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Rat Rocks! (Not The Band)*
Walking around PQ recently we’ve noticed that many of the buildings in our area are using artificial rocks for rat control. We’ve always kept a watchful eye on the standard big rubber box used for rat control that you see more often around the city (bottom photo), but these artificial rocks we’d never noticed before […]
Street Elevator Action
You don’t see too many of these street elevators (sidewalk vaults?) in DC, at least not in the kind of numbers that you see them in NY & Chicago. We’ve caught this one outside of Ollie’s Trolley in use a few times for garbage pickups. Presumably most downtown DC buildings have loading docks so these […]
What’s The Price For A Mistake?
Mrs. Columbo and I went out for dinner two nights in a row this week, first to Rosa Mexicano, and the next night at Proof. Overall both meals were very good, but each restaurant had a hiccup with our night out, and each handled it differently. At Rosa, we discovered that one of our wine […]
Ho? Ho! Ho???
Walking around the city last night we noticed that some jokers at the Caucus Room had Dasher & Vixen playing reindeer games in one of the restaurant’s 9th Street windows. Not the most creative holiday window display we’ve seen this year, but to borrow a phrase: we report, you decide.