Along with the sunshine there's gotta be a little rain sometime

Time's getting all out of joint again but let me try and make sure I don't miss anything much. A week and a half(?) ago Wednesday bunny_hugger's parents paid us a too-rare visit. The big reason they would visit us, rather than vice-versa, is to get to the garden store on the outskirts of town. They wanted to rush there right away, so they barely sat down and I don't think they even had a snack before we were out again.

The day was cool and overcast and drizzling, which we thought might work for us, as a way to reduce the number of people hanging around. It didn't appreciably, though since these were greenhouses with a lot of open doors and open windows we weren't too worried about catching anything from people who somehow weren't wearing masks. We would end up not looking at annuals, mostly outside in unsheltered regions, but bunny_hugger has been trying to do fewer annuals anyway. Lot of fuss for something you have to re-do every year, you know. But we got enough to add to the yard, and to worry about getting in the ground before they dried out or something.

Driving back saw a couple diversions, one from bunny_hugger's father missing a turn that he didn't understand could be done from either of the two left lanes. Then, the point of that turn, was getting to the bakery down the block to get a dozen sugar cookies which were oh so very good. But then when they got home they didn't stay. The dashboard of their car gave some weird warning about the battery when we were leaving the bakery and her father decided not to risk turning the car off again. They got home safely, at least, and I haven't heard of any further trouble, so I have to guess it was one of those flukes you get with ... three-year-old cars that have like 400 miles on them. We're trying to encourage them to come back and hang out some, but they worry about driving at night and about their dogs being left all alone. Sometime I should drive down there to watch the dogs while they come up and spend the whole day with bunny_hugger.

And my final pictures from Pinball At The Zoo!

Resolving a tie in the final four. Not for first place; that was AJR's all the way. This was for second and third place.

Photographing the winners.

EJO and BIL making off with a Stars. The head (or backbox, if you prefer) was taken off, surely to make it more stable in transport, although this means they'll have to reconnect 115,000 cables to set the game up again. A couple, anyway, but you know how hard cable management is. Modern games often have a hinge so the head can fold down without requiring removal or cable-fussing.

Trivia: By 1905, thirty to forty thousand visitors a year came to Dayton, Ohio, to tour the National Cash Register factory. Source: Before The Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865 - 1956, James W Cortada.

Currently Reading: Women In Space: Following Valentina, David J Shayler, Ian Moule.