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I got running late on Tuesday, because the workday and the pinball tournament took up all the time right up to the brink of midnight, so that's why I had to reschedule some of my stuff from the humor blog this week. The lineup as things turned out was:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 17
- Alternatively, This Just Shows Maybe My Bedtime Should Be a Half-Hour Earlier
- Statistics Saturday: Some Local Holiday Traditions
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 7: Junior’s Birthday Round-Up
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 7: Redbeard
- In Which I Admit I’m Running Late Again
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? What’s with the art in The Phantom? September – December 2023
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 18
And now, Gilroy Gardens pictures. Enjoy!
We were almost in time to make this ride cycle. The poor kid, now, I'm not sure what happened but I think he was in the wrong lane.
Looking up into the 'balloons'; you see how plausibly they look like they could be real things.
And after the ride, here's the baskets back on the ground. The balloons seem to alternate between stars and stripes, which makes sense.
This is another of those blind pictures, taken by putting my hand up over a construction fence and hoping for the best. You can see bits of what look like the tiling for a fountain or a pool or something here, hidden away. Also props of some kind?
And this is the fence all that's hidden behind. It's an irregular shape for the fence; the astroturf region itself is roughly a trapezoid.
View of the far end of the astroturf area. There were a couple people lounging at the end and I think that might have been the tail end of an activity. I'm pretty sure there was something scheduled for this spot that we got to after it ended.
Getting back to Timber Twister Coaster for another ride, and another look at the ride sign, which is a pretty darned good one and which matches the snake-themed car.
Hey, did ou know this about sandstone? Or about Romper, the dog who left 'fossil' footprints in the sidewalk?
Here's those footprints we were hearing so much about.
Close-up of a panel of ride information on Timber Twister, posted at the operator's booth.
Good look at the train during a test cycle. It had gone down while we were waiting and came back before we gave up and moved on to something else.
Picture of some of the track of Timber Twister; it does some good twisting around and you see the timber right there.
Trivia: Between 1910 and 1922 homesteaders established claims on 42 percent of the entire area of the state of Montana. About four-fifths of this was unfit for crop agriculture as the colonizers practiced it. Source: The Story of American Railroads, Stewart H Holbrook. (The colonizers were drawn by aggressive railroad promotion which is why it's in this book.)
Currently Reading: Michigan History, November/December 2023. Editor Sarah Hamilton.
