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I got my flu and Covid shots this evening --- the pharmacy also volunteered that they could hook me up with the chicken pox vaccination that I need since, again, despite being a child of the 70s and despite my three siblings all getting it, I've never had chicken pox --- and I expect to spend tomorrow being a cranky, aching potato. I'm already feeling it in my arm. So meanwhile please enjoy some Michigan International Speedway photos:
Nutcrackers saluting us for our service. We try to stay humble but, you know.
And now to the song everyone's been waiting for! I was looking forward to seeing if there were any overlap with Crossroads Village's. (We got our best possible photos of that at Christmas 2020, when they had everyone just drive through the village, so go look at those pictures for comparison.)
Very large partridge or very small pear tree? You be the judge.
Two turtle doves and I guess they're splitting a spring of mint?
Now is this a silly way to depict French-ness in hens? Or a good one?
The calling birds were normal enough. I don't know why one has a red musical note while the others have green.
Five rings not at all being sued by the International Olympic Committee! It's a holiday miracle.
Geese a-laying. Here I was able to get a bunch of them lined up for that annular effect.
Swans just spilling out all over the place now.
I did not expect to get so many of the maids a-milking lined up with each other.
The ladies dancing didn't line up nearly so closely at least from my side of the car.
You can tell these are lords a-leaping because of their top hats.
And there's the pipers, as promised. But wait, what's that coming up on the left?
There we are! Twelve drummers in my most approximately crisp of these photos!
Trivia: Amerigo Vespucci, using a conjunction of the Moon with Mars on the 23rd of August, 1499, calculated that the island of Hispaniola was about 82 and a half degrees west of the meridian of Cadiz, Spain. It is in fact about sixty degrees. Source: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Toby Lester.
Currently Reading: Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, Harold McGee.
