Category: Ramblings
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Holiday Cooking – Mustard
For the holiday season this year, the wife decided to do bit more cooking this year, beyond the traditional cookies. Last week, we canned up home made pickles, today’s challenge was home-made beer mustard. Hopefully the flavors will mellow a bit, fresh and still hot the horseradish was a bit over powering. But after a…
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Boy Scouts – Flag Ceremony
Had the opportunity for the boys to both participate in a flag pole dedication for our local church sponsor. A family had donated the installation of the flag poles, as a memorial, and the church asked for the Boy Scouts to help with the ceremony. Fairly straightforward, this is something the Boy Scouts do on…
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Happy Anniversary
A Happy Anniversary to my wife, who opted to marry me many moons ago (264 moons ago to be precise, or 22 years). Although I haven’t always made a bit deal about it every year, it makes me happy that she said yes. This year, I decided to go artsy, and wrapped her presents in…
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Block editor
I have had a few days now to get used to the new WordPress version, within which the biggest change is a the new “block editor” formatting for posts. I am old-school – I started working on websites when you wrote out the text long hand in html code – so the changes feel a…
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Cub Scouts – Arrow of Light
Over this last weekend, we bid farewell to our long-time Cub Scout den, as each of the boys crossed over to the Boy Scouts (now the Scouts of America). We have led this den with these boys for over 4 years, and had a great number of activities with each. Over the years, they have…