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election night
On the morning after elections across the nation we learn our votes still matter! California voters approved Proposition 50, a measure to gerrymander the state in response to the Texas gerrymander Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Read.
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flashback – first tent
I spent a few hours yesterday afternoon cleaning up the mess of odds and ends which had piled up on my basement workbench. Amongst the detritus, I found four aluminum tent pegs. They appeared to be the tent pegs that belonged to a tent I bought while I was still in high school in, I Read.
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a little too on-the-nose
They started to demolish the east facade of the White House today in order to graft a gaudy monstrosity onto one of our most historic buildings. Not the most awful action this administration has taken recently, but still sicking nonetheless. (photo from The Washington Post) Read.
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NO KINGS
I didn’t go to the last NO KINGS rally but I sure as hell went to this one. In fact, I went to TWO: about 300 – 400 people gathered at the intersection of Monona Drive and Nichols Street in Monona, where we waved at passing motorists, most of whom were especially supportive, waving back Read.
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IAT Valley View Segment – 10/14/25
Today’s hike of the Valley View Segment of the Ice Age Trail didn’t go exactly as expected. My plan was to drop my bicycle off at the southern end of the segment where the trail emerged onto Mill Town Road, then drive to the trailhead on Timber Lane a few miles northwest, where I would Read.
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de-fence-strate
My Darling B has a garden in the back yard with a fence around it. As fences go, it’s pretty basic: a series of 4×4 posts set in the ground about four feet apart, with galvanized hardware cloth stapled to the outsides of the posts. The bottom edge of the hardware cloth is buried about Read.
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IAT Cedar Lake Project – 10/2/25 and 10/3/25
I’ve hiked many trails where stepping stones had been arranged to cross a small stream or a shallow river and when I did, I wondered how much effort and ingenuity it took to move those big stones into place. This week I found out. The Ice Age Trail Alliance was cutting a new trail through Read.
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So-long, bye-bye
Yesterday was my last day on the job. I’m retired. Again. Read.
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paperwork
I turned in my retirement paperwork today. It’s a little scary that in the near future I won’t have a job, but it’s mostly a huge relief because, honestly, I’m sick and tired of working for a paycheck. I’m relieved to be done with it. When I tell people I’m going to retire, they ask Read.
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One Ring
I just finished my twice-in-a-lifetime re-read of The Lord of The Rings yesterday evening. Twice in a lifetime seems like enough. First time was in high school, so that was, what, about forty years ago? And so I didn’t remember many of the details. I remembered the names of the principle characters, and there was Read.
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