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bunnyhugger competed in the Women's North American Championship Series, the inaugural US-and-Canada women's pinball championship, down in Fort Wayne, and she did quite well! She won her first round, and her second, and got into the Round of Sixteen That Would Be Sweet Except That Probably Violates Some Trademark. Sadly, she didn't advance past that, although she did take her opponent --- and the tournament's ultimate winner --- to six games in their best-of-seven match.
Then last night, she played a separate women's tournament with 57 competitors. Many of those were people from the North American Championship Series, or who were there early for the Women's World Championship. The Women's World Championship invites people from a separate list, not directly connected to theNorth American Championship. (It happens the ultimate NACS winner was in the Women's World Championship.) In this, too, she did quite well, finishing twelfth, that is, just out of the top quintile by a rounding margin.
This morning was the venue's usual weekly women's tournament and she attended. More on the good parts of this later, when I have time; for now, please enjoy --- if Livejournal's servers are going to behave, which, who knows? --- pictures from the Jackson County Fair.
Did I saw a shop? You mean did I see a shop, see? I knew you saw.
Ooooh, wait a minute. You mean a shop of saws? Well, that makes sense then.
Meanwhile over here in the toy shop there's miscellaneous stuff to induce nostalgia in people like me for toys I didn't actually ever have, but I had things like this.
The blue ribbon-winning Return of the Jedi pillowcase baffles me because it is not a toy.
Off in an alcove was a bunch of stuff honoring Bea Farber, some big figure in harness racing, a sport that died off in Michigan in the past couple decades. But we were fascinated to learn of this thing that wasn't there anymore, and what are we going to do with blocks of this much text, not read it?
Magazines and programs from the glory days of harness racing in Michigan.
Finally, a competition I understand: people's miniature farm spreads. The lower left corner is threatening to turn into a model county fair.
Inside the exhibition hall is this Blacksmith's shop, and you can see where people have provided all the equipment one might hope to find in one.
Another exhibition space and as you see, it's at the corner of Concord and Pulaski. Both are municipalities in Jackson County. Concord is even a village, one of a dwindling number of that organization form. (Jackson County happens to share with Lenawee County the village of Cement City, which sounds like some kind of prank.)
And inside you see the nice glassware that looks like it's too precarious for the cakes or whatever you would want to put on them.
Depression Glass, like you see on the left here, is a technical term of art, meaning things you might use as glassware while reading Funky Winkerbean.
A-ha! Now we've finally found what brought us here besides Adam Radatz. It's the photography section, including bunnyhugger's entries. We'll just find out how she did ...
Trivia: Per the recommendations of the Symbolic Activities Committee, the Apollo 11 lunar lander's leg had a package including fifty small United States state flags, a United Nations flag, and small flags for every member state of the United Nations. A story about the Ghanaian flag taken the Moon made the front pages in Accra. Source: Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo, Tasel Muir-Harmony.
Lost Popeye Volume 36: Boogerman, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
