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There are at least four (really bad) puns here

One more week and this becomes a thing, but today I saw this cruise down the highway. If you think of it, most everything gets shipped somewhere, one way or another. But you never really think about...

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The tank banks

I saw this piggy bank at Stonehenge. At the time I had no idea about the history behind it, which is, like most history, rather interesting. It comes from a World War 1 British fund raising campaign....

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We did a half Ironman this weekend

In Macon, Georgia it rained. We’d traveled over Friday night, stayed in a hotel and woke up early to get rained on. That wouldn’t be a problem. There was to be a fair amount of swimming on Saturday....

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Where the people are moving

As ever, this barn was at or near the top of a hill on today’s bike ride. It was but a 22-mile ride, and another piece of mounting evidence, impossible to ignore, that I don’t know how to ride on...

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nasses Nickerchen

I saw this word used a few years back and immediately fell in love with it: administrivia. It is an American thing, of course, and apparently came out of the 1930s. Can’t imagine why. And it became...

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We go back in time

I didn’t go out to see this, because we shouldn’t be going out anywhere right now, but this is really lovely. @BuskirkChumley in Bloomington, Indiana pic.twitter.com/UWQsSkZvZH — Indiana University...

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The heights of things

This was the sky on Saturday. We were at the post office and I shot this through the sunroof. Some days you feel like you can reach the clouds, and some days you feel like you need a great big ladder....

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The lighthouses

Why, yes, we are on day four of milking our four-day trip that took place a full week ago. You’d rather I try to make office things interesting or something? We romanticize lighthouses these days. They...

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Rocks and washing machines

I was gripped, a few years ago, by an article that made the case for the washing machine as the most important invention of the 20th century. Sure, you say, there’s also the refrigerator and the...

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Unconcerned as the deer

I got a decent shot of the fawn on the lawn as I rode through one of the campus neighborhoods. Three or four seem to sit there every evening. It’s a grassy, wooded lot that sits next to an odd rental,...

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