Month: July 2025

The dog is writhing on the living room floor and punctuating that activity with long, high-pitched cries.  He is not sick, although he could be described as under the weather.  In short, he got rained on.      We’d gone a few blocks on our morning constitutional when the grey sky began to leak.  No problem. … Continue reading Wet Dog and Butterfly

Weather history was made right here in Ann Arbor today.  The Ann Arbor Art Fair is going on now.  It covers thirty city blocks and features a thousand artists.  By time-honored tradition, it also, seemingly without fail, features the worst weather of the summer.  The organizers even fiddled with the dates one year, to no… Continue reading Weather History

Mosey was the top speed Sue and I hit on our walk around the neighborhood today, as the weather continued hot and muggy.  Turns out mosey is a fine speed for admiring things.  On Georgetown, for instance, we stopped to admire a monarch butterfly feeding on the milkweed in someone’s garden.  It was picture perfect,… Continue reading Sue Takes Pictures

This morning’s walk was a double double.  Burrito was the first.  The neighbor’s two kids passed us, chugging up the hill as Rascal and I were going down it.  The kids were, ostensibly, walking the family’s puppy.  In truth, it wasn’t obvious who was walking whom.  The pup is a Great Dane that joined the… Continue reading Double Double

At this time of year every year, as we near the Fourth of July, flowers at our house turn red, white, and blue.  Or the floral equivalent thereof—blue is hard to come by in flowers.  Unlike the neighbor down the street, who plants a patriotically themed garden every year, I can take no credit for… Continue reading Summer Signs