I think I've mentioned that our pet mouse doesn't build nests so much as lairs. Well, after the last time ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger cleaned her cage she didn't rebuild her volcano-like mound of litter. Instead she retreated to the Angry Dome, a small elevated dome reached by a vertical tube, and we worried that all her building ambition had been destroyed along with her previous lair.
It wasn't, although she apparently took a while to find the rebuilding energy again. After a week or so she started gathering the litter from around her cage into one corner, and it's kept on getting bigger and bigger. Now it's back to the full mountainous lair, enough litter that she could walk on a slope from the cage floor up to the plastic shelf hanging four inches up. And she keeps finding more to move up; there's a small hill of litter forming atop of the shelf, too. She's also very happy that we've tossed in so many toilet paper tubes as she's got a lot of concealed subways to get around places.
Also, she's had a side project. We had gotten this hanging stick of chewable treats and finally remembered to hang it in her cage. She loved this immediately; we could count most any time we wanted on seeing her at it, standing up, showing her fluffy white belly for all to see, as she chewed at the lower-hanging pieces. And the wood, which she weirdly enjoys eating. And then as she ate the lower-hanging treats, standing up on her tip-toes. And when that was gone, hanging from the bars of her cage so she could get at it, sometimes with just a single front- and hind-paw holding her in place.
She's finally finished the treats on the stick, but she still enjoys eating the stick so that's something. And I saw yesterday morning she's started dragging the stick from where we hung it --- not too near her lair, so she could have the challenge of climbing up to get it --- over to her lair. I don't know what she's planning to do with it but I'm eager to discover her plans.
And now? More fireworks photos that I swear aren't all the same picture as every year!
Now here's some fun, two fireworks going off and the view in bunnyhugger's camera.
I am amazed I held the camera steady long enough to get both the fireworks trails and the clouds illuminated by what was left of the setting sun.
This doesn't look like much but I like the faint, subtle streaks of color from it.
Now we're getting back to your normal fireworks photo. I think this is with the fireworks mode so the shutter was open a long while.
Are we near the Grand Finale yet?
There's the Grand Finale.
Trivia: The Buffalo (New York) Municipal Airport, built in 1927, marked a departure from most (American) airport terminal design of the time: the building had a crisscrossing scissors-style floor plan, with five separate entrances, and a twenty-by-twenty foot waiting room. The design evolved from the terminal's placement at the intersection of two runways, which was hoped would eliminiate excessive taxiing and provide air traffic control with a good central point from which to work. Source: Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Alastair Gordon.
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