What's on my humor blog this week? No more of those comparisons, which is a shame, as they're so much fun to write. Instead, there's eclipse talk, comic strip talk, and of course, serving the Lord with Arthur Godfrey. Oh, I could probably have made a The Lord Your Godfrey joke there somehow, if only I'd thought of it.
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 1
- Statistics March: People Want Me To Explain Why The Comics Look Weird
- Statistics Saturday: Things You Should Know For The Solar Eclipse
- I Am Also Curious About the Kids Serving the Lord by Getting a Pressure Cooker
- Would the Person From Area Code 661 Who Tried to Call Me Please Exist?
- The Eclipse Has Made Me Late With _Mark Trail_ but I Think It's Worth It
- What's Going On In Mark Trail? Why is Diana Daggers in this story? January - April 2024
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 2
And in pictures ... what follows the Jackson County Fair? Going to the Fair the day after it closed, to pick up ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's pictures and get some pictures of the place being packed up. Here's what that looked like, if it shows at all, which depends entirely on LiveJournal's decision to have their photo gallery servers actually serve photos:
Back in the exhibition hall. They've turned off the 'waterfall' coming down this building and are letting the river dry up, but the pond area is still wet.
Big line for people picking up their photos! It might have gone quicker if they let everyone grab their own, but that would also destroy any organization and make it easy to lose pieces. Instead they had one or two volunteers going back through a stack that you'd think would be easy to pick from --- there's no sense putting them in anything but alphabetical order, right? --- but still took time.
I guess the blacksmith shop is always there, fake horse and all, but the accoutrements are gone away.
Someone hasn't picked up their blue-ribbon-winning model farm yet.
The bakery exhibits were pretty well cleaned out, and I notice the snack bar was closed too. These may be connected.
Last couple of vegetables being cleaned up too, here.
Here's what the 'river' looks like when it's not being continually fed water.
Volunteers (I think) cleaning things up after another area had returned its exhibits.
And here's that paper-eating lion packed up, ready to be taken to the next town.
Elephants on parade! Well, on the trailer bed, anyway, there to delight some kids who are otherwise extremely bored on their car trip.
This is not at the fairgrounds but I passed it while driving to and from, and had to get a picture. What drew my eye first, the extant pay phone booth or the Yogi Bear ripoff?
Well, here's what first caught my eye, when I was driving up. Wonder where they got the Yogi figure from. It seems like it might be fiberglass or something? There's a mould lip around it.
Trivia: By the time of its launch as STS-1 in April 1981, the space shuttle Columbia had spent 750 days at Cape Canaveral: 610 in the Orbiter Processing Facility, 35 in the Vehicle Assembly Building, and 105 days on pad 39-A. Source: NASA's First Space Shuttle Astronaut Selection: Redefining the Right Stuff, David J Shayler, Colin Burgess.
