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Go Fly a Kite Right Now!
We got a couple of those ready-made kites the other day, took them out to Terry Trueblood Park and man did they fly! We used to fly kites you had to spend a little time and effort putting together back in the day. It was close to 90 degrees but we barely noticed. I remember…
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Learning to Use ClipChamp While Recording Cribbage Game on Cribbage Pro
I’m learning how to use the video editor ClipChamp, the free version on the new laptop. So, I muddled through a screen recording of playing what’s called the Daily Cribbage Scrimmage on Cribbage Pro, a feature-rich computer Cribbage game on which you can different skill levels of computer players from easy to impossible as well…
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Donating Furniture to ReStore and the Five Minute Rule
Recently, we donated some furniture to Habitats for Humanity ReStore in Iowa City. We got the idea from seeing our neighbors doing the same thing a few years ago. ReStore requires you to put the items in your garage or driveway. The request for pickup is an easy on-line form. You have to upload photos…
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Great Cribbage Tutorial for Beginners!
I’ve seen a couple of Cribbage videos on Huddle Around Games, which is a YouTube site dedicated to Cribbage as well as other games. This one is a tutorial on how to play Cribbage for beginners. He calls himself Zulwarn, which is his name when he plays the online form of a computer Cribbage game…
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Taming the Corrugated Corners
At some time in your life, you may have to protect your artwork from harm. And some experts think that has to involve corrugated carboard corners. If you ever have to deal with corrugated cardboard, be careful. It can cut you up. That’s how my arms got scratched and bruised, which you can see my…
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Big Mo Blues Show Podcast: “Chromatic Rock”
I caught the Big Mo Blues Show June 14th last Friday night. And I also caught the Big Mo Pod Show as well. Produce Noah got the month wrong for some odd reason. He said it was May 14th. Let it go. Anybody can be temporally impaired from time to time, including me. Anyway, the…
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Cicada-Geddon in Eastern Iowa
A couple of days ago I saw one of the many news items about the 17 year (and 13 year) cicadas invading Eastern Iowa this summer. But I haven’t seen any mention of the sex-crazed, fungus-infected zombie cicadas announced in April. So, you can relax. Try noise-cancelling headphones.
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The Triple Berry Frosty at Wendy’s
We got the Triple Berry Frosty at Wendy’s and we got a surprise answer at the order station when we asked what berries are in it: “Uh, I don’t actually know.” Fair enough. We tried to guess. Sena thought one of them was strawberry and another was blueberry (to account for the slightly bluish color).…
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Coin Rolling Conniptions!
Bank tellers who hand you sleeves to roll your coins laugh in their sleeves (so to speak) because they don’t count coins anymore and they like to see the customers wince. I complained about this in a previous post. I tried it. It’s doable. I used the Wikihow method. Using a cloth to put the…
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Who Wants to Roll Their Own Coins?
The other day we noticed our piggy bank is getting really full. We decided to take it to the bank and get it counted. Much to our surprise and dismay, the bank told us they don’t count piggy bank small change anymore. In fact, they stopped that about 6 years ago. Then they gave us…
