Summer Picnic Hacks

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I found these creative picnic hacks at onecrazyhouse.com:

Turn a chip bag into a bowl!  This hack comes via thisgrandmaisfun.com. You begin by turning down the top of the bag (purely for aesthetics).

Poke the corners in to prevent the bag from falling over.

As you roll the bottom up, the chips will come to the top. When you need to, roll up some more!

Use a six-pack drink container to hold the utensils!

Use a shower cap to keep cold foods cold!

Use a fitted twin sheet to cover your picnic table!

Create a “sticky finger station” for wipes and such to avoid constant running in and out of the house!

This hack I never heard of, but would love to try: Cooler Corn!  From the onecrazyhouse website:

Did you know you can cook corn in a cooler? Yeah, me too. We’ve all heard of corn on the cob but how much do you know about the different ways you can make it? And keep it hot during your picnic? Cooler corn is probably the easiest way ever to cook corn on the cob.

Just boil some water in a pot on the grill and make sure the water is boiling hot. Place some ears of corn in a clean cooler then fill the cooler with water and firmly shut the lid. The corn cooks and doesn’t get cold. It’s basically science but it’s cool!

SOURCE: ONECRAZYHOUSE.COM

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  1. Morning All!
    dark and hazy looking sky out there this morning. temps are about 50*. the hummers must be sleeping in this morning because usually once i turn a light on, they sit on the railing waiting for the feeders to come out. none out there that i can see yet.

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    1. Wow! Some really neat ideas! Never heard of cooking corn that way and that’s a truly brilliant idea with the fitted sheet!!! It’s up to 66 now with sunshine but there were some clouds hanging around when I first got up. Nasty Wheezer scratched me again! He was rubbing his head up against my hand as I was petting him, then pulled back and slashed out with his claw. IDK WTF his problem is but I’m getting tired of it. Ah, well – think I’ll give up on trying to tame him and just feed the putz….sigh….I am switching to canned cat food, tho, in a separate dish from his dry food. Otherwise, he leaves too many bits and pieces and the dish gets nasty & sticky.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        is it possible he smells Jake on you at those times?

        I really wanna try the corn idea–but we never have a bunch of people at our house…LOL
        I like the shower cap/ice thing for cold dishes

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    2. Oh, and the hummers – maybe they were all flocking to the feeders before to stock up for their migration, which they’ve now begun?

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        1. Yes, they lied to him about puberty blockers being temporary – his son transitioned into a “Vivian” and is now fully estranged from him. In his mind, they “killed” his son.

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  5. para59r

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    Coyote

    August 17, 2024 01:13

    Bringing over Mollypritcher5’s excellent catch from late last night.

    BOMBSHELL REPORT: Video emerges of Kamala Harris openly telling a crowd she will STEAL A COMPANIES PATIENT and take it over..

    “I will snatch their patent, so that we will take over.”

    “I have the will to do it!”

    pic.twitter.com/FG7jwc2bmo

    — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) August 17, 2024

    This a Declaration of War against the American People.

    I don’t remember her building anything. So what gives her the right?
    She aint Queen or King so she has no Divine Right which is what she’s claiming.
    First she’ll take the Vote. Then the Patent. Then your Property and then your Life.

    Trump is going to have to recalibrate for this one. She’s saying all the quiet stuff out loud and the only way she can make good on her threat is use her army of illegals, Antifa, and other brain dead liberals and dye in the wool commies. Meanwhile I think she just lost half or more of her government minions as I can’t see anyone abiding by this.

    Was she set up to say this so that her other commie friends can come into convention and snatch her stupid ass?

    This wild.

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  6. ain’t she something?

    Troublemaker10

    August 17, 2024 12:30 am

    Reply to  sunnydaze

    Eric Abbenante
    @EricAbbenante

    Power hungry Kamala Harris describing how she can ruin lives with the ‘swipe of a pen’: “I learned that with the swipe of my pen, I could charge someone with the lowest level offense. And because of the swipe of my pen, that person could be arrested, they could sit in jail for at least 48 hours, they could lose time from work and their family, maybe lose their job. They’d have to come out of their own pocket to help hire a lawyer. They’d lose standing in their community. All because of the swipe of my pen. Weeks later I could dismiss the charges, but their life would be forever be changed. So I learned at a very young age, the power.”

    Cont. (And video linked)

    Power hungry Kamala Harris describing how she can ruin lives with the ‘swipe of a pen’:
    “I learned that with the swipe of my pen, I could charge someone with the lowest level offense. And because of the swipe of my pen, that person could be arrested, they could sit in jail for at… pic.twitter.com/AX7HQEYhOB

    — Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) August 16, 2024

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  7. sunnydaze

    sunnydaze

    August 17, 2024 12:32 am

    BREAKING: Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, opposes a proposed election rule change requiring three poll workers to count ballots separately at precincts on election night to verify the number matches the voting machines’ record.

    — Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) August 16, 2024

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    1. Awesome! Much easier to save that link than a Tweet! And I just watched it 3 times…..again….can’t get enough of it!

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  9. Laura Loomer

    @LauraLoomer

    🚨MIKE NELLIS AND LOREN MERCHAN OF AUTHENTIC CAMPAIGNS CAUGHT LYING IN THEIR RESPONSE TO THE

    @JudiciaryGOP

    COMMITTEE’S REQUEST FOR RECORDS🚨 Hi

    @MikeNellis

    , On page 2 of your reply to the House Judiciary Committee

    @JudiciaryGOP

    (SEE RECEIPT BELOW), you stated the following about your business partner, Loren Merchan, the daughter of Judge Juan Merchan and the President of your company, Authentic Campaigns

    @Authentic_HQ

    : “Ms. Merchan has not been personally managing programs for any of Authentic’s political clients during the 2023-2024 election cycle, and has minimal input or contact with any political clients. Accordingly, Ms. Merchan has never been personally involved in or even made aware of any specific client work that mentioned the trial of Donald Trump in any way.” Contrary to that statement, as I exclusively exposed with

    @CcpSkipTracer

    , per the Federal Election Commission’s records, it appears that during the 2023-2024 election cycle, 13 political clients of Authentic Campaigns have sent 392 separate payments to the PERSONAL HOME RESIDENCE of Loren Merchan (located in Richmond, Virginia), which is a total of $8,656,015.06.  That is over $8.6 MILLION from anti-Trump Democrats that has been sent to the personal home residence of your colleague, Loren Merchan, the PRESIDENT OF AUTHENTIC CAMPAIGNS! See breakdown of payments below. 👇🏻

    @RepDanGoldman

    , 35 payments = $191,591.92

    @SenatorTester

    , 112 payments = $5,847,638.08

    @RepJasonCrow

    , 18 payments = $344,316.95

    @SenatorHeinrich

    , 37 payments = $642,201.85

    @RepUnderwood

    , 30 payments = $274,550.00

    @RepSherrill

    , 22 payments = $280,213.34

    @RepAngieCraig

    , 34 payments = $304,950.00

    @WhipKClark

    , 21 payments = $212,000.00

    @NikkiBudzinski

    , 17 payments = $114,100.00

    @SenAngusKing

    , 19 payments = $113,702.50

    @RepMrvan

    , 21 payments = $106,295.42

    @maziehirono

    , 16 payments = $168,420.00

    @RepValHoyle

    , 10 payments = $56,035.00 You are now guilty of lying in an official response to the House Judiciary Committee which shows me that you, Loren Merchan, and Judge Merchan have a lot to hide. Sources tell me you and Loren have lawyered up with

    @marceelias

    Marc Elias, the Democrat Party’s favorite attorney when they need to cover up a corruption scandal and political illegality. Is this true? Or will you lie about that too? I am watching you Mike. And I am monitoring Loren as well.

    @CcpSkipTracer

    and I are watching every single move you make, from Chicago (where you and Authentic Campaigns are located), to DC, to Richmond, Virginia where Loren lives with her husband Taylor who works for Joe Biden’s Census Bureau. We are exposing all of your corruption and your lies and we aren’t going to let you get away with this and what you have done to President Trump via weaponized government. I am turning over all of my evidence to

    @Jim_Jordan

    and the House Judiciary Committee and I am going to keep exposing you till you are jailed. You better comply and watch your words carefully, because

    @CcpSkipTracer

    and I are watching all of your lies. Tell Loren I said hello. I know she’s hiding. RECEIPTS BELOW: 👇🏻

    https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1824602507093373221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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  10. Govt Lies

    August 17, 2024 1:03 am

    Given SD’s posts re: a Trump cabinet, I found this “interesting”, to chose a word.

    If Harris and Walz weren’t radical enough, check out her proposed cabinet: Eric Holder as Chief of Staff, Jake Sullivan as Secretary of State, Rahm Emanuel as National Security Advisor. Notice a pattern? The Obama/Biden “Fundamental Transformation” continues… pic.twitter.com/7LAHN6wiq3

    — Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 15, 2024

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  11. Greg Price
    @greg_price11
    Kamala has now made a total of four policy proposals since becoming the nominee:

    1) Stealing President Trump’s “no tax on tips” policy
    2) Stealing J.D. Vance’s tax credit for new parents.
    3) Implementing communist price controls for food, which will make food a lot more expensive and cause rationing.
    4) Giving new homeowners $25K down payments, which will make housing more expensive due to subsidizing demand

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  12. Eric Abbenante
    @EricAbbenante
    Kamala Harris became Hiding Harris because she learned from her last presidential campaign that her ideas are lampoonable:
    “For every 1% differential between what they are paying men and women for equal work, there will be a fine of 1% of their previous year’s profits.”

    Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign and her Senate office were both found to pay male staffers more than female staffers.
    ‘Rules for thee, not for me.’ personified by Kamala Harris.

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  18. Just The News: “The second presidential debate will take place in Philadelphia next month, ABC News announced on Friday, at the National Constitution Center.

    Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, and former President Donald Trump have already agreed to take part in the debate. It will be the first debate between Trump and Harris, since the first presidential debate in May was between Trump and President Joe Biden.

    The venue has hosted previous town halls with Biden and Trump when Biden was a presidential candidate in 2020. It is located near Independence Hall, where the historic Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed.

    In order to qualify for the debate, candidates must meet certain criteria, including appearing on the ballots in enough states that they could theoretically win the election in November. They also have to garner 15% support in four separate national polls of registered or likely voters. 

    The debate, which takes place on Sept. 10, will be hosted by World News Tonight” anchor and managing editor David Muir and ABC News Live “Prime” anchor Linsey Davis, and will air at 9 p.m. It will be available for streaming on the ABC News Live website and channel, along with the streaming services Disney+, and Hulu.”

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  19. Just The News: “Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is aiding former President Donald Trump in his debate preparations against Vice President Kamala Harris, the New York Times reported. Trump and Harris are set to debate Sept. 10 on ABC News.

    Speaking to the NYT, Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump “will continue to meet with respected policy advisers and effective communicators like Tulsi Gabbard, who successfully dominated Kamala Harris on the debate stage in 2020.”

    So far, her contributions to Trump’s efforts appear to have been limited to a recent practice session Trump held at Mar-a-Lago.

    Gabbard herself previously debated Harris in the 2020 Democratic primary cycle during which she attacked Harris’s record as a prosecutor. She ultimately left the Democratic Party and has found some traction with Republicans.”

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  24. Here ya’ go, Pat! PA is Trump country now!!! H/T M – interesting that the person filming it is Daniel Baldwin…..one of the infamous Baldwin brothers? He is a film-maker….surely it’s not him – he’s a lefty, I think.

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  27. Phew! Toasty out there in the sun (temp up to 84 and not much of a breeze) – I do believe the Orioles are gone for the year since the jelly doesn’t appear to have been touched and the sparrows/finches are busy with the seed feeder. Just did my walkabout, watering can in hand – even w/all the rain, the pots dry out fast in the sun, especially petunias, marigolds and the hanging plants.

    I was concerned about the bigger lopes ripening and falling off too soon due to their weight, then I remembered I still had some unbleached muslin that I used to tie up the saplings. I cut some wider strips and fashioned hammocks for the 3 biggest lopes, which are the ones closer to being ripe. Now they won’t smash open hitting the ground!

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      1. Michael gave me the idea when he talked about using panty hose and since I already had the muslin, I figured that would work even better.

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  28. “Biden Briefly Released From Captivity To Campaign For Kamala”

    Politics · Aug 16, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attendees at this week’s Harris-Walz campaign rally in the nation’s capital were treated to a rare occurrence as President Joe Biden was briefly released from captivity to campaign for Kamala.

    In a rare public appearance, the leader of the free world took the stage to show his support for his Vice President as she held an event to garner support in her bid for the White House. Sources revealed Harris obtained permission to have Biden temporarily released from his confinement for the rally.

    “It’s good to be out here in the fresh air for a few minutes, folks,” Biden muttered to the crowd. “They usually only let me out for… for the… they sometimes… for the meetings with heads of state… the… but only… those things. Today, I’m fortunate that they let me out of that dark room so that I could come down here and show my support for my good friend… the black gal over there. She’s going to do a great job succeeding me as senator for the great state of Delaware, the position I’ve been honored to hold for the last half-century. I know she’ll be just as effective as that… as the… that other black fellah I worked with. Barack Osama was his name. Anyway…”

    Following his brief remarks, Biden was quickly whisked away by Secret Service agents, thrown into a wooden crate, and transported back to the White House basement until he would be needed again.

    At publishing time, Biden reportedly asked his handlers if he had done a good enough job to earn an extra scoop of ice cream.

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  29. “9 Shocking Things J.D. Vance Did In High School”

    Politics · Aug 16, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    “As even more incriminating pictures of senator and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s scandalous high school years surfaced in recent weeks, the nation was left wondering: who is this total freak from Ohio, and what other scurrilous mischief did he get up to in his youth?

    The Babylon Bee conducted an extensive investigation to uncover the following list of shocking things J.D. Vance perpetrated in high school:

    1. Illegally downloaded songs on Napster: A cyberthief at such a young age. Disturbing.
    2. Stuck pencils between his fingers and pretended to be Wolverine: It doesn’t get much weirder than this.
    3. Called Wendy’s and asked if their refrigerator was running: The restaurant’s employees from that night are still scarred to this day.
    4. Wrote “Seymour Butts” inside the jacket of his math textbook: What type of deranged person does this?
    5. Said “Not Here!” when the teacher said his name while taking roll: Liar then, liar now.
    6. Dared his friends to spell “ICUP”: No one actually saw anyone pee, J.D. Stop spreading lies.
    7. Pretended to stab himself with lead from a mechanical pencil: Pretend violence always leads to real violence.
    8. Typed “58008” into his calculator and held it upside down so that it said “BOOBS”: No one but J.D. Vance would ever do this. Literally no one.
    9. Was praised by his buddies for the most ridiculous practical joke ever by installing a tampon dispenser in the boys’ bathroom: Wait, this wasn’t J.D. Vance, it was the other party’s vice presidential candidate — never mind!

    Can you believe this weirdo is running for vice president? Only the most twisted, rebellious deviants would ever do any of the things listed above. Right, people?”

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  37. Red State Excerpt: “The national press found a new low on Friday after the New Yorker released a hit piece on Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s grandparents.

    Vance has long cited his “Mamaw” and “Papaw” as an inspiration despite their flaws, writing about them in his best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy.” You’d think they’d be off-limits in a political race given both are dead and hold zero relevance to anything concerning the current presidential race. Think again, though, because the following garbage article was pushed out….”

    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/08/17/the-press-go-after-jd-vances-meemaw-in-absolutely-disgusting-political-hit-n2178212

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    1. “Here’s how the piece begins. 

      Last month, after I published an article about the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate J. D. Vance and his fixation on the traditional nuclear family, I received an e-mail from Donna Morel, an attorney in San Diego. Morel is a fact-checking hobbyist—notably, she exposed major fabrications in best-selling books by the late celebrity biographer C. David Heymann.

      Yes, how dare Vance have an “obsession” with the nuclear family, which has been the building block of civilizations throughout history. What a weirdo, right? You can already see where this is going just by reading that line. The far-left has contempt for the normal family structure, and they wear it on their sleeves.

      No doubt Jessica Winter, who wrote this piece, thought she was going to be hit with a bombshell when this “fact-checking hobbyist” contacted her. Perhaps Donna Morel’s sleuthing skills would debunk some major part of Vance’s book, providing fodder for the Kamala Harris campaign in what is increasingly a tight presidential race. Instead, all the “fact-checking hobbyist” could come up with is confirming Vance told the truth. 

      As the New Yorker admits, Vance wrote that his grandfather was a “vicious drunk” and that his grandparents even separated for a time.

      Bonnie and Jim’s marriage was, at times, deeply troubled—in Vance’s telling, both of his grandparents were violent, and Jim was a vicious drunk. But Vance praises them in his memoir and elsewhere for sticking it out. Later in the marriage, Vance writes in “Elegy,” they “separated and then reconciled, and although they continued to live in separate houses, they spent nearly every waking hour together.” (The relationship seems to have improved immensely, Vance observes, after Jim Vance quit drinking, in 1983.)

      Absolutely nothing dug up by the New Yorker contradicted that characterization. Yet, the New Yorker chose to frame things as if some grand revelation had been stumbled upon.

      According to records sourced by Morel, Bonnie and Jim—Vance’s flawed but heroic avatars of traditional marriage—entered divorce proceedings twice. In the first instance, according to court documents and also an announcement in the March 22, 1955, edition of the Middletown Recorder, Bonnie, then twenty-one, filed for divorce from Jim on grounds of “extreme cruelty” and “gross neglect of duty.” Joseph Nigh, a family-law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, told me that “ ‘extreme cruelty’ is a broad spectrum,” and can encompass physical assault, verbal abuse, or “demeaning conduct.” “Gross neglect of duty” is even more of a catchall term, Nigh said, intended to be left to a court’s broad discretion. (Nigh spoke with me about Ohio family law as a general matter, and did not address the Vance case specifically.)

      That divorce proceeding (which was one of two throughout their marriage) was never followed through on and was eventually dismissed. Just as Vance has long claimed, his grandparents “stuck it out” until the end. One can believe what they want about the merits of that decision, but many would believe there is something valuable in reconciliation.

      What exactly was accomplished here? What news value was there in the New Yorker digging up this stuff up when the information shared did nothing but confirm Vance’s prior statements? We all know the answer to those questions, and I find the entire exercise disgusting and transparent. There is nothing newsworthy about any of what is published in that article. Instead, it’s a gross attempt at smearing Vance’s family for no other reason than providing some sick satisfaction to whichever left-wing elites still read the New Yorker.” 

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  39. “Stunning photo of the Perseid meteor shower captured over Stonehenge… Looks almost like a night over Israel right now…”

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  45. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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