Trained weather spotter. Happily married lover of trivia, dogs, and Gopher Hockey. Politically independent.
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Probably the prettiest Ottumwa has ever looked. 😆
Nature put on a show in Ottumwa, Iowa, where a stunning sunset lit up an approaching shelf cloud. 🌅⚡
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I’d buy that for $30,500. Unfortunately I think they mean $30.5 million.
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He was told they couldn't find his diploma until his sister, whom he hadn't seen in over a year because she was on military duty, walked out carrying it.
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May 27
This captures my mood well.
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May 25
May 1918. Blackstone Hotel
Taft checks in and the clerk mentions Roosevelt is eating dinner there. The two hadn't spoken in six years.
They ran against each other in 1912, splitting the Republican Party and handing the White House to Woodrow Wilson. The friendship was dead.
Taft walked into the dining room anyway.
Roosevelt's friends saw him coming and went silent. He turned around. Taft was smiling.
Roosevelt jumped up and bear-hugged the man he had once called a "Fathead" with "Brains of a guinea pig".
The dining room stood up and applauded. Strangers who had read about the feud for years watched it end in real time.
Eight months later, Roosevelt died.
At the funeral, Taft stood alone and wept.
He later told Roosevelt's sister: "Had he died in a hostile state of mind toward me, I would have mourned the fact all my life. I loved him always and cherish his memory."
Don't wait.
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May 25
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
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Dog gets depressed because its house pool is closed for the winter. But then it gets a surprise.
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May 20
please just keep my food cold
May 11
JUST IN: Samsung upgrades its smart refrigerators with Google Gemini to recognize more than 2,000 foods.
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May 18
Road trip @AmyMauzy1!!
May 18
🐍 During the Festival of San Domenico in Abruzzo, serpent handlers drape dozens of nonvenomous snakes across the body and face of a saint before carrying him through the streets.
Full story: bit.ly/4dhnPxV
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May 16
Related to @marissavoss? 😀
That time the Mariners brought out “Ichiro girl” to throw out the first pitch. Little did she know she’d be throwing to Ichiro himself!
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May 15
.@VintageMNHockey I ordered a jersey from you on November 3, 2024. I've tried calling, emailing, etc...there is no way to "cancel" the order. Can I at least get my money back?!
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May 14
I’m sure people will be lining up to get on that ship again.
May 14
The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak told The Associated Press on Wednesday it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its schedule for the coming months, as it previously indicated it would.
The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius is listed on Oceanwide Expeditions' website as scheduled to depart on a cruise later in May that would take it to the Arctic. Three of the ship’s passengers died in an outbreak that was first confirmed earlier this month while the vessel was in the Atlantic. yahoo.com/news/articles/oper…
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May 13
This is Vitória.
She was rescued off a Brazilian highway after a car wrecked her in 2020. His rescuer, Leo, quit his job, moved cities, funded the whole recovery. Now she sits locked in on the human who rescued her.
[📹 leohduarte.oficial]
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May 11
Painfully easy
May 11
Which city with a team in all 4 major sports leagues has the LEAST amount of championships
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May 10
I refuse to believe that a viral internet video was scripted.
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😂😂😂
May 3
Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!
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A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.
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