We try to get to Crossroads Village between Christmas and New Year's, and that left us with the choice whether to go Friday or Sunday. Friday we'd have to leave after work, losing us at minimum an hour and a half of time there; the village closes at 9 pm like it or not. Sunday we could have got there at the village's 4 pm opening, but as it was ( Read more... )

I went outside this evening to clean my car (you wouldn't believe how much junk was in there from one Michigan's Adventure and one Cedar Point trip) and what do you know, I opened the side door to startle a juvenile opossum! They were just outside the door, this lovely grey body maybe eight inches long, and after I apologized they scurried off to ( Read more... )

As I'm caught up on events again, not much to do but share my recap of what's going on in Gasoline Alley (it's a lot of cat stuff) and then show pictures from Crossroads Village, from our visit late last year:

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Last weekend would have been an outstanding time to visit Cedar Point, as the ``bonus weekend'' between the Labor Day end-of-daily-park-operations and the start of Halloweekends usually sees a crowd measured in the dozens. So it was a week ago, we're told, but work deadlines wouldn't let bunny_hugger take the time for it and I wouldn't go by myself like that ( Read more... )

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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Continuing on ``things that happened today'', or at least this week. Tuesday was the Lansing pinball league where, not bragging, I had an awesome night, playing way above average. Lansing league we have everyone play the same set of games, with your standings based on how many people whose score you beat on that game. But owing to the size of ( Read more... )

To give an idea how stable things have been lately: I'm writing up something that happened today, as in, not twelve hours before this publishes.

Last year (admittedly more than twelve hours ago) our attempt to get a leaky outdoor faucet fixed was foiled by the bad shape of our interior plumbing. The plumber recommended replacing all our ( Read more... )

On my humor blog this week I considered whether leaning into clickbait was a good move for me, and then I did some nonsense with Heathcliff and calendars. Read on, in case you missed it:

• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 4
• Statistics August: What Area Code 661 Could Do For Me
• Statistics Saturday: Whether _Heathcliff_ Strips for the 16th of ( Read more... )

Labor Day, now, we did our more-or-less traditional visit to Michigan's Adventure for closing day. This is one more tradition mucked up by the ongoing pandemic, as they used to run Labor Day until just minutes past sunset giving us a few moments at the park in darkness. And they used to be open the weekend after Labor Day too. But, rather than ( Read more... )

Our last Christmas thing for the calendar year 2023 was going to Crossroads Village, just outside Flint. We'd have liked to have gone to the Lake Victoria Christmas House, but December was so warm, and rainy, that it was pretty much nothing but GFCI interruptions and the homeowner gave up on the project before we could get there.

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