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bunnyhugger had a great idea about Athena's refusal to take pellets: what if we switched food? Particularly, why not try her on Young Rabbit pellets, which are made around a different sort of hay and have a different taste and that adult rabbits shouldn't be on long-term because it's too fattening? So last night, just a half-hour before the pet store would close, I went over to get a small bag from their bulk dispensers.
Also for Crystal I wanted to get some of their ... I keep forgetting the name of this. Something like Supreme Rat Mix, a mixture of tastier rat food and seeds and pasta and all that rats, and mice, quite enjoy as a treat. Here there was a small holdup in that their bulk bucket was empty, but there was a plastic bin underneath with an index card labelling it as Supreme Rat Mix. I finally flagged down a store employee --- after someone gave the warning that the store was closing in 15 minutes so please bring your purchases to the register --- and he went off and got confirmation that this Supreme Rat Mix was the same as would go in the bin on the shelf, so was fine to take. Turns out, it doesn't have the seeds or other small bits. But it's got the rat food and the dried pasta so Crystal should be happy with that. In hindsight I guess we could have just saved a handful from a box of Annie's Mac and Cheese for her.
But to Athena and her eating. When I got home I emptied her dish back into the Adult Rabbit Food bag, and then gave her a scoop of Young Rabbit Food. This, over the course of six hours, she mostly finished, and so we spared her the Critical Care force-feeding. This morning she had largely finished her evening pellets again, so I got out the bag of Young Rabbit Food, and got the scoop out of the bag of Adult Rabbit Food, and then could not remember whether the scoop of pellets were Young or Adult pellets. Based on smell, I thought they were more likely Adult pellets so back into that bag they went. Or I unfairly mixed some Young pellets into the Adult bag. No way of knowing.
She's not eating this with relish, must say. But she's eating at all, which is the most important thing. bunnyhugger several times tried holding some pellets in her hand and Athena would take those pretty well, which is awfully cute. With luck things will be back to normal soon.
When last we saw pictures we were at Kings Island, on line for Snoopy's Soap Box Racers, a brand-new coaster that year which of course we hadn't ridden yet.
Snoopy's Soap Box Racers, eh? Well, where are the soap boxes?
Oh.
Here's the train coming back to the station for the end of the ride. Each car is matched to a different character, with Snoopy at front and Charlie Brown of course at the back.
On to the other new roller coaster we hadn't been on: Orion. Here's the lift hill seen in the twilight.
Here's the lockers for the ride, and note that the ride pauses for the fireworks, just like Beast does.
Nice moody picture of the ride and, I think, one of the buildings for Flight of Fear behind it in the twilight gloom.
Trivia: The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the first federal drug control, did not criminalize drug use, just requiring that users could only purchase drugs with a prescription from a physician who ``prescribed in good faith'' and ``in pursuit of his professional practice only''. Source: Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America, Peter Adreas. Within a decade the Treasury Department (charged with enforcing what was nominally a tax law) would rule this forbade maintaining drug access to addicts.
Currently Reading: The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs, Stephen B Johnson.
