Once long ago there was a French carousel-maker named Bayol. Among the animals they made were hares. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger owns one of them. They sometimes mixed these hares --- and cats, and other ``menagerie'' figures --- with horses on their rides. But at least once, they made an all-cats carousel. And at lease once, they made an all-bunnies carousel.
Early this year bunnyhugger found a postcard showing one of these all-bunny carousels, from a French seller. It was but the work of a moment to buy the card and wait for its delivery, after which, among other things, she planned to scan the picture on it at the highest resolution possible, as pictures of this carousel are almost as rare as information about it (including what happened to it and was there more than one all-bunnies merry-go-round). Can you spot the fatal flaw in this plan?
Yes. Whether the problem is the US Postal Service's commitment to fulfilling boss Louis DeJoy's plan to demolish the US Postal Service, or the problem is Customs loathing the transport of goods across national borders, the card never arrived. I am more suspicious of the post office on this point, because this was also a while when bunnyhugger could not get her package of Mrs Grossman stickers-of-the-month, someone on the way apparently deciding to steal the original shipment, and the replacement, and the second replacement.
While I continue to nag the post office to at least look for whoever swiped the card and the postmaster promised these things sometimes turn up, bunnyhugger fumed a long while and then found another copy of the postcard online. This was not in as pristine a condition --- the card was tinted, and partially painted --- but, with several months of Mrs Grossman stickers coming through fine, she gave it a try.
And just as we were starting to wonder if the Post Office or Customs had stolen this one too, it arrived! In good shape, too. The picture has writing on it, something that based on the message of the postcard appears to be naming people in the card-writer's family (or friends). The text, reasonably but a little unluckily, doesn't have anything to do with the carousel. The start of it is apologizing for not writing back sooner even though they've had plenty of time. You know how that is.
There may be a better bunny-carousel postcard out there, or even better, a proper picture of one. But for now, there's at least this, secure in the hands of someone who knows what it is.
And now? The last day we were in Fort Wayne. We only stuck around until mid-afternoon, but still, some fun stuff happened there. Let's watch.
bunnyhugger getting into the place for the women's weekly tournament, which would have considerably more people than the previous weekend but which she would not win. Also, the U-Haul was still there but had no new pinball machines to deliver, so far as I saw.
Sign warning that the back row was closed off for the Women's World Championship.
Ah, but from here you can see the Road Show and its custom plungers that here ... well, you just see the construction helmets, but there's Red and Ted there, I promise.
The 1970s Kiss pinball has just the plunger head you'd expect.
The Stern Godzilla meanwhile has a plunger that ... I guess is an egg? Maybe a Mothra egg? Or something? I don't know the Godzilla canon, sorry.
Strikes and Spares here gets a custom plunger, a big disc with a couple bowling pins in the air.
Trivia: Between 1430 and 1436, when the English occupied Paris, there were at most two hundred English soldiers in the city. Source: Gold and Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages, Jean Favier. Paris's population had likely fallen below 80,000 at the time, with some sources claiming it to be under 50,000. Still, not much of an occupying force.
Currently Reading: The Emerald City of Oz, L Frank Baum. Marvel Comics adaptation by Eric Shanower, Skottie Young. I forgot Emerald City of Oz was the one with Bunnybury and I could make bunnyhugger read the story of the saddest king other than Blozo.
