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Watermelon Cookies Anyone?
Beggs, Ok, January 2026 The Great British Bake Off had slice and bake cookies with intricate designs as the signature challenge for episode 2. Most contestants used a shortbread cookie, which is not our favorite, so we opted for chocolate chip cookies. The good news is that the cookies are not watermelon chocolate chip flavored;…
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Math is Hard
Tulsa RV Ranch, OK, December 2025 Some of you might be wondering why a rectangle has diagonals that are the same length. 🦗🦗🦗 What, no one? Why do we need to learn something new? BECAUSE I TOLD YOU SO! Wait, that belongs in the “Things I Learned From My Mother” post. Um, it is up…
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Yellowstone YMCA
They are building a YMCA in Yellowstone National Park. This is one of the promotional posters. (The Image is large, so click to zoom. You will you will have to go back to the original page.) We were talking to the YMCA employees about pausing our membership while we were gone. They were asking why…
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Panda Express is Very Wise
Broken Arrow, OK, December 2025 Other people have contested this, but John thinks Panda Express is very wise.
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Researching Cans of Whoop-Ass
John and his friends purchased a new video game to play together. Playing solo, they seem to do okay. Playing as a group, they are doing miserable. They have a staggering 75% to 90% loss rate on most game nights. It might have to do with how the game chooses to determine the skill of…
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Happy Birthday, Dad!
No Ifs Ands or Butts* You Are A Great Dad! Love,Katie & John * Well, maybe a few butts.
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I found Robin, …
Guernsey State Park, WY, May 2025
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We Did The Math … Wrong?
Longmont, CO, April 2025 While walking through the cereal aisle, John spotted math on a cereal box. He took a picture because this challenge could not be ignored. As it turns out, this was a necessary evil. Almost everything about this marketing blurb is wrong. Problem #1 The surface area of a torus (i.e., doughnut)…
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Ah, Memories of the Good Ole Days…
Fort Laramie, WY, April 2025 The days when you could die of dysentery, rattlesnake bites, and Indian attacks at the drop of a hat. You might even have to cannibalize your team members! He never played the video came, but John played an in-person variant of this in middle school. The video game “simulates” a…
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You Can Hunt That?
Cedar Bluff State Park, KS This raises so many questions: So many questions, and so few answers.