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.