Photo by PoPville flickr user Beau Finley
Every few years the unthinkable happens and haunts my days and nights. I wish I were exaggerating. I wish it wasn’t true. I wish, I wish, I wish…
Alas, thanks (for lack of a better word) to Lara for passing on Amanda Becker’s Nightmare:
“OKAY QUARANTINE IS OVER I WENT TO USE THE BATHROOM AND A RAT HAD SWUM UP MY TOILET I THOUGHT THIS WAS DC URBAN LEGEND AND NOW I NEED TO MOVE.” (more…)
Thanks to Paul for sending the random chandelier hanging in Dupont Circle: “Do you have any idea how long this has been up?”
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Thanks to Rebecca for sending the above: “When you’re missing baseball…”
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Thanks to Casey for sending today’s ‘might as well wear ’em if you got ’em” mask’ from 16th Street, NW.
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On Satruday the Mayor’s Office announced:
“Mayor Bowser announced that starting this week, the National Park Service (NPS) and the United States Park Police (USPP) will close Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and roads in Anacostia Park and Fort Dupont Park to vehicle traffic so that residents can access these roads for essential exercise. (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user Miki Jourdan
“Dear PoPville,
Looking for advice on pot smoke from my neighbor’s rowhouse getting into mine. My kids and I are obviously home and so are the neighbors. I mentioned to them that I really smell their pot, and while they were polite, they basically stated they planned to smoke at home everyday while they, too, are at home. It’s their way of coping. They asked it it’s better if they smoke outside, but that comes in our house too. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I live in a U-shaped apartment complex where, if I look out my window, I have some great views directly into my neighbors apartments. Now that everyone is working from home, some of my neighbors have taken an interest in my cat, Pico, and we’ve been communicating about her through signs posted in our windows.” (more…)
via Smithsonian’s National Zoo
“Echo gave birth to four cubs on April 8, 2020!
This camera is the same one that keepers are watching right now as they monitor the new mom Echo and her cubs. Stay tuned to the Cheetah Cub Cam streaming live from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, for all the cheetah cub action.” (more…)
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Thanks to Maurice for sending the great shot above: “A new suit for our astronaut in SE.”
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“My mom’s 16 year old toy poodle got out of the gate and across the street and fell down the sewer drain (at Crittenden & Queens Chapel NE). Prince the poodle is elderly, blind, and deaf. My mom called me in a panic at 4:00, saying that our neighbor had seen Prince fall. 311 dispatched Humane Rescue Alliance, and the DC fire department later arrived to try to open every man hole near where Prince was last seen. After 2 hours I thought we would call it. But the DC humane rescue did not give up!
DC water opened the cemented man hole covers and went atleast a 1/2 mile down the street trying to open every man hole cover. When we were ready to give up (again), DC water removed the last cover and DC humane society fearlessly went into the hole and found Prince!!
We were so impressed with how compassionate, relentless and professional the humane rescue staff were and can not thank them enough!! In this time of uncertainty, it’s great to know that people still really care and that we haven’t given up on each other, or our pets!!”
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