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Barbie Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken Doll

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Snow and rain

No, these aren’t photos from two days ago, when we got the freakishly early first snow of the year. These are photos from today, as we get an even more freakishly early second snow.

Fortunately for M and his camping trip, it was actually dry on Friday night and Saturday. The rain didn’t start [...]

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Bigfoot

S here, and we got the first snow of the season this morning. I can’t remember snow ever coming this early, but it’s been unseasonably cold. And the whole weekend is supposed to be rainy, cold, raw, and windy — so of course M is on a Boy Scout camping trip.
We discovered last [...]

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Teens versus preteens

S here, and last night was my first session of leading Boy Scouts through the Family Life merit badge. It was a markedly different experience from when I led the financial management merit badge last year.

Last year the boys in my group were mostly teens in high school. This year they were mostly preteens [...]

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