August 3, 2023 11:00 am
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Everything got a bit orange when another of those Canadian Wildfire plumes blew into Pittsburgh for about a day a few weeks ago. Didn’t matter, as urgent business was at hand. If you’ve never had a dog, allow me to explain the situation.
Puppies, in particular, but all Dogs go through phases of doing stuff that drives their humans crazy. These phases come and go, and eventually the dog realizes that the best course of behavioral action is one that results in a wonderland of care and material comfort. Puppies roll through a new cycle about every three or four days.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I’ve introduced y’all to Moe the Dog before, and he’s a great little guy most of the time. There’s some rough spots that Our Lady of the Pentacle and myself are working on training out of him, but overall he’s going to be a good dog when he matures.
On this particular day, the household mission was to render him as tired as we could, as Moe had just entered the ‘bitey asshole’ phase. Luckily, Pittsburgh has just the medicine for this sort of thing, and we took him to Southside Park along the Monongahela River for a looooooong walk on a wooded urban trail. He got to menace rabbits, birds, and possibly spotted a beaver whom he wished to murder. Moe’s ire was also directed towards those multitudes of squirrels which are along the route. Upon returning home, he peed in the living room and then went to sleep on the couch. Upon awaking roughly 130 minutes later, he bit me in the crotch.
At the time of this writing, ‘bitey asshole’ has transitioned into ‘I’m so cute, please scratch my ears’ followed by violent ‘zoomies’ where he leaps about while snapping his jaws. Can’t wait to see what happens next. I might need to contact the Marines for help.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s the Monongahela River, incidentally. Everything smelled like BBQ in Pittsburgh due to the smoke plume. Moe enjoyed himself.
I’m too old for this shit.
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What is the first photo about? Looks like a closed trapdoor on hell.
By Buttons66 on August 8, 2023 at 8:50 pm
It’s a storm sewer. One which I presume to be a ‘CSO’ or combined sewer outfall. During heavy rains, they raise the gate and release untreated mixture into the Monongahela River, which supplies drinking water to several communities. It’s the sort of thing you commonly see it east coast cities.
By Mitch Waxman on August 8, 2023 at 9:52 pm