DIY: Yard Games

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The weather is turning warmer and sunnier (hopefully) and is the PERFECT time for picnics!  I found a wonderful article on the Pioneer Woman’s website listing some great outside games for picnics.  (She includes instructions at her site—which I’ve listed at the end.)

Kerplunk

This game uses some chicken wire, painted dowels and balls!

Hook and Ring Game

She says this is popular at bars and restaurants in Florida. It looks like fun. 

Giant Jenga

This game requires 2 x 3 blocks of wood and paint…seems easy enough. Hubby and I will make this one for sure!

Bean Bag Toss

Bean Bag Toss is another simple to make outside game.  It requires clay pot saucers, some paint and bean bags!

There are many more ideas at https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/home-lifestyle/entertaining/g36687460/best-outdoor-games/

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  1. Good Morning, Miss Pat! Great games! You have to be the most fun hostess ever! I know your family looks forward to coming to your house for gatherings!

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  2. Morning All!
    it’s 50* this morning…that’s a heat wave compared to the past week’s early temps!
    the honeysuckles have spread like wildfire since last year! and they are starting to open. the air is thick with their scent.

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    1. Morning, Pat! I dropped some info last night over at M’s, in case you’re interested. 59 here and clear – the wind hasn’t started up yet, which is nice….I put up the crushed egg shells but saw no barn swallows. I’ll try in front today and see.

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        1. The charging document for AG Paxton, personal stuff about the birds/pics and my yard, etc. I understood you to say you read over there anyway so….just thought I’d bring it to your attention. Your choice, my dear.

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  4. there’s ALWAYS a loophole…

    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
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    May 28, 2023 00:38

    Texas Sues Biden Administration for ‘Illegally Pre-Approving’ Migrants Through Mobile App
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/26/texas-sues-biden-administration-for-illegally-pre-approving-migrants-through-mobile-app/

    After Title 42 ended earlier this month, Biden’s administration published a new rule that requires asylum-seekers to apply for protection in any safe third country before they arrive in the United States.

    However, migrants can use an easily downloadable mobile app to circumvent the administration’s new rule…

    “By inviting illegal aliens into Texas, Defendants will inflict costs on the State for public education, law enforcement and incarceration, unreimbursed health care, and other public services for illegal aliens,” the lawsuit further stated.

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  6. Well, well, what do we have here?

    Two tweets, SECONDS APART.

    One Pro-Trump, the other Pro-Desantis.

    Yet, the Pro-Desantis tweet has almost TEN TIMES the views (2000+ vs 200+)

    Yes I certainly believe, this time, there won’t be election interference. Thanks @ElonMusk

    /s pic.twitter.com/zchnutxP4x

    — Nick Flor 🥋+🇺🇸 (@ProfessorF) May 27, 2023

    My impression is that Twitter was “fixed” just enough to make people think it’s workable again, and that that will be the extent of it. I hope I’m wrong, but it looks like a con job to me.

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    1. Good ole Jack – dude, you just might want to check out exactly WHAT they are impeaching him for first….don’tcha think??? SMDH – all this automatically ginned up outrage w/o even knowing WTH they are talking about!!!

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      1. if you read further below…their “secret” investigation was dubious at best…typical DEM move being executed by RINOS. and isn’t it a coincidence he called out speaker to resign because he appeared drugged up or drunk on camera–twice. AND he started an investigation in pfizer and big pharma.
        they want to turn texas blue in 2024…they need paxton out.

        dems are creating civil war among the repubs…they can’t beat us unless they divide us.

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  14. 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸
    @Travis_in_Flint
    Who is Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, the man leading the Impeachment?

    Phelan has served as the Speaker since 2021, after serving 6 years in the State House. He has assigned democrats to multiple committees and even put a dozen in charge, including a BLM activist and an anti gun activist on the criminal committees. Earlier this year 3 Republicans voted against him as Speaker and he retaliated by putting them on a committee chaired by a Democrat. He’s also responsible for holding up the Voter integrity bills by letting democrats leave to Washington.

    On May 19th a video surfaced showing Phelan speaking in the Chambers and he appeared to be heavily intoxicated. Afterwards, AG Ken Paxton called on his resignation stating he “negatively impacted the legislative process and constitutes a failure to live up to his duty to the public.”

    4 days later Speaker Phelan announced a secret investigation into Paxton had been going on and called for his Impeachment. This is clear retaliation. The Senate must object this sham!

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  23. interesting…yes if they are claiming insurance for the losses, allowing those losses would be fraud imo

    outhouse counsel
    outhouse counsel
    May 28, 2023 1:23 am

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    Apparently the Canadian athleticwear store Lululemon fired employees in their Atlanta outlet because they called police on repeat organized shoplifters. Apparently “getting involved” is “against company policy”.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/lululemon-employees-say-they-were-fired-calling-911/

    I am wondering whether the company files insurance claims or takes income tax deductions for these losses. If so, this would appear to be fraud, since company “policy” apparently is to let the public just have the merchandise for free.

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  29. “‘I’m Not Sanctimonious And I Don’t Look Like A Meatball,’ Whispers Ron DeSantis Crying Self To Sleep At Night”
    POLITICS · May 26, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    “TALLAHASSEE, FL — Soft whimpers were heard late last night at the Governor’s Mansion, as aides reported Ron DeSantis whispering in between sobs over insults lobbed his way by former President Donald Trump.

    “Trump’s WRONG,” DeSantis was overheard saying to himself as he sniffled. “I’m not sanctimonious and I don’t look like a meatball! He’s…he’s…just a big stinky jerk.”

    Trump has ramped up his attacks on DeSantis in the wake of the Florida Governor’s official announcement that he was entering the race to win the Republican nomination for President in 2024. “The state of Florida has gone downhill drastically since Rob DeSanctimonious has been governor,” Trump posted to his Truth Social account. “I helped him out bigly by endorsing him, basically handing him the victory, and this is how Meatball shows his gratitude! TOTAL LOSER!”

    DeSantis’s team was said to have been prepared for a harsh reaction from Trump to the campaign launch, but was still taken aback by the choice of nicknames. DeSantis, though appearing unaffected in public, has been hit hard. “I thought it might be fun to run for President,” DeSantis sobbed into his pillow. “I didn’t know people would be so mean to me. My name isn’t ‘Rob!’ Why did he call me ‘Rob?’”

    At publishing time, DeSantis’s staff was hoping to cheer the Governor up in the morning by surprising him with some delicious spoonless pudding and giving him an update on how much Disney’s stock has fallen.”

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  34. interesting take on the impeachment of paxton
    entire article
    The Vote Fraud Monster Is Coming for Ted Cruz
    By Jay Valentine

    On the Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans played near water, the leftists impeached the strongest elected voice in Texas for election integrity — Ken Paxton.

    Impeachments were history book items until Clinton, then two more for Trump and some predicting one for Biden. Everyone kind of gets it. It’s a political thing, with preposterous second-raters giving speeches about honesty, integrity, rule of law as they bend the rules to get their way.

    This one is a bit different. Paxton is the stand-up guy who — but for a very sketchy Supreme Court “standing” ruling — could have seriously upended the fraudulent election in 2020. He is ballsy, innovative, smart, and colorful. And he is the attorney general of a very big state — or was, as he now is suspended. It’s now up to the state Senate.

    He had one of those mistress events that beguiles Christian conservative types. Then there was some kind of lawsuit followed by a $3-million settlement. Republicans do seem to pay more for sex than the leftists who drive their victims off a bridge or bite their lip or just deny that it ever happened.

    Paxton apparently did everything above board — as far as the payment goes, even getting the Legislature to fund it. A group of RINOs and all the leftist Democrats held a secret investigation, leading to a bill sent to the Legislature, days before the holiday — leftists demanding a vote on the holiday Saturday.

    It’s railroading — done well!

    Yes, but remember Kari Lake! The leftists know that nobody will challenge them — nobody will push back — so why not?

    We deal in a world of imperfect pols — it’s just frustrating to see our imperfect pols treated with different rules from their imperfect pols.

    Texas, like a lot of conservative states, is run by leftists and RINOs.

    Take Wyoming — one of the most overwhelmingly red states — yet its Legislature is RINO city.

    In Texas, the house leadership was often, and currently is, RINO.

    It’s a stupid thing. It’s what elected conservatives do: they run as a conservative, win, then sell out by electing leadership that will eviscerate conservative programs. They all do it.

    There’s a bigger story here. Texas is preparing to go purple in 2024 and take out Ted Cruz.

    To do that, there must be industrial-scale voter fraud from the large cities. Ken Paxton stood in the way.

    Our Fractal team runs the voter rolls in Texas for voter integrity groups, so we have a bird’s-eye view. Republicans hold every major office — you would think they demand clean voter rolls.

    Nope.

    The Texas voter rolls are abhorrent — and when you get into the large metro areas, superlatives fail.

    In 2024, election fraud in Texas, like all states, is going into overdrive.

    Ballot-harvesting will be preceded by NGOs filling the voter rolls with mountains of people living in homeless shelters that can house a few. This will start in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin about four months before Election Day.

    College dorms and high-rise apartment buildings will have mail-in ballots littering the floors — picked up by organized, funded leftist organizations.

    Thousands of transient voters will be mailed ballots — and of course many will be long gone — and those ballots will vote against Cruz.

    The election commissions in the large cities will open their daily ballot count to their leftist masters to make sure they meet the fake ballot quota needed every day to take out Ted.

    Some election commissions will change ballots after they are cast — as our team and others proved happened in Texas in 2020. Twenty twenty-four is the Super Bowl for election fraud — to stop Trump — and Cruz is likely a co-victim.

    Because 2024 is the must-win, at all costs, leftist battle against Trump, there will be no limit to what leftists will do.

    Ken Paxton, a battle-hardened attorney general, whom the people like a lot, would have prosecuted the hundreds of fraud rings that will make themselves visible.

    So, step 1, take out Ken Paxton.

    If you can’t beat him at the polls, hold a secret investigation, known only to RINOs and leftists. Do not allow him or his attorney to examine the witnesses, use “triple hearsay” testimony as evidence, do not produce a single incriminating document, no witness cross examination — then demand that the Legislature, with a few days’ notice, vote on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend!

    Ted Cruz, like all smart guys who tell us how smart they are, is unfortunately more smart than clever. Twenty twenty-four requires a clever mindset — anticipating the tsunami of voter fraud he has coming his way. Probably before they take Ted out, we will see the polls showing he is terribly unpopular — maybe cruel to small animals.

    Expect media assaults aimed at supporting the inevitable election-stealing — so there is a narrative in place to convince the wine moms and Kiwanis Club types that while Texas lost Ted, we have fair elections.

    You saw them do it to Kari Lake — someone both physically and emotionally more compelling than our pal Ted Cruz. Ted isn’t going to win by 5–7 points the way Kari Lake did. Even with Trump on the ticket, he isn’t that popular. If Kari Lake can get manhandled by election commissions in Republican areas the way she was, Cruz losing is a real possibility.

    We are drawing your attention not to Ted Cruz. Your attention should be focused on the vast, multi-layer, constant, relentless drive from leftists and RINOs to prepare the 2024 ground to take out Trump or DeSantis — no matter what.

    The very idea of taking an immensely popular attorney general, who is the leading light speaking about election fraud, challenging the 2020 election as no other elected official did — and removing him from office with a laughable investigation alerts you, the voter, to how bad it’s going to be in 2024.

    It also should alert you, dear reader, to how vulnerable you are to leftists overwhelming all the institutions you hold dear.

    It’s one thing to slowly take over the schools, infiltrate the CIA and FBI and weaponize the state, make the military accept transvestites and argue that children should have life-altering surgery to imitate the opposite sex — but at least leftists had the good manners to do it slowly.

    What you see here with Paxton and last year with Kari Lake is the raw, unconstrained, shove-it-in-your-face enthusiasm the left has to end our country as we have known it — with the Texas Legislature gleefully going along!

    While everyone just takes it!

    From where we sit, the only thing that stands in the way is not elected officials — the left will take them out. It is not the Republican Party — they will disappoint. It is not the courts — they lost their interest in the law; they are partisans in robes. It is not the media — Breitbart is controlled opposition, never taking a stand on election fraud, and Tucker is out at Fox.

    All that protects us from the leftists — ending elections as we know them — are sad, tattered, dirty voter rolls in seven swing states.

    The Texas Legislature just checked out.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/the_vote_fraud_monster_is_coming_for_ted_cruz.html

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    1. OK, I’m still reading thru this but, once again, “if they do it, we can do it” bull shit!!! NO, NO AND NO!!!! He was having an affair with the employee of his biggest butt-buddy donor, FFS!!!!

      “He had one of those mistress events that beguiles Christian conservative types. Then there was some kind of lawsuit followed by a $3-million settlement. Republicans do seem to pay more for sex than the leftists who drive their victims off a bridge or bite their lip or just deny that it ever happened.”

      And Lyin’ Canadian Ted SHOULD be taken out – deport the jitbag until he PROVES his US citizenship!!!

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      1. oh you’re right.
        we’ll take the high ground right into hell.

        are you so naive that you believe not a single dem or rino has done any of these things?

        you’re all for allowing evil to take out a good person simply for not being perfect. and we can never fight back because we need to take the high road.
        when all the good men are gone because they’re not perfect and all we’re left with is evil men, then what?

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        1. Integrity is one of THE most fragile things on earth and far too many are more than willing to throw it into the wind and let it go….I WILL NOT!!!

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          1. then why the heck did you vote for Trump?
            there are things in his past that are not perfect.
            but they are IN HIS PAST.
            we all make mistakes.

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              2. Yes, we will always disagree on this one. I’ll pass on the mud pit, tho – you’d kick my ass right now, as weak as I am…..when I’m healthy again, we will re-visit that concept, eh?

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              5. Physically weak…..TBH, I can’t figure out why I haven’t keeled over yet while I was doing all of the yard work, altho I’ve had a few dizzy spells. I suck it up and carry on – work has to be done, regardless of how I feel.

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              7. Well, yeah, when you can’t eat anything…that does tend to weaken a person….and fish fuck in water, thank you very much! I do NOT drink water – ever! Coffee with a ton of creamer, all day, every day.

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  41. this is insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    clarion
    clarion
    May 28, 2023 10:09 am

    I’m not sure, but I think this is an escalation. Why aren’t all of the candidates for high office concerned with the fact that there are people in the world trying to starve us?

    You’d think the Republicans could at least manage a sternly worded letter against this lunatic.

    You’ll notice that Lurch uses the word “solution” for a non-existent problem.

    Sound familiar?

    John Kerry: Farmers Must Stop Growing Food to Meet ‘Net Zero’ Goals for ‘Emissions’

    Democrat President Joe Biden’s “climate czar” John Kerry is calling for farmers to stop growing food in order to meet the administration’s radical “net zero” goals for lowering “emissions.”

    Kerry, Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, issued the warning during a green agenda conference in Washington D.C.

    During the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) AIM for Climate Summit, Kerry told the audience that “we can’t get to net zero, we won’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution.”

    Kerry warned attendees that his and other world leaders’ “lives depend” on farmers ceasing their operations.
    Stopping farmers from growing food will lower agriculture “emissions,” Kerry insists.

    https://slaynews.com/news/john-kerry-farmers-stop-growing-food-meet-net-zero-goals-emissions/

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          1. LOL – actually, they are walking away from the bird seed…..they try once in a while to get into a feeder but they are just too big, so they scrounge what falls on the ground.

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  43. Gees-Louise! Can Fox be any more un-original? Yes, I have it on, muted…Newsmax just sucks….oh, if only I could watch OAN again!!! They have that idiot Frank Lutz on with his BS and oh, look! He has a new, fuzzy rug on his head!!!!

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  47. “The Greatest Generation commonly refers to those Americans who were born in the 1900s through the 1920s.”

    The Greatest Generation members all lived through the Great Depression and many of them fought in World War II. These individuals have often been described as driven, patriotic, and team-players. On Memorial Day we honor and thank all who have fought and died for our country, but these men and women are the ones we are closest to, the ones we knew and the ones we loved.

    They are – they were – our fathers and our mothers, our brothers and sisters, our grandparents. They knew what it meant to serve their country. They knew how to sacrifice, how to endure hardship, and how to live and give all for their fellow man.

    They were a different breed. Unselfish, hard working, caring people who loved their country and each other. They went through the toughest of times, and far too many gave all. They truly were ‘the Greatest Generation.’

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