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Snow in July?
The polar vortex has made this last week, the traditionally hottest week of the year here in Sweat Louis downright pleasant. I can only wonder how cold it is up north, while it is so nice down here....
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Neighbors
I didn’t get much sleep last night, because our newest neighbor, a SLU co-ed, also-known-as Party Girl, was living up to the nickname that her father gave her after he installed her in the...
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Anne and I rode in the park this morning. For me it has been three weeks since I was last in Forest Park. For Anne it has been closer to two months. We have two weeks left to train for … Continue...
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How Hot Is It?
How hot is it? It is too darn hot. You may think it is hot where you live, but you’d be wrong. Today it was 97 °F here in Saint Louis, which is hot, but not the hottest high Fahrenheit … Continue...
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2014 MS-150 Bike Ride
This was our MS-150 bicycling weekend. To all of our donors, thank you very much! It’s a good cause, a cause that cyclists have helped to raise over $700M since 1946. To all you want-to-be donors it’s...
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What’s Your Vector Victor?
On last Friday morning, observers at the Saint Louis National Weather Service (NWS) noticed some fairly high radar returns moving south over southern Illinois and central Missouri. Even though the...
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Saint Louis Scottish Festival
Both Anne and I bicycled together today. It has been three weeks and the MS-150 since we both felt well enough to do that. It was a gorgeous day. Well maybe a wee bit hot, but not hot hot, just …...
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Shaw Nature Reserve
Shaw Nature Reserve is located in Gray Summit, MO and is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Located forty miles west of the garden’s main site, Shaw was opened in 1925 when pollution from coal...
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Whimbrel at Asilomar
It was a quiet day at work today. Most of my colleagues had taken the day off, either to get a jump on holiday travel or simply to extend their four-day holiday weekend. Anne didn’t have school again,...
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Popular Photography
This a lovely photo! I can say this in all modesty, because I didn’t take it, my brother did. I’m looking for someone who has a subscription to the magazine, Popular Photography. My brother’s photo...
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Naughty and Nice
Anne was telling a joke about an old engineer who was called in to consult and after studying the problem, he tapped the broken machine once with a hammer and it started working again. When he sent in...
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Don’t Burst My Bubble
Dan left today, he flew back to LA. We all got up early this morning to give him a big send off. I dropped him off at the airport, on my way into work. I didn’t get a chance to … Continue reading →
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Lotus Pods
Anne and I walked to breakfast this morning. We went to a relatively new place called Whitebox. Anne had been there once before, but it was new to me. Like the name implied, the décor was white, but...
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It’s Only a Hill. Get Over it!
Anne and I went bicycling in Forest Park today. It has been over two-weeks since either of us had last been on our bikes. This is mainly because it has been so God awfully cold as of late, but not …...
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Trailnet’s Bike Swap Meet
Breaking news folks, winter happens in January! The news media is in apoplectic overload as storm Juno simultaneously bears down upon both the Big Apple and Bean Town. Gone are all of the archaic...
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Jour de la Marmotte
Today is Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more months of torture for Pete Carroll, the Seattle Seahawks head coach. Why did he have to call for that pass play that got...
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Crinkly Butt
Before a Vodou ceremony, Haitians draw a Vévé, or a sacred symbol, corresponding to the spirit that they are going to invoke. Last year, the Field Museum had an exhibit on the Vodou religion. It was...
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Blooming Bikes and Birds
Today’s high was 68 ˚F, which is not too bad considering that on Thursday morning it was only 7 ˚F. That was the morning of the infamous ‘crinkly butt’ incident, but there was no such marital discord...
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Octavia Was Here
A couple of years ago the Weather Channel began naming North American winter storms, much in the same vein as the international weather services have been naming hurricanes for some years now. I guess...
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Driveway Moment
I had a cathartic experience this morning after listening to the weekly Story Corps segment on NPR. Frequently, these stories tug at my heartstrings and this morning’s episode was no different. In this...
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