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While we were burying Crystal's body we figured we could probably turn off the pond heater, what with it being 72 Fahrenheit. We went to turn on the pond pump, in fact, and were annoyed that it never started pumping water. We're confident that the power point is all right --- the plug on the end has a light, and we were able to get the pond spitter's pump to go --- so the question is now whether the main pump has gone bad, or whether the main pump has got the hose up to the top of the pond blocked. Either is annoying and either was too annoying for us to do Sunday night, so that's going to wait until we don't know just when. Probably this coming Sunday, since we're booked Saturday.
And then the Saturday of our big amusement park trip last year we planned just to drive home from Hershey, maybe stopping at Cedar Point for a break. But a stop for lunch and gas turned out to be in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, a short distance from Idlewild Park and, you know what? We're doing it. We're making another park trip and you're going to see it.
We got the one spot left in Parking Lot A! We have never seen parking lots B, C, or D.
Part of Idlewild is the Story Book Forest, long ago a separate attraction and now part of the gate price.
Here's the entrance trail. Inside the book is a small house where you can chat with Mother Goose.
The Book's been repainted since our last visit.
I hadn't noticed the Frog Prince before but here he is now.
And that's what the Big Book looks like from the other side. You can see a person talking with the obscured Mother Goose inside.
Here's another entrance to the Story Book Forest.
Little Miss Muffet and a spider. There are a lot of static displays of moments from fairy tales and nursery rhymes and also, for some reason, Huckleberry Finn.
Here's a chair for giants which would be more interesting if we'd got a picture of one of us on it. Sorry. Next time.
Down here's the Crooked Man (seated, with crooked ruler) and past him his Crooked House.
Behind the Crooked House you can see the non-actor Crooked Man statue.
The furnishings inside the Crooked House are all like this. Yes, there's a Crooked Mouse around somewhere but I think I don't have that photo.
Trivia: The ``phantom circuit'', an electrical hookup allowing three telephone conversations to be conducted on two lines, was first demonstrated in 1883; it was first put into practice in 1910 with cable-born phantom circuits carrying phone calls between Boston and Neponset, Massachusetts. Source: Telephone: The First Hundred Years, John Brooks.
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Date: 2026-04-16 12:34 am (UTC)It’s actually kind of nice to see a happy, smiling clown.