Dinosaur detention area. See also: Red Bridge detention area.
Category: Local
2023-06-29 13:33
National Weather Service: “Destructive 80 mph winds.”
Jackie, wanting to be clear: “Not the constructive kind.”
2023-06-27 15:57
Other times when the #airquality has been “bad” according to some metric or another, I’ve generally found it no big deal. This time that’s not true: the air quality here is legit terrible. And there aren’t even any forests burning up here in Illinois.
2023-06-26 06:48
The pose in this picture reminded me of the famous Andrew Wyeth painting of the girl reclining in the grass facing a farmhouse. Here Ashley is reclining in the grass facing Winfield Village’s office and community room. #dogsofmastodon
2023-06-24 06:45
One of the many nice things about having a dog is getting up in time to see the sunrise almost every day.
2023-06-21 18:22
There is a squirrel up that tree. #dogsofmastodon
2023-06-21 13:27
If I’d realized that this run would be 0.01 miles less than my longest run ever, I’d have run another 0.02 miles. I did run it three minutes faster, though, despite the heat. #run 🏃🏻♂️
It may not be obvious from the picture below, but those sprinklers are not only blocking the sidewalk; they cover the entire right-of-way from the detention pond to the drainage creek. To get around it I had to walk through a parking lot, down the street, and back through two more parking lots.
2023-06-19 13:20
Any time spent asleep is time well spent. #dogsofmastodon
2023-06-17 11:52
Dawn is pretty early this time of year—too early for me to see the sunrise, but not too early for me to get this picture.
About one minute after I took this picture, the solar arrays started to turn to point east.
Ashley howling with the emergency siren
Just a month or two after we got Ashley we happened to have the bad luck of walking right under the siren used for tornado warnings when they did their monthly test. (Something they do on the first Tuesday of every month at 10 AM.)
Ashley started howling along, which made me laugh. But then Ashley looked a little embarrassed, and I couldn’t have that.
So I started howling along with the siren myself, to assure her that it was entirely appropriate behavior, and she joined back in.
We’ve done that every month since then, but I had failed to capture it on video until a couple of days ago with this month’s test.