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The circus and an inflatable slide over rows of corn at the Pumpkin Festival

So I went with my girlfriend to Hunsader Farms’ Pumpkin Festival over a month ago, and I just now got around to sortingout the photographs, so figured I’d make a blog post about it now.  Not too much to it, I suppose.  Went to the Pumpkin Festival, walked around, looked at crafts and such, had a great time.  Of particular interest was a massive pneumatic pumpkin cannon, which hurled pumpkins a thousand-some feet off into the forest (I can only hope no unfortunate persons or woodland creatures became its target).

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A kangaroo, happily munching away at some fruits and leafy greens

I was back in Bradenton for the weekend today, and ended up going out to Majical Miniatures animal sanctuary with my dad, sister, and girlfriend.  My dad’s been running a pet shop lately, and some way or other ended up meeting the woman who runs it, who offered to take in our prairie dog, who’s getting rather old, and hasn’t been handling pet-shop life particularly well (she was sort of a display animal, just there to hang out and play with the customers).  So Annie the prairie dog went away to their shelter, and today we went out to see her, and the rest of the animals.  The interesting thing is, the shelter is next door to the house and land where my family used to live out in Parish: driving back onto the property, we actually saw the old chicken coop that we built oh-so-many years ago.  Dad had told us that they had kangaroos and wallabies, and sure enough, just as soon as we walked through the door there was a kangaroo eating his lunch (or was it supper?)  I just had to bring the camera along, and got some nifty shots, albeit with only a single on-camera strobe to work with.

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