So here's just the sort of thing we needed. After having got back to eating pellets reliably and with good appetite Athena went back off pellets today. She's still eating vegetables well, and hay well as far as we can determine. It's hard to be sure given how disorganized hay always is, at least not without doing an awful lot of cleaning first. But she's eating it. She's also chewing up cardboard like that was candy so ...
We are stumped and annoyed. Being off her food after a gastrointestinal episode makes sense, and even having a relapse sort of seems to make sense. But we've now had her examined a couple times and found she seems to be in fine health; the only physical thing that might have been wrong, her molars growing out, we've dealt with by having them ground down. It's like she just decides sometimes she's not going to eat pellets period.
This would be a mild annoyance except we're hoping to leave Athena with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's parents soon and they will not be happy with a rabbit who's not eating pellets. Or worse who's sometimes eating pellets and sometimes refusing them.
If I didn't know better I'd think she was being stubborn because I set up barricades that kept her out from underneath the sofa last night. But she couldn't be planning a revenge that complicated, right? ... Right?
Thursday we had to drive home. But, disappointed that we hadn't ridden Bat or Backlot Stunt Coaster, or Banshee but understanding it would probably still be closed for excellent reasons, and thinking we hadn't really got anything from the gift shop, we stopped in for what we swore would be just a few hours and, to our surprise, was. Pictures so you know it happened:
We got a good parking spot, fairly near the big sign! I don't know what the trouble somene was having that got the cops on them.
But you can see from where we were down to the Eiffel Tower and, to the left of it, Orion. Note you can see we're packed for home since my dirty laundry is in the trunk.
The stately Kings Island Theater, which we never did get around to seeing anything in. I like the 70s typeface (Friz Quadrata) used for the lettering on the building.
Sol Spin, seen here spinning. It's the same kind of ride Kennywood has, although with different colors.
Here's Banshee, still closed for the investigation and possibly cleanup of the death the night before.
Station and lift hill for Banshee. It has that nice trick of doing a loop around the lift hill.
Trivia: In 1661 England's King Charles II ordered Massachusetts to hang no more Quakers merely for their religious dissent. Source: Rhode Island: A History, William G McLoughlin. (Four had been hung since 1658, when the colony ordered the death penalty for Quakers who entered the colony a third time. More were given lesser punishments.)
Currently Reading: Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside-Down, Editor Tom Standage.
PS: What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Who's writing The Phantom now? December 2024 - March 2025 is my comics recap for this week.
