I had to vacuum the Den and the master bath before I figured it out! Solution below the fold. To clarify a bit. Each of the four shapes has one value (positive integers). The numbers in each of the eight figures are the sum of the shape’s value PLUS the values of the shape(s) it
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…while meeting with governors to discuss wildfire prevention on the White House Campus in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. Why would someone meet with governors to discuss wildfires in Washington, District of Columbia?
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In all honesty, who has not done something like this?
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Miss Missy’s School DaysPublished through Old Schoolhouse Road Publishing This is a work of fiction and of art. Names, characters, places, incidents, and images are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2021
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On weekdays m morning begins with a look at Windy dot com yo check on the weather and compare forecast models. I do this as I’m sipping the very first morning coffee. All three reliable models are forcasting high temps of 99 degrees for the next few days. It I’ll be interesting to see what
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In his Histories, Herodotus writes, The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean [Red] Sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they set ashore … and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. … And thus it came
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The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell. Maurice Sendak, illus. Harper Collins, New York. 1964. (reprinted, 1992) They just don’t write ’em like this anymore. Or if they do, I haven’t found them and that’s too bad. As you know, I’ve been spending a lot of my life in the last year or so looking at children’s
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From the Infallible Source: James Brendan Patterson (born March 22, 1947) is an American author and philanthropist. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women’s Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch and Wizard, and Private series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels. His books have sold more than 300 million copies, and he was the first person to sell 1
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For your amusement, a few (draft) lines of a scene from Miss Missy’s School Days Book II of the Miss Missy’s School series I know. You’re wondering how in the world Lawyer wound up at the Farm, aren’t you? Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait for Book II! Miss Missy’s School DaysPublished through
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We wound up at a B&B in Columbus, Mississippi recently. The house was originally built in 1846, and there have been three subsequent additions, all done in keeping with the original architecture. The home is owned by a widow whose husband was an antique dealer. She gave us a guided tour. She loves silver. We
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Ace of Spades Headquarters Sunday Morning Book Thread
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The comments section is down at my early morning favorite blog. Fortunately, we have a back up Gab group. But @DaveinMA doesn’t think we should be taking any chances.
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You’re probably already sitting down. Good. USPS is at it again. I ordered a book. The seller, In Elk grove Village, Illinois, shipped the book on July 1. That is to say, the seller, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, gave the book to the United States Postal Service, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, which transported
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Jose Alberto Gutierrez doesn’t just turn trash into treasure—he transforms it into a free education for neighbors. As The Telegraph reports, the middle-aged garbage collector in Colombia has spent the past two decades collecting discarded books he finds while on the job in Bogota, the country’s capital city. Thousands of titles later, Gutierrez has an enormous library,
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories (2008; 1st 1947) This is an essay based on an invited lecture Tolkien gave at St. Andrews College in early 1939. The Andrew Lang Lecture was, and still is, an annual lecture In honor of the famous “Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as
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#Mooreeffoc Haha! I see I already have a ‘Tolkien’ tag. Whoda thunk it?
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reposting today. Happy Independence Day! Grievances Survey Originally published on July 4, 2019 by Marica An annotated Declaration of Independence is here, complete with what prompted the inclusion of each Grievance. As I could not figure out how to embed a real survey, we will do this the old fashioned way. Please use the Comments to answer the following
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