or at least warmer rains, and yet we are chilled and our limbs are weary of cursing the gods. Perhaps it is the early onset of Daylight Savings Time this year we will blame. Such falsely […]
Last night while walking northwards with the dogs I noticed scattered folks along the west side of the street, gazing past me. Then I noticed there was the moon and it looked odd. I hadn’t brought my glasses with me but I did remember just then of the predicted lunar specatular, so although I didn’t […]
I have learned from more than one source that dogs’ paws can smell like Fritos. I would assess this for myself, but I have more than once seen my dogs step blithely into large and avoidable dog poop piles. Yesterday evening we passed the crest of Belmont as it dips over the shoulder of Mt. […]
If you emerge from the bushes in the landscaping around the Walgreen’s parking lot, and I am walking by with the dogs, and if you’ve just been in those bushes for the purpose of getting high by whatever means, then please don’t try and engage me in incoherent, drug-logic small-talk. I really don’t care what […]
Yesterday evening the power went out for about a half-hour. Only a few hours earlier I had been walking with the dogs through a several-blocks-long blackout and felt relief when I turned a corner and saw I had reached the border of restored power and that our house was lit. Whatever was wrong in that […]
After a traditional Christmas breakfast I took the dogs on the traditional Christmas Day walk. I wondered that it felt so cold and abruptly we were in the middle of thick, heavy snow. This felt like the kind of snow fall you get high up in the Alps, where sitting in the chairlift leaves you […]
Various: I have a heavy bag and a speed bag set up in the basement. It’s useful exercise to punch things that won’t hit back. Yesterday evening I was rat-a-tatting on the speed bag when the internal bladder popped. Reactions: ‘bladder’ is a funny word; I flinched and ducked like I was having a flashback […]
The other evening I led the dogs along a tricky part of a dark sidewalk along Burnside. A young lady in a car shouted, “Your dog is possessed!” as she passed. Well, thanks, but which one? Some people don’t know how to give advice. Or perhaps she is some obscure breed of troublemaker given to shouting weirdness at random passersby, then searching the intertubes for evidence that someone has posted about their provocations. In which case I have fallen into a trap and human free will must be re-examined.
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