Taliesin Ceiling
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Humpty Dumpty
This guy is at House on the Rock. He was featured on Antique Roadshow and was originally used as a prop to sell diamonds. Today’s big event was a luncheon with Anne and Bill. We all went to Cozy Corners and all had whitefish. This celebratory lunch was in honor of Anne and Bills anniversary. Their treat. We will reciprocate after our anniversary in a couple of days. Tis the season! It was warm when we went out for lunch, but a passing front has cooled things off. After lunch, we drove around the countryside. On a dirt road we came upon a huge hay fly hatch
Organ Stop Carousel
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a la Cart
Let the madness begin. The parking lot was full, but almost all the grocery carts were gone. Such was the situation at Meijers today. Everyone was gearing up for this hot holiday weekend. I snagged one of the few remaining carts and did my shopping. On the way into town, I chased a flock of turkeys up the green tunnel road. That was fun.
Allium Seed Head
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Stand Rock
Henry Hamilton Bennett was a 19th-century photographer who invented a camera with a shutter fast enough to capture stop-motion action. To demonstrate his camera, he asked his 17-year-old son to jump the gap at Stand Rock. Bennett proved he had invented this new feature, because it would have been impossible for his son Ashley to hold that mid-air pose for the minutes that was normally needed at the time to take such a photograph. Subsequently, other people attempted to duplicate his son’s feat, sometime ending in disaster. Park rangers eventually prohibited these jumps. This led to the introduction of dogs, like the below pictured Archie from our boat tour.
On vacation, we switch from everyday problems to vacation problems. In the Dells sage sponsors like Bertha’s Kitty Boutique can be relied upon to help solve those pesky vacation problems. When I don’t know something, I ask CatGPT.
One such vacation problem are the powder post beetles. Shivering succotash, it is evident that one spraying was insufficient to the task, because their frass continues to fall on the upholstery. We were told after the first spraying that the chemical would trigger their activity, as they tried to escape it. I don’t know if one-month of waiting is sufficient or not. That’s a coven issue.