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What Adulthood Looks Like
Now that I’m over the hill (65 years old this year!), this is what gets me excited. I’m not even kidding. I’ve wanted to get rid of the old concrete laundry sink in the basement for years. For almost two decades, really. I’ve never liked that sink. It had always drained way too slowly, the Read.
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an unlikely heirloom
I went out for a walk yesterday morning, and because the temperature was ten degrees (-12 C), I wore my thick wool mittens. (And other clothing, obviously. Not just mittens. That would make this an entirely different kind of story, wouldn’t it?) When I was a boy, my parents knew what to get me for Read.
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jumbled
Things are a bit of a mess here at our little red house. We were scheduled to take delivery of a washer-dryer set today, so I moved a lot of furniture around, took doors off hinges, disconnected the old clothes washer and dryer so they were ready to be hauled away. This left the living Read.
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Hidden Away
Sparky was in his basement hidey-hole when the plumber arrived at 7:30 Tuesday morning to tear out the old concrete laundry sink in the corner of the basement and install a new one. The plumber was in between Sparky and the basement stairs, so Sparks didn’t get an opportunity to escape from the basement until Read.
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Blue Mounds State Park
Today’s hike was along the bike trails in the Blue Mounds State Park. I didn’t set out to hike the bike trails today. I originally planned to hike the hiking trails, but apparently they are mostly traveled by cross-country skiers in the winter, and I certainly didn’t want to mess up their trails. The bike Read.
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one more day out
Although it’s been relatively warmer the last few days than it was a week ago, the word “relatively” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Temps are up in the 20s from the single digits. I still had to wear several layers to go for my weekend hike in the arboretum, starting with thermal Read.
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old and tired
I spent a couple hours cleaning a lot of outdated paperwork from a file cabinet in my cubicle, all of it more than five years past its best-by date, some of it as much as ten years old. I must have made half a dozen trips from my desk to the shred bin. On the Read.
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a fine day out
Hello from the University of Wisconsin Arboretum on this fine, snowy, not-quite-freezing February morning! I try to visit the arboretum every weekend I’m not away from Madison because it’s a lovely park and it’s got miles of trails to go walking on. Today I visited the southern half of the arboretum, the part that got Read.
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IAT Blackhawk segment
It was a good day to hike the IAT Blackhawk segment, so that’s what I did. The skies were clear and sunny but the temps were very cold — 20 F when I arrived, 28 F when I departed — so I had to dress up in many layers, and even then I was pretty Read.
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IAT Cross Plains segment (again)
Went for a little hike this afternoon on the Cross Plains segment of the Ice Age Trail. Today was a relatively warm day with temps in the high 30s, which was good and bad. Good, because it was easy for me to keep warm. Bad, because the trail, which had previously been frozen solid, was Read.
This Is Drivel 