Barbara and me in our English garden

Things are happening on my humor blog! Want to know what? Without using the RSS feed? Kind of you. Here's the past week's stuff:

• MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 9 of 12)


• MiSTed: Safe Fun for Halloween (Part 3 of 4)


• Statistics Saturday: Some Old-Time Candies


• MiSTed: Safe Fun for Halloween (Part 4 of 4)


• Why I Am Putting Off My Popeye Cartoon Reviews a Bit


• What's Going On In Dick Tracy? What kind of idiot steals a cop car? August - October 2022


• Just Taking a Quick Drive Around Town


• MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 10 of 12)

Now to the Michigan's Adventure pictures from our excellent riding day in August:

The poor tree, stunted by the roller coaster tracks, has tried to send out a new leader, but it's growing up toward the coaster tracks too, so all that growing was wasted. Maybe next time.

And there's some of the cars, plus the exit queue. The ride was designed for continuous flow, cars slowing but not stopping in the station, but the park has decided everything needs to stop for a very long time lest the line get short.

Wall outside the Wolverine Wildcat coaster where, until recently, there were hanging baskets of flowers. You can see the baskets' ghosts there.

And here's the little park we discovered when someone else went in first! Doesn't that look like a space you're not supposed to be in? And yet there's benches there.

See? From deep inside the secret park. Also one of the better-shaded areas of Michigan's Adventure, an area that has more trees than you think but somehow has a lot of direct sunlight beating you down all summer.

Shivering Timbers isn't open? That's weird. (It would open shortly after this picture.)

Trivia: Around $26 billion worth of arms were supplied to the United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease program, roughly double what Britain was able to borrow from its dominions and colonies. Source: Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Niall Ferguson. Ferguson (yeah, I know) calls this about a tenth the total wartime output, but isn't clear about whether that's UK output, US output, total world output, or what.

Currently Reading: Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, Alexandra Lange. Not sure how I feel about a published hardcover book being new enough that it can discuss the pandemic, really.