Just some Weeds 'n Water
Happy Tuesday. Link up is open.
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Peabea
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Fall Weed (thistle)
I did not realize that I would be away last week to do Pictorial Tuesday is why there was no post with link up. I had my eye surgery (which has gone awesomely, and I'm so glad it's over with), and then with the holiday etc., I wasn't around to do the post. But, I'm back this week. Yay!!
The sock knitting is coming along, but I'm slow. Mostly because I forget to pick it up and work on them. lol
These are on 9 inch circulars.
These are started on 5 DPN needles.
On the first ones on the 9 inch circulars, I am at the point of beginning the heel turn, I think. I'm thinking I have enough of the top of the sock done. I have done a heel turn before, but that is what tripped me up the last time, and I messed up and just pulled everything off needles and started over.
Oh well, gives me something to do and for my mind to keep thinking. What all have you guys been doing? I did go to the local Popcorn Festival to hear my nephew play. His band was chosen to be on the main stage, which is an honor for our town festival. Supposedly, we are the biggest producers of popcorn.
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Peabea Scribbles
If I had the patience, and more time to cultivate, I'd dig some up and try planting them as strawberry plants and see how they do. They were here last year too.
Before long it'll be this time of year. Happy September to all. Hoping the month goes great for everyone.
(I have a second surgery tomorrow so I'm posting this on Monday. Should be able to see better again as the cataracts will all be gone. Yay!) Kids now can't take my keys away. hahahaha j/k they weren't talking that yet anyway. :) This mama loves to be on the go!!
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Peabea
A popular lake about an hour away from where I live. When I was very young, it was also an amusement park, and I remember the roller-coaster that went out on the water as well as other rides. I guess there use to be a popular dance hall there back in the day also. My sisters and I were very young when the family took us there. In the 90's and early 2000, my hubby and I had a campsite there and was there usually most weekends with the boat docked there also. Most remembrances of the amusement park are long gone, but the grand kids loved (well me too lol) going to McDonalds on the boat and docking up to eat. It is a fun place, and a very busy place today with the boating and camping. Every 4th of July the fireworks are out over the water, and some of the best displays I've ever seen.
Indian Lake History
The following except is from the ODNR Ohio State Parks Magazine – Spring/Summer 2000
In its original form, Indian Lake was a conglomeration of shallow natural lakes and marshes covering 640 acres in the northwest corner of Logan County. A bulkhead was built on the Great Miami River inballroom the 1850s to enlarge and deepen the lake area to create a water supply for the new Miami Canal. The work was completed in 1860 and the resulting Lewistown Reservoir covered more than 6,000 acres with 29 miles of shoreline. At the turn of the century, railroads had come into vogue and the canals were abandoned for more efficient transportation. No longer needed for canal commerce, Lewistown Reservoir was designated by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 as a public recreation area known by its historic name, Indian Lake. Indian Lake quickly became a popular resort area with its numerous islands and untamed shoreline touted as a secluded wilderness paradise offering supreme hunting, shooting and relaxation.
In the early 1900s, Indian Lake became a leading destination to exercise the intellect as well as the body. The traveling Chautauqua Assemblies that swept the East and Midwest came to Indian Lake’s Orchard Island starting in 1910. These variety shows featured lectures and programs by a diverse roster of speakers and entertainers, including some famous and prominent figures such as the great orator William Jennings Bryant. Chautauqua drew such large crowds that a hotel and cottages were built on the island to accommodate out-of-town guests for the two-week gatherings in late July and early August. The village of Lakeview became a regularly scheduled stop in 1911 on the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, and the Ohio Electric Line provided service to the burgeoning lakeside community known as Russells Point. The rail lines provided easy access to rural Indian Lake park from Lima, Columbus, Dayton and neighboring communities.
With so much to attract visitors to the area by the early 1920s, local businessman Pappy Wilgus saw anballroom opportunity he couldn’t resist. Pappy and his son, French, built the Sandy Beach Amusement Park at Russells Point to entertain the growing numbers of tourists. Sandy Beach Amusement Park opened on Decoration Day, 1924. The highlight of the park was the fabulous Minnewawa Dance Hall, billed as the best and largest in Ohio, featuring two bandstands and room for hundreds of couples. The Minnewawa drew all the most popular touring performers of the day, including the Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman orchestras. The park also offered all of the favorite amusement rides including a roller coaster, merry-go-round, ferris wheel, Blue Beard’s castle, and Custer’s car ride, along with a penny arcade, fun house, boat excursions and food concessions. One of the more unique attractions was the Old Mill Shoot, in which boat-like cars plunged down a roller coaster hill into a tank of water, soaking all aboard. A boardwalk spanned the lake to give swimmers access to nearby Sandy Beach Island, a popular bathing area offering slides and diving towers.
As the “Roaring 20s” gave way to the Great Depression of the 1930s, “Ohio’s Million Dollar Playground” at Indian Lake lost none of its currency. Couples still crowded the amusement park for dance marathons which rewarded the most persistent couples with coveted cash prizes. The winners of the 1931 National Endurance Dance Marathon held at the park reputedly danced for an astounding 1,922 hours! Sandy Beach Amusement Park’s future looked rosy, but a disastrous fire in 1935 completely destroyed the Minnewawa dance hall, along with the wooden structures of the Old Mill Shoot, Custer Cars, Spa bathhouse and part of the roller coaster. A new park operator pumped $100,000 into improvements in 1936, took over management of most of the concessions, and rebuilt the dance hall in an open-air garden style. The most famous Big Bands booked the elegant new Moonlight Terrace Gardens at Sandy Beach Amusement Park in their tours. The bands played on, and twirling couples continued to dance until the early 1950s.
Indian Lake was officially designated as one of the original Ohio State Parks under the jurisdiction of the new Ohio Department of Natural Resources in 1949. The original park office was located in Russells amusement-parkPoint, close to the hub of activity at the amusement park. The 1950s were a successful decade for both Sandy Beach Amusement Park and the new state park, as well as local business people who provided services to tourists. The celebration of Ohio’s sesquicentennial in 1953 was a huge event at the lake, drawing crowds estimated at 100,000. These untroubled glory days couldn’t last, however. The societal turmoil of the 1960s came to Indian Lake to pay annual visits starting July 4, 1961. Late that evening, rowdy patrons at the bars across the street from the amusement park sparked a riot that involved nearly 500 youths. The July 4th riot became an unfortunate tradition that plagued the community for a decade as the riots grew increasingly large and destructive each year. The riots dampened everyone’s business during what should be one of the busiest weeks of the year.
Indian Lake State Park’s family campground was built in the mid-1960s across the lake from Russells Point and the amusement park. The class-A campground was an immediate hit, and it brought a new audience to the area. Meanwhile, the quaint, old-fashioned Sandy Beach Amusement Park was renamed Indian Lake Playland in 1967, and it continued the struggle to compete with northwest Ohio’s immensely popular new theme park, Cedar Point, for nearly a decade. Indian Lake Playland did not reopen on Decoration Day 1976, and a few years later, the rides and concessions were torn down.
Today, Indian Lake State Park attracts nearly 1.5 million visitors each year with its top-notch campground, swimming and boating facilities.
Cannot believe (I think I say this every month) that this is the last week of August already. School has already started for the kids where I live. We never had to return to school and end our Summer vacations until after Labor Day, but some now go the 2nd week of August and some the 3rd. week.Out My Window
Male Northern Cardinals play a crucial role in raising their young. Both parents participate in feeding the nestlings, with males sometimes feeding chicks up to 60% of the time as they grow older . Initially, the female may handle most of the feeding, especially during the first few days after hatching, while the male brings food to her at the nest . As the chicks age, the male increasingly feeds them directly, delivering insects, spiders, and larvae, which are rich in protein and essential for rapid growth
Male cardinals often use regurgitation to provide a nutrient-rich slurry to the chicks, especially for very young nestlings with delicate digestive systems . They may also crush larger insects to make them manageable for the chicks’ small beaks. Both parents typically feed the chicks multiple times per hour, with feeding intensity highest in the first days after hatching .
Cardinals continue to feed their young for several weeks after they leave the nest, teaching them to find food independently. Male cardinals may even take over full feeding duties once the fledglings leave the nest, allowing the female to start a new brood . This biparental care ensures the chicks receive adequate nutrition and protection during their most vulnerable stages.
Beyond feeding, male cardinals support the female during incubation by bringing her food, a behavior known as courtship feeding, and they vigilantly guard the nesting territory from predators . This combination of feeding, protection, and teaching makes male cardinals highly dedicated and effective parents.
Above copied from information from the internet when searching "do male cardinals feed the babies?"
Happy Tuesday all. Ohio weather is rain, rain, and more rain. So far, we haven't had the flooding that some in Ohio has, and sad that there were even deaths involved. It shows rain for the next week and half too. It seems that the end of Summer is leaving the way it began with Rain!! I love Summer, but I even have to admit that I'm ready for Fall. If it hasn't been sweltering hot on days the sun shone, it is muggy and rainy. Prayers for all who are in the flooded areas even in the other states. Okay, guess that's the weather report. hahahahaha
Enjoyed watching these Cardinals out my window one day this week, and I assume it is one feeding a baby, but was confused because it was the male so I had to look it up.
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Peabea
