I'm Gonna Chow Down My Vegetables
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austin_dernWhen we called off the beach trip last weekend we thought, okay but this weekend we should be able to. Not on Saturday, because that was to be a big pinball tournament at MJS's pole barn out near Kalamazoo and those are rare and special events. But Sunday, weather holding up.
The weather did hold up, but our energy didn't. Between the early rising we had to do for the tournament, and the full day spent going around playing sixteen qualifying rounds of pinball plus side stuff, and eating way too much of the potluck dinners, and sticking around to see if JTK would ever lose, we got home late and with not enough stuff done. So with understanding reluctance we called it off again. Maybe next Sunday, which the long range forecast says will be an even warmer day somehow. But we needed today to recover and to do miscellaneous work around the home.
Among those bits: finally getting to the pet store and remembering to find a replacement vegetable bowl for our rabbit. The plastic bowl we'd been using had a plastic frame to hold it onto the cages of her pen --- giving her something to stand up and grab stuff for --- and we kept forgetting to look for replacements. (And, at the risk of sounding defensive, the pet store keeps food dishes in a weird place well away from all the other small animal stuff.) This new one is a ceramic bowl, held in place by metal wires, so it's less likely to break off and even if it does break off, the ceramic bowl has a flat base so it can be used by itself. The plastic bowl had this little hinge that was meant to secure it in the holder and that makes it rest off-level on the floor.
And then yes, there is that whole ``pinball tournament'' thing I let go with just a passing mention. Don't worry. You're going to hear all about that too.
Next in pictures ... we went to Cedar Point on Saturday, the 2nd of November last year. The final day of their operating season which means --- since we also went to Eclipse Day in April --- we got to Cedar Point as early and as late in the year as was possible for 2024. We had a couple reasons to do this and catching the latest possible day was only one of them. Getting an amusement park ride as close as we could to bunnyhugger's birthday was another. But finally ... you'll see.
Establishing shot. The park was tolerably busy which is going to happen for a Saturday with good weather even if it was finally chilly.
Also Sandusky might have been on fire? Not sure. It didn't seem to be a problem later on at least.
Frankenstein outside the Kiddie Kingdom, looking good and grabby.
And here's what we were really there for. The ride operator on the Kiddie Kingdom carousel had told us the week before that they had sold the ride to the Ohio State Fair and the ride would be gone next year. So we had to get back for a last ride just in case it turned out to be true.
The rumor was false; the carousel was still in Kiddie Kingdom this year, and apparently the Ohio State Fair has bought a carousel on its own so Cedar Point won't be losing this to there, at least. Since that knowledge lay in our future we wanted to get last rides on the rabbits particularly.
A warning. The ride will close at 10 pm ... forever? No, turns out.
Trivia: Lake Erie's sea level is only about 541 feet above the Hudson River's, but the (original) path of the Erie Canal required locks to raise and lower boats a total of 661 feet. Source: Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation, Peter L Bernstein.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 73: Loch Mess, Clotland, or, Messy Business in the Loch! Ralph Stein, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
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