I apologize for preempting both my Halloweekends trip report and the new-bunny trip report but there's even more breaking news to get to.

At the end of last Sunday, the end of our Halloweekends trip, we were getting a ride on the Kiddy Kingdom Carousel. The ride operator spotted us --- as the two unaccompanied adults lingering around the ( Read more... )

Sunday we made our second amusement park trip of the Halloween season, and our first to Cedar Point. We hoped for our usual sort of six-hour Sunday trip --- bunny_hugger had Monday off for reasons of academic calendars but I did not (and won't have this coming Monday off either) --- but ended up at the park about a half-hour late. The construction zone that ( Read more... )

Once long ago there was a French carousel-maker named Bayol. Among the animals they made were hares. bunny_hugger owns one of them. They sometimes mixed these hares --- and cats, and other ``menagerie'' figures --- with horses on their rides. But at least once, they made an all-cats carousel. And at lease once, they made an all-bunnies carousel.

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So I'm all caught up! Enjoy then a double dose of pictures. Also don't worry, because I'm going to have fresh stuff to report on starting tomorrow. Meanwhile, please enjoy some Crossroads Village photography.

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Getting to Cass County, Indiana, isn't very different from getting to Indiana Beach to start. Basically drive down I-69 and turn right at Fort Wayne. The last ten miles are a maze of neighborhood roads in Logansport; while the Cass County Carousel is in a public park it's got all the appearance of a neighborhood park that happens to be cooler ( Read more... )

Our next noteworthy event was our anniversary, 12th of its kind. We had to decide what to do for it. I had a clever idea, which disappointed bunny_hugger.

It comes to carousels. In Cass County, Indiana --- not quite at Indiana Beach, but nearby from our perspective in mid-Michigan --- is an antique Dentzel carousel. A Gustav Dentzel carousel, not one ( Read more... )

Another regular week in my humor blog, so, you know, miscellaneous little bits and discoveries of curious pop culture items. Including a vintage 1947 comic book page that's a little weird. I bet you'll like at least one of these:

• MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 15
• In Which I Learn Something That Makes Me Go, ‘Huh'
• Statistics Saturday: Backyard ( Read more... )

With today's pictures we wrap up that trip to Michigan's Adventure. You'll never guess what's coming up with tomorrow's photo dump!

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Sorry, I spent the whole day cleaning stuff out for the big floor job this week, and plus it's Sunday and I always just do photographs for that anyway. So here goes, from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk:

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When bunny_hugger's carousel rabbit arrived it was with a terrible discovery. The rabbit's left ear was broken off in transit. It was a clean break, along what looks like the original line where the carved head and the carved ear-tip met, but it was terrible to see.

bunny_hugger asked for advice, since you can't just expect to find a carousel restoration expert in ( Read more... )