As Seen on Today’s Walk
August 13, 2025
Janet and I set off on our weekly Wednesday walk around the Arboretum. We turned the corner at A and Russell and who should we see? Jim in the Wild!
He was on the job… surveying at the Sigma Nu fraternity just one block from our house! It may be the closest-to-home job Jim’s ever had. He coulda loaded all his stuff in his silver wagon and just walked to work today (but he didn’t). It was fun to see him working. Look how happy (and cute) he is:
This is Jim doing surveying things:
We thought it best to leave him alone.
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Our next exciting sighting was this….
This was very sweet. It’s a dad and his two young kids. The dad has pulled a crawdad out of the creek to show his kids what crawdads look like. He pointed out to us a number of them, surrounded by hundreds of tiny fish. The crawdads were all fighting with each other — thus the loss of an entire left claw on the one in the tub. We talked about crawdads for a while, then were on our way.
For the record, the injured crawdad was returned to the water. There he was going to have to fend for himself against some worthy foes. I hope he fared well.
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