Quite the wake-up call — at 1:16 a.m. a transformer on the utility pole down the street caught fire. I grabbed this shot right from my bedroom window.
You could see the flames flickering up on the pole against the night sky, with the neighbors’ houses lit up in the orange glow. Thankfully it stayed contained to the pole.
I took a walk through Wilderness Park here in Neenah today. It was a gorgeous June afternoon, though the mosquitoes were hungry enough that they kept me moving a little quicker than I would have liked. Even at a brisk pace, the park put on a show. Wilderness Park wraps around a marsh, and on…
“I got bucky at 5 weeks old, he became part of me the moment I first held him, hes with me 24 hours a day, I would bring him to work with me as I was a truckdriver for canada post. He road shotgun in the passenger seat. we lived in the truck 12 hours…
The Fourth of July has looked about the same for me for as long as I can remember. Once it gets dark, you make your way down toward the water in Neenah, find a patch of grass, and wait for the first shell to go up over the harbor. I have been watching these fireworks…
Another shot from that same nice spring evening out on the patio. I’m sitting back in the chair giving Akiva a few pets, while Vasco keeps an eye on things from the chair to the left. There’s nothing quite like a warm spring night in the backyard with good company — even if that company…
Update (2026): I first wrote this in 2011, and I recently read back through it. The good news is that almost none of it has changed — the core of safe anesthesia care is the same today. Everything here still lines up with the American Animal Hospital Association’s current (2020) Anesthesia and Monitoring Guidelines: pre-anesthetic…
Is there anything more Wisconsin than that specific crunch of leaves under your boots in late October? I think not. Yesterday—Tuesday, October 29th—was one of those “gold-dipped” days. You know the kind I’m talking about. The sky over Lake Winnebago was that piercing, impossible blue, and the air had just enough of a bite to…