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Month: January 2020

Fresh!

Years ago, we patronized a bakery outlet that sold day-old bread at a discount, and we’d stock our freezer with it, to feed our dozens of children. (OK, there were only six of them, but it seemed like a lot.) One day I got the mother of our hungry horde a bread-making machine. Which bread …

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Burned

Last week JB and I hiked Deer Creek Canyon. We enjoy the trails in this park because of the lovely vistas and quiet solitude. Due to unmelted snow and ice on our “regular” trail, we chose a different route. And while hiking we came across an unexpected sight. The first thing we noticed were a …

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Rule Breakers

Rules. There’s something about them that makes us want to break them. But if you’re an NFL player and you break a rule, it can cost you big bucks! For instance, physical contact with an official costs a player $35,096 for the first offense and $70,194 for the second! (It’s a lot cheaper to simply …

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Why’d You Do That?

I walked in the kitchen recently and was greeted with a most unusual culinary sight: three encyclopedias precariously perched on an upside-down bowl atop a slow cooker. My wife is quite creative in the kitchen, but this cooking contraption was somewhat unprecedented. Turns out the turkey breast she had in the slow cooker was just …

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