Our sweet old man.
Dog Sports
Yesterday we took Riley to a short class on “scent training” or something like that.
It involved me rubbing a mixture of smelly treats on my shoes, shuffling across the grass to create a trail and periodically dropping treats, and then my wife following him on his loose leash while he followed the trail to the end, at which point he celebrated with her.
By the end of the hour Riley was really getting it, and it was super cute and heartwarming to see my wife and our dog celebrating is success!
Very Alva?
The previous post, in which I do an end-over to Frontside Fakie 360 — I posted that video on the OldSkaters reddit. Someone commented “Very Alva!”
This was very pleasing to me.
That is all.
A trick
My new friend Noah, who I met at StupidFest this year, sent me this video clip of me doing that same end-over to frontside fakie 360 at Zombie Baby ditch. Always fun to have stuff like this just materialize. I like this view – it shows the ditch really well.
Upcoming Blog Anniversary
10/6/2026 will be the 20th anniversary of the first posting on this blog. That is crazy. Is it turning out that this blog is actually my life’s work?