#Huckleberry Railroad

[zeether]

I fucking love narrow gauge steam trains.

[aryburn-trains]

The 6:40 Christmas train has just arrived back at the station, they are loading the 7:30 train. On the head end of the train is the 464. Mount Morris, MI December 26, 2009

[gronkgal]

Day out with Thomas

Never got to go to one of these as a kid, but my sons were a perfect excuse to go as an "adult"(I have high functioning autism so I may never be a true adult). Nah my sons had a blast, it was great. Although I amit I liked the little diesel switcher(that was actually doing all the work) best.

[dprs99]

Crossroads Village & Huckleberry Railroad: Christmas Wonderland

Crossroads Village & Huckleberry Railroad: Christmas Wonderland

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

How nostalgic can a train ride get?

STRASBURG, PA: In its day, the Methuselah of Railroads, otherwise known as the Strasburg Railroad, was just another shortline railroad just managing to get by for its 4½ miles or so between Paradise, out by Lancaster, and Stroudsburg, a modest little Pennsylvania town in the Amish heartland. But in the late 1950's, its tracks gone to seed and losing money, it seemed as if it was about to be abandoned outright--until some entrepeneurs acquired the Strasburg Railroad and, as if being just another shortline wasn't enough, decided to take the experience full tilt, bringing back old-school steam locomotives as were otherwise being abandoned for diesel-electric power as was becoming the railroad standard.

Yet for some reason, the pull of old-school train rides (and no, not the kiddie sort as would have been around the Wonderland Zoo back when the Hair Bear Bunch were there) drove That Oh-So-Merry Chuckleberry and yours truly over to Paradise, Pennsylvania, close to Amtrak's Keystone Corridor (and rather intense electric passenger rail service), to so experience the genuine article of an old-school train ride.

A la the Strasburg Railroad. As in genuine steam power at the head end, a distinct-sounding whistle at the grade crossings, even coaches of old school design, restored with love and care even (though the rattan seating perhaps leaves something to be desired, the fact of which was noted to the conductor handling our coach ... who was rather surprised at our Funtastic little company and the fact of our being on a road trip).

Still, though, the gentle pacing of short-line steam powered excursion train passing through the Amish farming regions made for something rather exciting that even excited the otherwise excitable Magilla Gorilla and Wally Gator ... and to just appreciate the deep bass-toned bellow of the locomotive whistle as it approached the grade crossings with its long-long-short-long signal of warning to motorists.

Even if the speed was some 20 miles an hour.

And during the stopover in Strasburg itself ... Huck and I, over a sandwich at Cafe 1832, the Strasburg Railroad's cafe at their station, admitted a fondness for maybe treating the crew to some decent Amish/Mennonite-style cookery, local flavour even, especially that treacly-tasting confection of shoo-fly pie, something of an Amish speciality at dessert. One of the cafe staff offered to look us up some Amish-type cafes, but then noted that one of the local churches near Paradise (where our mobile bivouac was parked) was having a benefit supper featuring roast chicken-and-stuffing hot dish, vegetables, shoo fly pie and beverage; "might be worth a try for the real McCoy of Amish cookery" was what the clerk remarked.

So, on our return, trying to memorise the directions given us for that dinner led to quite a surprised look among many of the plain and simple Amish folk, whose fondness for homespun dress and basic colour practically surprised us all. Yours truly in particular ... and of the committee serving the dinner, were they surprised to learn that we had been referred by someone at the Strasburg Railroad when we asked about where we could get some classic Amish cuisine at its most basic. And to be surprised that shoo-fly pie was a sort of molasses crumb cake, treacly-tasting throughout ... Magilla Gorilla himself admitting that such wasn't exactly banana cream pie such as he was otherwise fond of.

I do have to admit, with Huck seconding the whole, that the chicken-and-stuffing hot dish, with lashings of chicken gravy over the whole, couldn't have been more interesting.

At any rate, folks, this could get to be rather interesting as the summer wears on ...

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[nateconnolly]

Me: Now that I’m about to move to a much smaller living situation, I should probably give away some of my books, so that my collection is smaller. That way, my books won’t take up too much space in my new studio apartment :)

Also me: When I get there, as a reward for doing the hard work of moving, I'll get myself a copy of Blood Meridian. And American Mother. And Desiderata and Nausea and Howard Zinn on War and Kindred and the novel version of The Shape of Water and Antigonick and Gravity And Grace and The Persian Bayan and The Collected Poems of Borges and The Empathy Exams and The Cancer Journals and Regarding the Pain of Others and Rap and Redemption on Death Row and Unraveling Oliver and Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals and Tetrabiblos and Unsong and Werewolves in Their Youth and The Shahnameh and The Lotus Sutra and The Complete Plays of Euripides and Thirteen Ways of Looking and Pig by sam sax and The Underground Railroad and Under the Banner of Heaven and On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals and A Question of Freedom and The Ferguson Report: An Erasure and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass and Allegory in Dante's Commedia and North and Howl and The Epic of Gilgamesh and Poison for Breakfast and The Inexplicable Logic of My Heart and Strange Adventures (2021) and Nightingale and When Einstein Walked with Godel and Everything and More and the Annals of Tacitus and Wuthering Heights and Last Night in Montreal and Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies and Exhalation and All My Sons and Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived and Plainwater and The Idiot and Anna Karenina and The Avesta and Braiding Sweetgrass and The Phenomenology of Spirit and The Blind in French Society and Short Stories of the Troubles and Cities of the Plain and Desert Solitaire and Mysterium Cosmographicum and Giovanni's Room and The Things They Carried and The Hidden Lives of Trees and Cosmos and The Kitáb-i-Aqdas and The Birth of Tragedy and Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad and Go Tell It to the Mountain and Archeology of Knowledge and Ledger and The Beauty of the Husband and Everything in this Country Must and Paper Covers Rock and Horseradish: Bitter Truths That Are Hard to Swallow and Crush and A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing and Emma and Richard II and Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong and Philosophical Fragments and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Mrs. Dalloway and The Seal of the Unity of the Three and Anatomy of Melancholy and 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pensées and The Argonauts and Huckleberry Finn and Lose Your Mother and La Vita Nuova and Renaissance Rivals and American Originality and The Art of War and The Fire Next Time and The Lola Quartet and Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution and The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and The Bloody Chamber and Howl's Moving Castle and The Poetic Edda. I'm sure I'll have space :)

[revasserium]

the unofficial ultimate bungo stray dogs reading list

this is mainly for myself bc i rly do want to read most if not all of these and i'm sure it's already been done by someone somewhere. but, i thought why not post it lmao; most if not all of these can be found on anna's archive, z-library, or project gutenberg! (also, consider buying from your local bookstore!) for those that are a bit harder to find, i've included links, though some are from j-stor and would require login to access.

detective agency:

osamu dazai:

no longer human (novel)

the setting sun (novel)

nakajima atsushi:

the moon over the mountain: stories (short story collection)

light, wind and dreams (short story)

fukuzawa yukichi:

an encouragement of learning (17 volume collections of writings)

all the countries of the world, for children written in verse (textbook)

yosano akiko:

kimi shinitamou koto nakare (poem)

midaregami (poetry collection)

edogawa ranpo:

the boy detectives club (book series)

japanese tales of mystery and imagination (short story collection)

the early cases of akechi kogoro (novel)

kunikida doppo:

river mist and other stories (short story collection)

izumi kyouka:

demon lake (play)

spirits of another sort: the plays of izumi kyoka (play collection)

tanizaki junichirou:

the makioka sisters (novel)

the red roof and other stories (short story collection)

miyazawa kenji:

ame ni mo makezu; be not defeated by the rain (poem)

night on the galactic railroad (novel)

strong in the rain (poetry collection)

port mafia:

mori ougai:

vita sexualis (novel)

the dancing girl (novel)

nakahara chuuya:

poems of nakahara chuya (poetry collection)

akutagawa ryuunosuke:

rashoumon (short story)

the spider's thread (short story)

rashoumon and other stories (short story collection)

ozaki kyouyou:

the gold demon (novel)

higuchi ichiyou:

in the shade of spring leaves (biography and short stories)

hirotsu ryuurou:

falling camellia (novel)

tachihara michizou:

in mourning for the summer (poem)

midwinter momento (poem)

from the country of eight islands: an anthology of japanese poetry (poetry collection)

kajii motojirou:

lemon (short story)

yumeno kyuusaku:

dogra magra (novel)

oda sakunosuke:

flawless/immaculate (short story)

sakaguchi ango:

darakuron (essay)

the guild:

f. scott fitzgerald:

the great gatsby (novel)

the beautiful and the damned (novel)

edgar allen poe:

the raven (poem)

the black cat (short story)

the murders in the rue morgue (short story)

herman melville:

moby dick (novel)

h.p. lovecraft:

the call of cthulhu (short story)

the shadow out of time (novella)

john steinbeck:

the grapes of wrath (novel)

of mice and men (novel)

lucy maud montgomery:

anne of green gables (novel)

the blue castle (novel)

chronicles of avonlea (short story collection)

louisa may alcott:

little women (novel)

the brownie and the princess (short story collection)

margaret mitchell:

gone with the wind (novel)

mark twain:

the adventures of tom sawyer (novel)

adventures of huckleberry finn (novel)

nathaniel hawthorn:

the scarlet letter (novel)

rats in the house of the dead:

fyodor dostoevsky:

crime and punishment (novel)

the brothers karamozov (novel)

notes from the underground (short story collection)

alexander pushkin:

eugene onegin (novel)

a feast in time of plague (play)

ivan goncharov:

the precipice (novel)

oguri mushitarou:

the perfect crime (novel)

decay of the angel:

fukuchi ouchi:

the mirror lion, a spring diversion (kabuki play)

bram stoker:

dracula (novel)

dracula's guest and other weird stories (short story collection)

nikolai gogol:

the overcoat (short story)

dead souls (novel)

hunting dogs: (i must caveat here that the hunting dogs are named after much more comparatively obscure jpn writers/playwrights so i was unable to find a lot of the specific pieces actually mentioned; but i still wanted to include them on the list because well -- it wouldn't be a bsd list without them)

okura teruko:

gasp of the soul (short story; i wasn't able to find an english translation)

devil woman (short story)

jouno saigiku:

priceless tears (kabuki play; no translation but at least we have a summary)

suehiro tetchou:

setchuubai/a political novel: plum blossoms in snow (novel)

division for unusual powers:

taneda santouka:

the santoka: versions by scott watson (poetry collection)

tsujimura mizuki:

lonely castle in the mirror (novel)

yesterday's shadow tag (short story collection; i was unable to find a translation)

order of the clock tower:

agatha christie:

and then there were none (novel)

murder on the orient express (novel)

she is the best selling fiction writer of all time there's too much to list here

mimic:

andre gide:

strait is the gate (novel)

trascendents:

arthur rimbaud:

illuminations (poetry collection)

the drunken boat (poem)

a season in hell (prose poem)

johann von goethe:

faust

the sorrows of young werther

paul verlaine:

clair de lune (poem, yes it did inspire the debussy piece, yes)

poems under saturn (poetry collection)

victor hugo:

the hunchback of notre-dame (novel)

les miserables (novel)

william shakespeare:

romeo and juliet (play)

a midsummer nights' dream (play)

sonnets (poetry collection)

the seven traitors:

jules verne:

around the world in 80 days (novel)

journey to the center of the earth (novel)

twenty thousand leagues under the seas (novel)

other:

natsume souseki:

i am a cat (novel)

kokoro (novel)

botchan (novel)

h.g. wells:

the time machine (novella)

the invisible man (novel)

the war of the worlds (novel)

shibusawa tatsuhiko:

the travels of prince takaoka (novel; unable to find translation)

dr. mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley

frankenstein (novel)

[t-800]

this is beyond niche but my favorite, most formative elvisploitation experience was a halloween play at huckleberry railroad in flint, michigan i saw as a kid where dr. frankenstein brought life to his monster, an elvis impersonator. i was so young, maybe four years old, that i was unfamiliar with elvis and just thought. man. didn't know frankenstein's monster was cool like that. as he kept doing his little elvis dances and catchphrases.

this sounds fun especially at a railroad

[bewitchingbooktours]

Join me this Saturday, June 29, at 2 pm for a presentation about Genesee County locations with ties to murder...and ghosts.

I'll be doing the presentation, a Q&A, and book signing.

2-3:30 pm in the Clayton Building.

Curious at Crossroads- Oddities Fest

Crossroads Village

6140 Bray Rd, Flint, MI

Get Tickets Here: https://bit.ly/3QUgeLr

[weather-usa]

Climate of Montana

Montana, often referred to as "Big Sky Country" or "The Treasure State," is located in the western United States. It is the fourth largest state by area, covering diverse landscapes ranging from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains. Here's an overview of Montana's geography, climate, and notable features:

Geography:

Montana is bordered by Canada to the north, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and Idaho to the west.

The Rocky Mountains traverse the western part of the state, including iconic peaks such as the Beartooth Mountains, Absaroka Range, and Bitterroot Range.

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Climate:

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Natural Resources and Economy:

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Overall, Montana's stunning natural beauty, rugged terrain, and diverse ecosystems make it a captivating destination for outdoor enthusiasts, adventurers, and those seeking a connection with the American West.

Indeed, Montana's landscape is defined by the striking contrast between its western Rocky Mountains and eastern Great Plains regions. Here's a closer look at each:

Rocky Mountain Montana:

The western part of Montana, comprising about two-fifths of the state, is dominated by the rugged Rocky Mountains.

This region is characterized by towering peaks, deep valleys, and pristine alpine lakes, making it a haven for outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers.

Glacier National Park, located in northwestern Montana, showcases some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the state, including jagged peaks, glaciers, and dense forests.

The Rocky Mountains provide habitat for diverse wildlife species, including grizzly bears, elk, mountain goats, and bighorn sheep.

The Continental Divide runs through this mountainous region, separating watersheds that flow into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Great Plains Montana:

The eastern three-fifths of Montana consist of expansive Great Plains, characterized by vast grasslands, agricultural fields, and rolling hills.

This region is known for its wide-open spaces, with sweeping vistas and big skies that seem to stretch endlessly.

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Towns and communities in this area often reflect the region's agricultural heritage, with many small farming towns dotting the landscape.

Despite its relatively flat terrain, the Great Plains region of Montana has its own beauty, particularly during the changing seasons when fields of wheat and grasslands take on hues of gold, amber, and green.

The contrast between Rocky Mountain Montana and Great Plains Montana is indeed one of the defining features of the state's geography, offering visitors and residents alike a diverse range of landscapes and experiences to explore and enjoy.

The climate of Great Plains Montana is characterized by its semiarid nature, with distinct seasons and notable temperature extremes:

Summer: Hot summers are typical in Great Plains Montana, with temperatures often exceeding 90°F (32.2°C) during the day. The lack of significant humidity provides some relief from the heat, but conditions can still be quite dry.

Winter: Winters are cold and harsh, with temperatures frequently dropping below freezing. January temperatures average in the upper 10s F (about -8°C), and frost or freezing occurs more than 200 days of the year. While total snowfall is light, occasional heavy snowstorms can occur, particularly in the northern parts of the region.

Precipitation: Average annual precipitation is scant, measuring about 13 inches (330 mm). This limited rainfall contributes to the semiarid conditions of the area. The plains are subject to cycles of drought followed by periods of unusually heavy rainfall and flooding.

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Chinook Winds: The chinook, a warm winter wind that blows on the plains near the foot of the Rockies, periodically interrupts the bitter cold. These winds can cause rapid temperature changes and provide temporary relief from the winter chill.

In contrast, Rocky Mountain Montana exhibits a range of climates dictated by elevation:

Lowest Zones: The climate of the lowest elevational zones, such as dry valley bottoms, is similar to that of eastern Montana, with semiarid conditions and hot summers.

Higher Elevations: As elevation increases, climates become progressively cooler, wetter, and more snowy. Temperatures are cooler at higher elevations, and precipitation increases, often in the form of snowfall. Forested areas in the Rocky Mountains receive more moisture and experience more snowfall compared to the lower elevations.

Overall, the diverse climates of Montana's Rocky Mountains and Great Plains contribute to the state's rich ecological diversity and provide a range of environments for various outdoor activities and ecosystems.

[owilder]

Macbeth; Othello; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; everything by Edgar Allan Poe, everything; Fahrenheit 451; Dandelion Wine; The Halloween Tree; October Country (even though October Country isn’t actually in it); The Illustrated Man; The Martian Chronicles; The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; To Kill a Mockingbird; Little Women (although I’m less enthusiastic about the second half than the first); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer; Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison, to avoid confusion); The War of the Worlds; almost everything by H. P. Lovecraft, almost everything; Roots (because Uncle Tom’s Cabin was so disappointing); In Cold Blood; Bonfire of the Vanities (it’s a bit of a slog, but it’s worth it); Gulliver’s Travels; Night on the Galactic Railroad (Japanese classic); The Blind Owl (Persian classic); Frankenstein; Dracula; The Grapes of Wrath; The Winter of Our Discontent; Stuart Little; The Trumpet of Swan; Charlotte’s Web; Cat’s Cradle; Breakfast of Champions; The Fur Person; Just So Stories; The Velvet Room; Jurassic Park; The Terminal Man; Around the World in Eighty Days; The Mysterious Island; Arabian Nights; Lorna Doone; The Thorn Birds; Robinson Crusoe; Treasure Island; The Master and Margarita (Russian classic)

There are more, I’m sure, that I’m forgetting in my enthusiasm. I just love gushing about books and literature.    

hey everyone. which "classic" books or plays would you actually recommend? like the kind of thing you had to read in high school and then were blown away by?

[zeether]

Took a trip out to the Huckleberry Railroad today and had a BLAST.

[naturepunk]

Happy (almost!) birthday, big boy! 

[distilled-prose]

From FB 01/23/22

The Denver & Rio Grande's K-27 class 2-8-2s were built as helper engines for use on Marshall Pass. Fifteen of these little Mikados were built by Baldwin in 1903 as Vauclain compounds with slope backed tenders. As was often the case, the compounds were soon determined to be problematic and most were converted to simple engines with superheaters. Only two remain today, No. 463, shown here on the C&TS, and No. 464 now on the Huckleberry Railroad in Michigan.

@ends-2-beginnings

[fallout-rocky-roads]

October 1+2, Main Character + Companion

Character profiles!

My Sole Survivor Huckleberry and a potential Companion from my Homebrew Darleen

Sole Survivor - Fo4

Name - Huckleberry Webb

Age - 42.

Gender+Pronouns - Genderfluid+he/she/they/it

Sexuality - Pansexual

Factions - Minutemen+Railroad, despises BoS, neutral on institute bc of Shaun

With a wild red mohawk, perpetually sunburnt befreckled skin, and a series of scars, Huck was never worried with hir looks. It typically didn't care about their attitude either. They dodged the draft, and when she was forced into it anyway, they grew more resentful and furious. He managed to get himself shot and sent home.

Huckleberry married Norah drunkenly, but honestly, and it decided to stay with her before either of them knew Shaun was on the way. Those short years were the happiest, even if Sanctuary was a little creepy, people handpicked by the government to live close to the vault.

When Shaun was taken, when Norah was killed, and when Huck was finally unleashed upon the wasteland, he finally found an outlet for all the rage and sorrow in her heart: killing everything in sight. He reluctantly helps others, begrudgingly becoming a Papa Bear for nearly everyone he meets.

One can find him in a dress, drinking at the Third Rail, or in a dress, splattered with blood as he bludgeons and slashes their way through raiders and ghouls.

Companion - Fallout: Rocky Roads

Name - Darleen Irons

Age - Born Pre-War so about 248 in 2300

Gender+Pronouns - Female+she/her

Sexuality - Lesbian (Romance-able with Stipulations)

Quests to Recruit - *a misc quest will appear when her song is played on the radio *a ghoul from Castleton, Jo, will ask the wanderer to find the "love of her life" for caps *Clayton Irons will ask you to make sure "the bitch is still sleeping" as an initiation into the Cannibal Kings

Back in the 2070s, Darleen Irons was on the track to be a superstar. She wrote her own songs, and her vivacious personality, motherly plumpness, sense of humor and her sheer talent put her firmly in the hearts of everyone she knew.

The only trouble was her goddamn husband, Clayton. They'd been set up as a part of their respective music contracts, their whole relationship a sham set up by the company for publicity. She had Jo on the side, her Personal Assistant for many years, and she could have sworn that Clayton knew about it. What she didn't know was that he had been the one to push for the relationship stipulations on the contract, and was in fact head over heels for her.

In conjunction with Vault-Tec, Darleen wrote a song called "Hope Underground", a song which still plays on the radio in the Rocky Wastes. It was a fairly well disguised advert for Vault-Tec Vaults, and in payment they made her and Clayton a set of personal Cryo-pods in their vault, and let Darleen pull a few strings to ensure Jo got a spot in a local vault.

It all went downhill the days the bombs dropped. Clayton found out about Jo and in a fit of rage fucked with the settings of the pods, allowing him to exit the pod as radiation levels dropped, but kept her in perpetual slumber.

Since she is still played on the radio, her voice torments him.

If released she will follow the Wanderer until she is reunited with Jo. Then, there is a quest to hook her up with a band in the wasteland to make new music. Alternately the wanderer can take her to Clayton, and he will pop a bomb collar on her and keep her as his "wifey". There will be many opportunities through the game to save her, and if she is not saved by endgame she pulls a Princess Leia and kills him, disarms her collar then books it, and finds Jo on her own.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

Is it really THAT easy to set up a Zoom conference?

For a Jetsonesque technology like video conference calling, the Zoom programme, and its related technologies, seem to make it all so easy. Especially when that pandemic made the likes of Zoom all the more impreative as a vehicle of contact for all manner of organisations and schools to maintain contact.

And me and Huckleberry had to admit that, for a short-notice video conference call such as we were setting up from the swimming pool area of our Myrtle Beach motel on the motel's WiFi innerwebz access to discuss summer plans, such could be daunting. Especially when you want to make sure you've got the greater crew on board, that it's both of us appearing on the main screen to discuss and ask questions of, and the subject of the video conference is to discuss the likes of Character Convocation appearances over the spring and summer.

Yet you want to be relaxed and casual about it, especially when we opened the conference confab after checkin of The Usual Suspects, so to speak:

"Greetings and salutations from the Grand Strand, even!" saith I. "'Tis Snagglepuss--"

"--and I'm Huckleberry Hound," saith my companion.

"--and the purpose for this video confab, I will have you know, is to keep you on the beam as to what we have in mind for the next Character Convocations ahead."

Huck: "I assume you still understand about the cancellation a couple years back of what would have been a rather tasty convocation at the Pie Day in Braham, Minnesota because coronavirus ... but at any rate, we'll actually turn up there on August 4th this year, which is when Braham holds its Pie Day celebrations."

"And we certainly hope," added I, "many of you have designs on entering pies in competition. Which should certainly get to make things rather tasty!" Prompting Magilla Gorilla to remark that he might want to enter a banana cream pie in same, with Bingo from The Banana Splits adding that one such may likewise be entered by the band.

"At any rate, folks," Huck added, "it might not be a bad idea to get started on what sort of pies you want to make for this rather interesting sort of competition." Added I, "With much meet-and-greet in the bargain, even!"

"You can be certain about that!" is how Hair Bear responded, adding that the Hair Bears might have designs on berry-type pies with fresh wild berries picked as much by themselves as with such ursine love-interests they're likely to come across during their mating season road trip "up north," more or less. (Huckleberry Hound: "What could be a more interesting entry?")

After quite awhile of discussing likely Braham Pie Day entries, it was time to discuss more immediate plans in the Character Convocation arena in the months ahead: "The first weekend in May," Huck remarked, "will find us in Ocean City, Maryland."

To which Inch High, Private Eye, asked "What sort of mystery have we lined up there?" Replied I: "Springfest." Which had much the crowd rather stunned, during which I added that the whole will also see a meet-and-greet on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

"Not to mention," Huck added, "a Maryland-style crab dinner."

"Guaranteed to include plenty of Old Bay Seasoning."

"And as a matter of fact," Peter Potamus remarked, "our Travelling SCUBA Par-tay will prepare the whole--including the crab cakes!"

To which Huck responded, "How long must it have been since I had some especially tasty crabcake?" Then: "We hope to have further details in preparation soon, so watch your e-mail for them."

"To be followed," added I, "by a couple days up Wildwood, New Jersey way via the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, taking in especially the 'Doo-Wop' architectural stylings of that particular piece of the Jersey Shore."

Which had TC asking what else would be following, to which I added the Strasburg Rail Road out Pennsylvania way ("we're looking at chartering a car or two as part of one of their scheduled runs," Huck remarked), maybe some time in the Poconos ... and perhaps a couple of surprises segueing into Braham Pie Day.

At any rate, perhaps an interesting spring and summer taking shape.

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