Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update, Brief Interlude
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ There was a lot of noise all week coming from the dam removal project on the other…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update, Mostly Done With One Section
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ In case you haven't done it, you might want to download this pdf of the construction plans…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update, So That’s What all the Noise Was
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ If there's a benefit to sitting around waiting to be called back to work, it's being around…
Shooting Out Street Lights
The other day at 9 PM I stepped out on my front porch to smoke the last cheap cigar of the day. Earlier in the day I spent a couple…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update, Moving Right Along
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ With the short week due to the New Year on Tuesday, it's only been three days since…
Blackberry Creek Dam Removal Update
Better Late than Never
To play catch up, you can read the past progress reports here. ____________ One of my goals for 2012 was to put up weekly updates on the removal of the…
Illinois Gun Control Legislation in Progress
When I woke up this morning the last thing I really felt like thinking about was gun control. Being a gun owner, I had been dwelling on it enough ever…
Bald Eagles in Yorkville Again
In the 1960's I had already assumed I would never see a bald eagle in the wild. I assumed that if I ever made it to my mid 50's, they…
Swimming upstream faster than the current… (part 1)
Over the last couple of days, Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Marc Miller has sent out a couple of email that reads like a State of the Union address…