Afraid that my workday got eaten up by problems that should not have existed with scripts that were running fine last time anyone checked. So instead enjoy a double dose pf pictures as I close out the Festival of those Forks:
Heart Flip loaded up and ready to go, although it sure seemed like it took forever to load given that it's a carnival ride and those usually need like four seconds. You see why we looked at the kids fitting in these seats and thought it unlikely we'd be able to fit ourselves.
Here's the Twister, a swings ride that does not use the same base as the Heart Flip but it's understandable you might make that mistake.
The really folk art-y side of the Gladiators fun house. It doesn't look as polished as we saw at the Calhoun County Fair.
The Spaceships With Guns ride also had these home-painted characters on it, here with a dragon that looks charmingly freehanded.
This Spaceship With Gun has a clown on it, and naturally, the Marines logo, because I guess the carnival wants to pick a fight?
Here's a boats ride that I think was always in the process of being fiddled with and not actually running.
Cute inflatable giant slide here. In the middle slide you can see a frantic argument about who's going the wrong way.
Though we didn't buy tickets (everything was too small for us) I did peek in the ticket booth and saw this certificate that was for two and a half weeks, two and a half years before this photo was taken. So, huh?
But here's the front of the tickets booth, for context.
Quick look around the carnival before we head out.
And a last view as we go walking back to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's parents' home.
Along the way we passed that house that was smashed by the fallen tree, that because of zoning problems (it extends over the river) can't exactly be fixed or ... anything. They've at least got to the point of sawing off the jagged pieces of smashed back room and have formed a Tyvek scab over the wound.
Trivia: United States servicemen during World War II ate on average 234 pounds of food per year. The civilian had about 140 pounds per year. Source: The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food, Lizzie Collingham.
Currently Reading: Michigan History, May/June 2024, Editor Katlyne Danko.
