Car Break-In

Earlier this week I woke up to my driver’s side window smashed in (by a spark plug, apparently a common way of breaking car windows quietly and quickly).  My GPS, which I normally take in every night, was stolen.  I was supposed to go out for one more drive, but Ted wanted to walk, instead, [...]

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Clarity Clinic of Dubuque

I think I posted a while back about the nonsense they presented as sex ed to my daughter.  False information about condoms, and made the girls responsible for everything, like they were dirty whores, and if they should get pregnant, they should give it up.  Sounded like a plan to get more cute white babies [...]

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Bus station

Bus station
Originally uploaded by Kibbles

One of the things I love about Dubuque is the old limestone in contrast with brick or other materials. They don’t tear down and rebuild, they add to.
This is an alley next to the Keyline bus terminal. My little boy likes to go visit and see the busses ’sleeping’. [...]

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Follow-up on Dubuque Police

That whole thing a while back about the dog barking in their car for a while?
Neighbor said that ANOTHER neighbor had a dog chained in the back, was barking, and the police took the dog. So it wasn’t a police dog (which I guess made sense, I didn’t think police dogs worked at night in [...]

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This is working out well

Well, I picked up some extra roma tomatoes, some garlic from the garlic stand, and some local honey (yes honey) for my tomato sauce.  I managed to somehow get the ‘tomato machine’ working.   The sauce has been cooking for about 8 hours, at least, and I will be slow cooking it even more.  I’m hoping [...]

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Dubuque Police

Lovely.
Was woken up by BARKING. A lot of it. Loud, frequent, LOUD barking.  Shaken, I checked and made sure that my dog was ok and in the house.  I got out of bed, looked outside, and there were two police cars in front of my house, sitting in the dark.
I opened my front door, and [...]

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Peosta Campus

Peosta Campus
Originally uploaded by Kibbles

This building, right here, is where my medical terminology class takes place. Yes, my college is also the home of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety.
There is a tractor in one of the ‘rooms’. (AG1) I heard there is an upside down one behind the building to help students [...]

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Taste of Dubuque

Well, at least the food was edible.
My retired parents flew into Dubuque to see us. I thought Taste of Dubuque would be a great event to wind down after a day of travelling. That the kids could get ‘kid food’, like pizza, and the grown ups could get other food.
I had been warned, however, that [...]

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“Green” Dubuque

The mayor is always spouting about how green our city is.  There’s all sorts of little initiatives that they’ve done to make it green, and most seem to be construction related, or dealing with government buildings.
They neglect one of the biggest things that would make a city green.
Public transportation.
Because of school, I REALLY need to [...]

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Daffodil

Daffodil
Originally uploaded by Kibbles

After 9/11, a Dutch bulb company has been donating 500,000 bulbs a year to NYC. As of April 2007, the daffodil has been named the official flower of NYC.
For this reason I hated them.
It was similar to why people hate some lilies. It reminds them of death. I didn’t want [...]

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