I finally took the time to clean out our pet rabbit's pen. For years we've relied on fleece on top of a rubber tarp as a way to keep rabbit mess off the wooden floor and Athena is a rabbit who likes to chew on and tug up fleece. So it's resulted in a pretty annoying mess plus she keeps getting the fleece wrapped around the bars of her pen, into an unmanageable mess.
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bunnyhugger got a low-cut rug cheap from Meijer's and we kind of left it in the pile of stuff to work on someday. Today, during lunch break while working from home, I decided it was time. So I pulled out the fleece --- it'll be shaken on the plants outside, as rabbit droppings are pretty good for plants --- and swept, and swept again, and swept a lot more. When it was finally clean I laid down the new carpet. I was worried it was too large for the area and no, it's about the right size. With a nice little margin.
Our pet rabbit ignored my doing all this, because she's not getting up just for me messing around. She's in love with bunnyhugger and is going to come down when she gets up, thank you. And when bunnyhugger did, my dear bride was thrilled by the look of the nice neat new carpet and perfectly clean area. Our rabbit ran downstairs, hopped out, looked around at this big change to everything, and gave one sound disapproving THUMP!. But after that she did a little exploring, and a nice dramatic leap over a bit of craft paper for her to chew on, and seems to be more or less okay with things. Now. Here's hoping this becomes easier to keep clean.
Now let's close out the Calhoun County Fair. Remember my challenging you to guess when we'd get to bunnies and a Himalaya? Keep watching for the surprise.
The last thing a strawberry sees.
And now on to the rides! Here's the ticket sheet; how many will we have left at the end of the night?
And isn't this a lovely picture of a Himalaya? NO! It is not! Because the Silver Streak here is not a Himalaya, although it is a similar kind of flat ride.
Here's the ride now called 'Remix', that's much like a trabant only running like they didn't know the electricity was 240V here.
Not sure I've ever taken a straight-on view of the Fun Slide before but this angle treats it well.
Here's the kiddie coaster seen from up front where it's clearly just an alligator at prayer.
This is a kiddie ride, with bird and bug cars, that I think was new and that had a style I just liked.
Well, here's the carousel, that's one of the never-miss rides for us.
See? Told you we never miss it.
And here's the carousel in slightly different lighting that makes it look completely different.
End of the night! They're turning off ride lights even as watch.
That bird-and-bug kiddie ride silhouetted against one of the midway games.
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Date: 2026-05-16 04:20 am (UTC)