And I Have Changed, Oh, but You, You Remain Ageless

[austin_dern]

Crystal died sometime today. bunnyhugger found her in the evening, when it was time to give her medicine, curled up inside the little wooden mouse house. It looked like she just stopped, one moment, and that was the end of a sweet little white mouse. It's fortunate her decline wasn't harder, or longer, or worse.

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I don't know, have some Hershey Park photos I captioned before finding this mouse news out.

So ... ZooAmerica. Technically a separate attraction, but buying a Hershey Park admission buys you admission there too. So we took some time from the amusement park for that.

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We got a hand stamp! Well, a wrist stamp. You can already see it sweating off of me.

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The bridge over there is happy to greet you with animal puns.

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That's the bridge back to the park, in case you wondered how to get back.

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Up first, the Reptile House. Do you see a reptile in there?

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Not sure why birds get in the reptile house but you know, ``reptile'' doesn't really have a taxonomically coherent definition and I think ``bird'' is pretty shaky too.

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Venus fly traps! You know, just like fascinated you in second grade but you never actually saw because they grow naturally in like one-tenth of an acre of North Carolina and the second they're taken out of that environment they die and people keep plundering them because who doesn't want a plant that eats insects?

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Sign telling us why we aren't seeing skunks and say, have flower names become the default idea for naming skunks? Is this Bambi influence?

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Some animals of the southwestern United States here. Pretty sure the green round thing on the left isn't an animal though.

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Tell me honestly: would having a heat lamp and a craggly stone to lie on fix you?

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The big enclosure plus a historical photo of the same enclosure but from the 30s, where it looks ... surprisingly similar, really.

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Oh, and then what might be over here, in the southwestern desert after dark?

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Trivia: Apollo 8's S-IVB booster was, after translunar injection, sent into a solar orbit, with apehelion of 79.770 million nautical miles, perihelion of 74.490 million nautical miles, inclination of 23.47 degrees, and a period of 340.8 days. Source: Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 88: Pappy the Beatnick!, Bud Sagendorf. Editor Stephanie Noelle. Yeah, we've finally reached 1959 and I don't know what Noelle is going to do when it reaches one of the select stories that King Features reprints in the endless Popeye reruns it has on the web and theoretically to newspapers, if any newspapers still run Popeye.

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[armiphlage]

*hugs hugs hugs*

[austin_dern]

Thank you.