A Little Leaping Lemur Who Liked to Bounce and Play

[austin_dern]

This time around, my humor blog spread out its topics and wasn't entirely about comic strips. Here's what it was:

• MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 10: Playing Leap-Frog
• Trusting This Is Not the Thing That Will Make You Think Worse of Me
• Statistics Saturday: Some Nursery Rhyme Characters You Can't Say From Text Are Eggs
• Robert Benchley: What --- No Budapest?
• And Yet I Post This on the Internet, How Interesting
• What's Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? It's nothing, right? July - October 2025.
• As the Rain Gets Just Cold and Heavy Enough to Feel Colder and Heavier Than It Is
• MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 11: The Tooth Puller

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Next big thing we got to in December was the Potter Park Zoo and its Wonderland of Lights. Let's look at hopefully the better pictures:

First, in the gift store, some soccer ball cheetahs that I feel like I've seen in the object-transformation corners of FurAffinity.

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Here, people look over the first of several portals to other worlds.

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Over by the farmyard animals location they set up a little gift shop. We got hot chocolate there this time, breaking our tradition of getting hot chocolate at the snack stand.

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The rare Christmas Tree not decorated by a local dentist group.

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Just a nice look at the snowy ground an the bare trees and the cloud-filled sky.

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And now we venture into the Big Cats house, which also has other mammals.

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Like here, I want to say it's a shrew?

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Lemur is disgusted that I'm being so vague about this.

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The bench that's long outlasted Theio's Restaurant now. Also, here's where the penny press machine is. I don't know when's the last time we saw it working.

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The nice lighting arrangements near the refreshments stand. For such a long time I assumed this was a pond because usually we saw it after some snow had melted and refrozen into an ice sheet.

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Finally, back on track with a dentist-supported tree.

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The footprints sure suggest people gathering for specific picture purposes here.

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Trivia: At 1:30 in the afternoon, the 24th of October, 1907, J P Morgan badgered $27 million out of local bank presidents to form a relief fund for stock brokers facing the two-day-old panic, in order to keep the stock exchange open to its scheduled hour of 3 pm. Source: The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, H W Brands. This, and a sweetheart deal to sell New York City bonds, almost certainly prevented a string of bank closures that would have set off another depression, but it was also done by one guy strongarming Finance to his will.

Currently Reading: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, Adam Higginbotham.