Went to Ace Hardware again, picking up some pea gravel for the little pit beside the driveway, as well as some storage bins because we have so much storage we need, and little metal tabs with 5mm-diameter posts to fit into predrilled holes, like it turns out our kitchen cabinet has, and some other stuff. While looking for the tabs I saw a guy there, looking for an annular ring (I don't know the hardware word), who had an albino rat on his shoulder. The rat's name is Snowball and the guy told me the rat was not even a year old. Also that a lot of stores are not cool with bringing a pet rat in. It was neat to see and now I know the Ace nearby is cool with bringing pet rats in on your shoulder. Or didn't want to start an argument about it, anyway.
Back home, I discovered our holes are quarter-inch diameter, not 5mm, so I had to go back and make a quick exchange. But that was the end of my needed trips to Ace for a while. That while is until Monday when I'll have to go back for something that I just assumed was sold two in a pack because the pack had the product name with the number 2 on the line underneath. Teaches me to assume a label might try to make it easy to understand what the contents are.
With the correct-size posts I could establish that I can't really put the shelf back in the same position. There's plastic bits of two old tabs that broke off in their holes, and they'll need to be drilled out and I didn't feel up to that this time. So the shelf is now one post higher, about two inches higher, making the middle shelf almost comically small. But since all that normally holds are saucers and a couple of teacups that are still, in stacks of two, small enough to fit it's not that bad a fit. Might yet try and drill out the old holes, if I can work up the energy to deal with the electric drill. More on this as it comes to pass.
And now we come to the end of the Ionia Free Fair. Please enjoy a last look at things.
More art on the outside of the Mirror Maze. It's a shame you don't get this stuff on the side of vans anymore.
The Himalaya along with the Macomb County Golden O.
And now at last, the Ferris wheel! Your basic travelling model, probably a Herschel or equivalent.
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bunnyhugger getting on for her ride; I don't think we were the last riders for the night but we were close.
A nice portrait shot of the swings ride in motion. Er, sorry, the Wellenflug in action.
One of the carnival games, the Ferris wheel, and the merry-go-round seen near the end of the night.
And oh, there, they've closed up the carousel, just like that.
Wellenflug put to bed for the night as well, and staff starting to go around making sure stuff is cleaned up.
The Midway entrance sign was the last thing lit up, giving everyone something to aim for before walking out into the parking lot or the water.
Trivia: Ionia County, established in 1831, was named for the ancient Greek province. A party of 63 colonists from Herkimer County, New York, led by Samuel Dexter settled it in 1833. Source: Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More Than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities, Water Romig.
Currently Reading: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, Silvia Ferrara.
