I hate to leave

Made it through one more week on my humor blog! And I did it all with such neighbor-gazing content as:

• MiSTed: Safety First (part 15 of 16)


• Oh and Now the Neighbors Have a Woodchuck


• Statistics Saturday: Some Credible Facts About Apollo 11


• 60s Popeye: Seeing Double, another Popeye cartoon, another Popeye


• How Will I Live Without This When the Popeye Project Is Done


• What’s Going On In Alley Oop? What happened with Leonardo da Vinci? May – July 2022


• In Which I Assume There Is a _Columbo_ Prequel Somebody’s Working On


• MiSTed: Safety First (part 16 of 16)

Here's more of the Fairy Tale Festival to enjoy.

Pumpkin creatures hanging out in the corner of the castle.

Meanwhile here's a little fairy village set up on a tree stump.

The pergola, a common site for weddings and a place we might have had our wedding if the Turner-Dodge House had a catering service. (Since we'd have had to provide it ourselves this was too much work.)

And there were a few fairy buildings set up by the pergola, too. I don't know how long the setup was but I hope they kept track of what went where, so it didn't get forgotten in the cleaning-up.

Frances E Willard was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and many water fountains were set up as part of the support for drinking stuff besides alcohol. Unfortunately this fountain wasn't working.

The bubble machine was running out of its soap; I at least got a picture of one of the last tiny bubbles as it floated past my camera. (I had another picture where the bubble's in perfect focus, but it's farther away so makes for a less interesting picture.)

Trivia: On the 10th of July, 1937, ten million dollars --- 300 million francs --- returned to France on the steamship Normandy. (This following currency re-evaluations the paying off of a British loan.) Source: A Low Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930 - 1941, Paul N Hehn. I know it's just how things were done back then but it's still baffling to think of money just steaming around the world like that. On the other hand, that makes more sense than one country ``buying'' foreign currency when it's just changing whether an account's denominated in dollars or pounds or yen or whatever.

Currently Reading: Images of America: Western New York Amusement Parks, Rose Ann Hirsch.