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Jackie Wilson Story double vinyl

Posted on September 3, 2022 by bturnip

Double the Jackie Wilson. Disc 1 is an all time great collection.

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Happy April Days

Posted on April 10, 2022 by bturnip
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Small Grill Refurb

Posted on July 3, 2021 by bturnip

My relatively basic grill has been slowly but surely trying to give up the ghost. It has silently been begging to be sent off to the great scrapyard in the sky. I’m having none of it. I think I want … Continue reading →

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First day of school…

Posted on May 4, 2021 by bturnip

Attending on campus, that is. Happy students:

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Get a load of this cabbage

Posted on June 11, 2020 by bturnip

Charlie brought home a Burpee 3rd grade cabbage contest.  I’d say it turned out pretty good, considering that it was battered and overall a little worse for wear by the time it finally got planted in the ground: This was … Continue reading →

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Ticket to Ride wood insert

Posted on May 11, 2020 by bturnip

I recently consolidated our Ticket To Ride game with a [custom foamcore insert].  While I was mostly satisfied with what I created, looking at some of the fantastic examples on Reddit’s foamcore subreddit gave me an itch to go back … Continue reading →

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Leviathan Hall April roundup

Posted on April 26, 2020 by bturnip

Social isolation in spring time could be worse.  We have flowers blooming: New social isolation skill builder- baking bread: And our gardens are doing great at the moment- here’s a nice haul of beets:

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Board games: Consolidating Ticket to Ride

Posted on April 6, 2020 by bturnip

Here at Leviathan Hall, we like Ticket to Ride and play exclusively with the 1910 expansion.  We have never even opened the smaller cards that came with the base game. I have been considering making a new box insert that … Continue reading →

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Dress like a book character day…

Posted on March 2, 2020 by bturnip

Charlie is Hilda from the Luke Pearson series of books. Graydon is the mouse from Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

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Cool weather gardening at Leviathan Hall

Posted on November 9, 2019 by bturnip
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