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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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What the Actual Picnic Table!
Tulsa RV Ranch, OK, December 2025 No, this is not a substitute swear word. With the weather changing, having to setup a workspace, all the appointments, and unexpected emergencies, we were not sure the picnic table would get done before it was too cold to paint. (Other people’s emergencies, not ours.) It should have taken…
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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)…