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morning walk 03/08/2025
I knew if I wanted to take a hike through the UW-Madison arboretum, I would have to get there before the sun had been up long enough to melt the ground and turn every trail into a slippery quagmire of muck, which was already starting to happen by the time I left at 10:00 this… Read.
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My First Root Canal
Do you know what dentists call a tooth that needs a root canal? Until yesterday I didn’t, but now I do. They call it a “hot tooth.” My dentist made time to take a look at my “hot tooth” this morning when I called his office and told the receptionist I had a toothache that’s… Read.
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Neighborhood Hike
What with waiting for the delivery guys to bring our new washer and dryer, and then getting everything squared away in the basement so we could use our new washer and dryer, there wasn’t enough time left over on Saturday or Sunday to drive across the county for a long hike on the Ice Age… Read.
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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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