Warning sign I saw the other day.

Our old dog loved fall.

Remember when we had 'government cheese' in the 1980s? Why don't they consider making government tofu today?

Since 2022, Texas has sent 32,500 migrants to Chicago. Now, they've sent Border Patrol agents to take undocumented migrants into custody. WTF? They already HAD them and could have processed them in Texas in the first place.

#31DaysofGraves "Color" Gravesite of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. The background is a burst of colorful fall foliage.

It's National Cat Day today! (29 October) Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)

#31DaysOfGraves "Occupation" Grave marker of William Ambrose Hulbert (1832-1882), one of the founders of baseball's National League. He was also president of the Chicago White Stockings team.

#31DaysOfGraves "Column" A column is nice, but 16 are even better. Grave of Palmer family. The two sarcophagi are for Potter Palmer (1826-1902) and his wife Bertha (1850-1918). Three generations of Palmer descendants are buried in the floor. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

#31DaysOfGraves "Tree" This grave in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, marks the resting place of George S. Bangs. While serving in the administration of Ulysses Grant, Mr. Bangs developed the railroad mail car. This achievement is memorialized in the base of the stone tree.

#31DaysOfGraves "Figure" This statue casually sits atop the gravestone of Dr. Christopher Manuel who died suddenly while riding his bicycle along the lakefront (presumed coronary failure). He was only 40 at his death. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.

#31DaysOfGraves "Ornament" This Laredo Taft sculpture, called Eternal Silence, stands over the plot of Dexter Graves' family in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is commonly referred to as the Statue of Death.

#31DaysOfGraves "Landscape" Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is also a certified arboretum with fifty varieties of over 2,000 trees.

#31DaysOfGraves Peter Schoenhofen (1827-1893) Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It features the unlikely combination of an Egyptian pyramid structure, flanked by a sphinx on the right and a typical Victorian era angel on the left. Suggested that he may have been hedging his bet on the afterlife.

#31DaysofGraves Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect. His dates of birth and death are inscribed on the gold cube, his name is on the south and west interior sides. People visiting the cemetery interact with this by moving the smooth stones at its base onto the walls and inside the sculpture.

Final Fat Bear Week vote tomorrow.

Thugs looking for trouble or just 'tourists' on a Sunday stroll downtown? Somebody tell them Chicago is not a border city. They have no business here.

Does this body make my head look small?

The question I ask voters regarding Administration jobs in the government: Do you want someone competent, or do you want a Republican?

Kitty is very interested in the sparrows visiting the bush outside the window.

When things are just too much....

Our cat turned a folded blanket into a little cave for herself. Happy #Caturday!

The shock of disbelief “seeing a familiar landscape transformed by the addition of the unfamiliar, living among everyday sights suddenly made bizarre, no longer feeling at home in places they had known all their lives.” LA in 2025? No, Paris 1940. (quote from Historian Ian Ousby)

In Iowa on July 3 Trump said: “[Democrats] wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that? I really do. I hate them.” Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.

The bear cams started streaming this week at Katmai. Here's Grazer and her yearling Biggie.

Settling in for a nice long holiday weekend.

If you have pet life insurance on your cat, your claim will be denied 8 times before they pay out.

I have short-term memory loss, but it's okay because I never remember I have it.

If you can send your fiance and her girlfriends to space for the fun of it, you have too much money. Fuck Bezos. Fuck Amazon.

I've secured the window well cover where Mama Raccoon hid her spring babies last year. They all made it out, but I don't want the worry again.

If the parents had no problem with rolling down their backseat tinted windows to let their young teen give protesters the finger, I had no problem telling the kid to bite me.

I was right. Trump left for Florida today.

Consider this: After Trump finished his tariff announcement yesterday, businesses, investors and the market reacted while he went back to the oval and confirmed his foursome for this weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

I just researched candidates for my local school board and community college board. I'm ready to vote today!

Republicans who do not face the people should face the music.

For my Chicago people. See you at Daley Plaza on the 5th! www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Waking up from nap.

The girls are at the vet for their check up.

A large female beaver lives in the Chicago River at the intersection of the south, southwest, and west sides of the city (Pilsen/Bridgeport area). The Urban Rivers org wants to give her a name! Suggestions so far: Dam Ryan, Sigourney Beaver, Lori Heavyfoot, Large Marge.

Sharing assets before the settlement agreement: Ex: I’m taking the boat this weekend. Me: Tell your girlfriend she can’t sit on my side of the boat. Ex: And which side is that? Me: The top.

All is well. The perilous rubber band has been subdued.

I love shopping Costco. No where else can you go for groceries and come home with a 12-pack of toothbrushes and a canoe.

The band Widespread Panic needs to trademark its name.

Our cat has started wall sniffing. And I sorta get it. #winterboredom

It took me years to learn how to parallel park in one try. People who drive those self-parking cars can bite me.

Four years ago thousands loudly stormed the capital and terrorized the congressional staff. This weekend one unelected immigrant and six college-age boys quietly entered an office building and have terrorized the entire country.

Saw the 19-year-old boy next door come home yesterday with a large U.S. flag on his pickup truck and now I'm suspicious of him. Sad, but not ashamed that I think that way now.

By next month, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will have more backwards ice skating moves than Michelle Kwan.

Rabbits need to chew on fibrous materials to keep their teeth properly worn down and even they won't eat kale.

When the pressures of the job soon begin to weigh heavily on Hegseth, what are the chances he will dive into a bottle of gin to ease the burden? Bookmakers take note.

People don't accept name changes easily. Just ask a Chicagoan what the name of this building is. (Hint: It's not Willis Tower)