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Fact: Did you know that July is National Ice Cream Month?\u00a0 <\/strong>It’s the perfect time to indulge in the sweet treat, though you’d need a huge appetite to master the most giant scoop ever, which weighed a belly-busting 3,010 pounds.\u00a0 Created by Kemps Dairy in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, as part of their 100th anniversary, the scoop stood 5’6″ high, stretched 6’2″ wide, and was made of around 733 containers of ice cream.\u00a0 What flavor, you ask?\u00a0 Strawberry, which means that it was a pretty pink and looked as good as it surely tasted!<\/em><\/p>\n

The rain is gone, for now.\u00a0 It was pretty heavy a couple of times around 3:00 AM.<\/p>\n

We were up and cleaning the house early because it was time for our house cleaners to come, and we wanted to be neat!\u00a0 This logic sometimes fails me?<\/p>\n

I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it’s God’s way of washing off hippies. Mary went outside to make sure the doggy toys were out of the path of the rain.<\/p>\n

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Dancing in the rain?<\/p><\/div>\n

We heard the storm coming when the iPhone went off and warned us of approaching lightning.\u00a0 The iPhone started smoking and it flashed bright lights.<\/p>\n

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We had rain on and off all morning.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, after the cleaners depart, we will work on the new Hope Chest!\u00a0 It needs a slight amount of work, and we will clean it with Mary’s super-secret German wood wax.<\/p>\n

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A little elbow grease, and it looked like new.<\/p><\/div>\n

Did You Know?\u00a0 <\/strong>Hope chest history dates back to a time when families exchanged property and goods.\u00a0 The exact origins aren’t clear, but it’s believed that the hope chest provided the bride’s dowry items, such as any clothing and personal property, to help her begin her new life.\u00a0 When designed primarily for a future wedding, there was a good chance that a young woman’s hope chest would contain treasured goods such as hand-embroidered linens and delicate pieces of clothing.<\/div>\n

The rain was pretty hard mid-morning, and Scout enjoyed chasing the thunder off.<\/p>\n

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The rains came<\/p><\/div>\n

It was raining, and he was out barking the thunder away; we both got wet bringing him inside.\u00a0 He is a funny dog.<\/p>\n