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Hey Google, what’s 1/6 of an inch in decimals?

Google:
Image is a screenshot of Google’s calculator showing 1/6 on an inch = 0.1666666 and it = 2.63047 miles.
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Was pleased that despite the severe storms last night the only “damage” was a few boughs on this tomato plant.

Electricity flickered but we never lost it for more than a few seconds.
Obnoxiously large tomato plant in a raised bed with 3 large boughs laying toward the ground.
May 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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High pain day so I skipped this morning’s walk. But I did make it to watering the garden on my lunch break.

I’m sure there’s a “right way” to wrangle these tomatoes but at this point I’m just happy they’re still alive.

#Garden
#Tomatoes
#RASucks
Two raised garden beds each with two overflowing tomato plants. A raised garden bed with two tomato plants that are twice as tall and wider than the bed.
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Morning garden check…

Squash

My broccoli is flowering… so I’m going to try to get seeds from it if the heat doesn’t get too bad.

Blackberries

I’m eating the strawberries before the birds can get them…even if it’s one at a time. 🤣

We have 6 new tomatoes!!!
Tiny Butternut squash plant with one bright yellow bloom I have no clue what I’m doing so this broccoli was planted at the wrong time of year. But they flower and will apparently create pods with seeds. So I’m going to pretend that was my intention all along. Out of the typical fluffy leaves there’s long thin sprouts with little nubs. Some of which have yellow flowers. Blackberries that are more pink that purple. But I’m cheering them on. A single strawberry in a white bowl. Also, this is a tiny bowl so the strawberry isn’t that big.
April 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Baby ducks!

#MorningWalk
Mama duck with 10 or so ducklings in the grass near the park bench. Lots of ducks and one crane at the edge of the lake. Two clusters of ducks are a mama and her ducklings. Mama duck and 3-4 ducklings swimming in the lake.
April 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It’s a little gloomy, but comfortable. The sun started to break through the clouds about half way through our walk.

#MorningWalk
April 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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From the United States Holocaust Memorial Musem

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
CONCENTRATION CAMPS, 1933-39 During the first six years of the Nazi regime, thousands of Germans were detained or confined extra- legally. The conditions were usually harsh and there was no regard to the legal norms of arrest and imprisonment of a constitutional democracy. KEY FACTS 1 Nazi officials established the first concentration camp, Dachau, on March 22, 1933, for political prisoners. It was later used as a model for an expanded and centralized concentration camp system managed by the SS. 2 What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process. 3 The major purpose of the earliest concentration camps during the 1930s was to imprison and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.
April 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Every day I go out and give the garden a little pep talk…Sometimes it gives me one back.
Picture of a small branch of a young lemon tree that is in full bloom. (against the blurred background of our yard)
April 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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People (mostly women) who use their spouse’s name after marriage can’t use a birth certificate, DL, Real ID, or marriage license as proof… so the only option is a passport?!?!?

😳

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
February 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Black background with white text: Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion. Martin Luther King, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom
January 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM