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compelling a walk in the abandoned bluestone quarry
Saturday, March 7 2026
Because Gretchen has been sick, she hasn't been taking Charlotte for a walk. And Charlotte won't go anywhere with me if Gretchen is around. So Charlotte has not had a walk in days. Gretchen suggested I drive her and Neville to the abandoned bluestone quarry off Lorenz Road to compel them to walk, but I didn't want to burn gasoline if I didn't have to (thanks to the ongoing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, gasoline prices were spiking). So I enthusiastically tried to get Charlotte to follow me down the Woodshed Path, but she bailed before even leaving our yard. So I fired up the Forester (there was no telling how much snow would be on Lorenz Road, which is entirely private) and loaded up the dogs.
Lorenz was only plowed as far as the driveway of our friends Laura and Ken, so I parked at the start of their driveway and hiked from there to the quarry. Sombody had been through there with a snow machine, which had tamped down the snow and made it easier to walk on. Later I encountered enormous dog footprints along side human boot prints, evidently from someone living along nearby Reichel Road. I walked the length of the quarry, but beyond that the snow was too deep for easy trudging, so I turned around and trudged back to the Forester.
This evening I finally returned to my ESP8266 work, trying (unsuccessfully, as it happened) to get my I2C bootloader to work on an Atmega168 using some suggestions ChatGPT had given me while in the Caribbean. In parallel with all that, I was nursing a mild hangover (too much dranking last night!) and watching lots of AI-skeptical content on YouTube. (I'm particularly fond of the take of Ed Zitron, and am now thoroughly convinced that the LLM data center build-out has been the largest economic blunder in history.)
I saw this huge dog footprint and wondered who had left it. (A bear footprint is more plantigrade.) Gretchen later told me that someone living along Reichel Road has at least one Great Dane. Click to enlarge.
A thaw puddle along the road to the abandoned quarry. Click to enlarge.
Charlotte approaching the entance the abandoned quarry (visible in the background). Click to enlarge.
Someone made a primitive archway from bucked firewood rounds. Click to enlarge.
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