stupid global warming<\/a>) my offspring and I will be spending much more time out and about on the mostly lovely streets of our neighborhood. So it is with much neighborliness that I implore you to<\/p>\nCURB YOUR (damn) DOG AND SCOOP THE (damn) POOP (please!)<\/p>\n
Let’s break it down, shall we?<\/p>\n
CURB: This is the very edge of the sidewalk, right next to the street. It’s most courteous to have your dog do its business there, because most people don’t spend a lot of time walking on this particular bit of sidewalk. The curb is not<\/b> the building side of the sidewalk — please note that when you let your dog pee on that side then there’s a little river of pee all the way down to the street. Nobody likes pee river jumping at 8am.<\/p>\n
YOUR: Possessive pronoun which indicates that the canine(s) in question do, indeed, belong to you<\/b>, presumably a responsible adult who realizes that dogs don’t use the toilet and thus need cleaning up after.<\/p>\n
DOG: The animal in question. Four-legged and furry, often very sweet, yet must deposit waste products somewhere (as must all animals).<\/p>\n
SCOOP: Using a plastic bag, pick up the excrement left so thoughtfully at the curb by your dog. Simple and neighborly, why not do it today?!<\/p>\n
POOP: The waste product in question.<\/p>\n
Seriously, it is DISGUSTING the amount of dogshit in my neighborhood these days. PEOPLE, let’s get it together!<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n
In other news, there’s really no other news. I’m hard at work on not one but two top secret projects, but I can’t tell you about them yet because they are TOP! SECRET! Gus has been watching a lot of Pee Wee lately. We made chocolate cookies for a friend’s birthday last week and there were too many for the box, so now the extras are in our freezer, mocking me with their irresistible chocolatyness. We had a very fun surprise visit from a friend of ours from college over the weekend. I’m sort of caught up on email, but I haven’t talked to anyone in my family for a long time. We’re considering taking the train to visit my dad in VT — it’s an 8.75 hr train ride as opposed to a 7.5 hr car ride (driving time, not including stops) and much cheaper than flying (even on JetBlue, bah). But man, that’s a loooooong ride. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Attention fellow residents of Prospect Heights: Now that the weather’s warming up (not that it was ever really that cold this winter to begin with, stupid global warming) my offspring and I will be spending much more time out and about on the mostly lovely streets of our neighborhood. So it is with much neighborliness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}