Cami Ryan, PhD
@CamiDRyan
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Industry Affairs & Sustainability | @Bayer4CropsCA | Science Fellow | Chair @GenomeCanada SIAC | @usask_are | #agriculture #science | funny (at times)
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A thread 🧵of my threads 🧵🧵🧵🧵. Topics include (but not limited to):
✔️the impacts of dis/misinformation
✔️juries and multi-billion dollar verdicts
✔️predatory publishing & scientific integrity
✔️mythbusting
✔️what does ppb (parts per billion) mean?
✔️biases, human cognition
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Still makes me laugh. 😆
That time on Sesame Street when I charmed the children with my face popping out of an A-hole.
#theletterA
http://t.co/Hq5aCJHCQY
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Anna Kendrick. One of the good ones.
So, I need to give a shout out to the Atlanta doctors and nurses who helped me through my first experience with kidney stones when I was at my most vulnerable and terrified. Especially the truly wonderful ladies: Renee, Sandra, Muriel, Beverly, Ashley, Nina, Callie, and...
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I. Can’t. Even.
@neilhimself
Reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ode to Timelessness to His 100-Year-Old Cousin
“In the vast abyss before time, self is not,
and soul commingles with mist, and rock, and light.
In time, soul brings the misty self to be...”
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According to this, glyphosate is doing a pretty damn poor job of making us sick and killing us.
Not surprising. The molecule binds to an enzyme that ONLY PLANTS have. Humans don’t have this enzyme.
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Guess what? I’m a grandma!
And this is how you hold your new grandbaby during
#COVID19
#VirtualGrandparenting
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@JamesLucasIT
I took this photo in Barcelona in 2012. It is a photo of a large portrait painting that was on display in a gallery window. I loved the artwork so I snapped it. The building behind me is reflected in the window and the combination is *chefs kiss*.
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Knock at the door.
UPS person: “Is this your dog?”
Me (looks at Patsy): “Yes. Why?”
UPS person: “Sometime earlier today, when I was here, she must have jumped in my van. I finally noticed her a few stops in when she called shotgun and jumped in the passenger seat.”
Me: 😳🙄
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Glyphosate not carcinogenic, says EU chemicals agency
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“...the statement that glyphosate is ‘known to the state of California to cause cancer’ is misleading...Every regulator of which the court is aware ... has found that it does not cause cancer or that there is insufficient evidence to show that it does.”
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What can happen when you think you are working with all the information or you are being willfully blind to important information...👇🏻
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@JesseKobe
So many. But this one was particularly interesting. Came away with something different each time I read it... when I was 18, after I lost a child, after a divorce, and finally just in the last few years.
Life experience offers up different perspectives and different lenses.
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“Honestly, I’m a little frustrated that we’ve spent so much time, money, and resources reaffirming what we’ve known the whole time. And it annoys me that some ridiculous organization can make a false claim, spread it around the internet, and cause this constant reassessment.”
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I’m on the front stoop...it’s a balmy Missouri evening and the tree frogs are a-singing; the coyotes are a-howling.
I’m. At. Peace.
#FullMoonFridaythe13th
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👉🏻“Every one of us who is not a farmer is not a farmer because we have farmers 👩🌾 👨🌾...All the rest of us are free to do and be whatever we want because we don’t have to think about growing food.“ - Tom Vilsack
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Just a reminder to all…
👎🏻IARC is NOT a food safety body
👎🏻IARC’s review of aspartame is not scientifically comprehensive
👎🏻IARC’s review is based heavily on widely discredited research
Behind the scenes 🕸️ are individuals, activists, organizations, and litigators that
Welp, not only is aspartame associated with metabolic dysfunction, overwhelming evidence is pointing to it being a carcinogen.
Take it off the shelves NOW
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Brilliant. An award winning poem - colourfully showcased in video - by
@neilhimself
who dedicates it to science, women, and the hunger for sense-making and truth-seeking. Via
@brainpicker
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The fetishism of “natural” has consequences for the environment, for food security. Farming is and always has been “unnatural”. Eg, nothing grows in spaced rows.
You know what is natural? Disease and dying. And isn’t that why we have “unnatural” farming?
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I have a question: If Gwyneth Paltrow believes the WiFi causes cancer, how does she reconcile hiring people to manage her website and social media accounts?
@CaulfieldTim
#AWCwest2018
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Just now. (I’m not kidding).
“Mommy, I thought that GMOs are bad.”
“They are honey. But Aunty works for that big company and her family are farmers so we have to be nice.”
🤷🏻♀️(I exited the bathroom looking for “Aunty”. I must know her, right?)
#OverheardInAPublicBathroom
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How does a girl from small town Saskatchewan, Canada, find her way through life and end up working at the headquarters of a multinational crop science company in St Louis, Missouri?
This story is one part navel gazing (so, yeah, I might brag a little) but it’s also two parts
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Canadian ag lost one of its daughters,
@amyemathe
, this week. Like you, I find myself completely rattled by Amy's passing. I regret that we never met face to face, but hers was a bold, keen, funny voice we won't soon forget. My heart goes out to Amy's children, family, & friends.
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@JulieSLalonde
Related: I was a young scholar and had recently published a book based on my PhD work. Was at a conference and sitting across from an economist from France. Same kind of convo. (Same chap? 😁).
“You should read this book [mine]. HE [me!!!] has some really great ideas…”
🤷🏻♀️
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RANT!! 🤯
Excerpt: “Glyphosate is now the world’s most widely used herbicide.”
(You forgot to add “…because it’s the SAFEST.”)
This 👇🏻 is an incomplete and biased risk study.
1) First, there is no evidence that supports the claim that GMOs negatively affect health
2) This
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That time I painted something.
I need to paint more. It soothes me.
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“For the rich and well-fed to deny the benefits of modern technology is not merely anti-scientific. It’s cruel, it’s heartless, it’s inhumane — and it ought to be confronted on moral grounds that ordinary citizens can understand.” via
@washingtonpost
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@amandadeibert
Not out of spite but ... A scientist I worked for long ago told me: “Cami, you will never amount to anything because you are a single parent.”
I went on to get two degrees, including a PhD, while raising two kids all on my own.
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My daughter. Someday when my book of life ends, I know that she will be one of its most beautiful chapters. ❤️
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If you are Scandinavian and a mythology junkie (or neither) and haven’t already caught it,
@neilhimself
’s “Norse Mythology” is available on
@BBC
for another couple of days. It is absolutely wonderful.
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Went on an audition tonight 🎭 - the first in four years! I’ve been looking for the right production with the right role(s) since we moved to Missouri. I finally found it in “The Bad Seed” (no, it’s not ag related). Got the part! Looking forward to having a theatre family in 🇺🇸!
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Today I was officially inducted as a Bayer Science Fellow for
@Bayer4CropsUS
. 👏🏻
This is not only an honour for me, it represents a breaking through of “glass walls”…I am the first social scientist to be inducted into this prestigious group at
@Bayer
.
#bayersciencefellows
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We lost this girl yesterday. It’s really tearing us up.
RIP Reba 🐾 💔.
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The same tux? For more than one night? I’m overwhlemed by your self-sacrifice.
This man is a winner… wearing custom Stella because he chooses to make choices for the future of the planet. He has also chosen to wear this same Tux for the entire award season to reduce waste. I am proud to join forces with you... x Stella
#JoaquinPhoenix
#GoldenGlobes
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I’ll take “people who demonstrate courage, dignity, and self-effacing humour during a difficult time” for $1000 please, Alex.
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Risk = Hazard x Exposure
Glyphosate has an LD50 of 5600. Very low toxicity relative to other things.
In terms of your day to day life and activities, what other items on this list are you exposed to? And at what levels?
For me, 🧂 ☕️ 🍫 — I’m not worried. Everything in
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Even better than the cover of Rolling Stone magazine!
Thanks to
@GerminationMag
for recognition as a Top Influencer in the Canadian seed industry. It is an honour to be recognized alongside such an amazing group of brilliant people! I owe this industry so much!
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As I work side by side with
@TheCowboyCDN
on the (ongoing) renovations of our MO farmhouse, I’m reminded of what a gifted builder/finishing carpenter he truly is. I’m attaching some photos of his custom craftsmanship...
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I just started
#ClarksonsFarm
on
@AmazonPrimeln
.
I’m only 10 mins in and I’m (skeptically) optimistic that THIS docu-series may be both entertaining AND educational🤞… providing a realistic view of farming and ag.
Has anyone watched it?
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Gorgeous photo of moose in
#canola
field near Unity, Saskatchewan. Photo credit: James Fisher
http://t.co/xEVT4tCSWX
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1 part per billion (ppb) is equivalent to 1 second in 32 years. Yet, people will expose their brains to 3600 seconds of Oz’s toxic nonsense every day, 5 days a week, for weeks on end.
You can’t pee that out.
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So ends one of the most beautiful weekends of our lives. Our daughter,
@tanyaryanmusic
, tied the knot - and we couldn’t be happier for her and her life partner, Bryn! ❤️
This picture of her with her dad is everything.
#weddingweekend
#GainedASonGotAGoodOne
#FamilyIsLife
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@jonathanstea
The fact that we still have to remind people of this - today…NOW - really boggles the mind.
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That time at that EU conference:
Me: "Hello. I'd like to register. I'm a speaker/presenter."
Intense, young man: "Name, please."
Me: "Camille Ryan."
Intense, young man: "Dr. Camille Ryan?"
Me: "Yes."
Intense, young man: "You're a woman."
Me: "Last time I checked, yes."
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There’s nothing like a personal crisis to put the whole world in perspective. My very best friend’s daughter was in a head-on collision on Saturday. I’ve known this child almost all her life.
She will live. And we are grateful. It sure makes all the other things seem ... small.
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A long time ago, my daughter was going through a rough patch in a relationship. A family member was haranguing me for info. I finally had to say to her:
“Look, it’s just not MY story to tell.”
I think this way about a lot of things. So many stories - most not mine to tell.
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Why do we continue to misfire so badly on this? Urban centers/transport are ⬆️ contributor to emissions but ag (unfairly) bears the burden of it all. Is it just easier to blame the 2% that feeds the rest of the world because we can’t see them over the tops of our city skylines?
Andrew Yang confirms that Democrats are targeting cattle, says Democrats want to “modify Americans’ diets”
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@caromholland
Grade10 chem teacher to me: “Good thing you are moderately attractive because you won’t get anywhere on your intelligence.” 🤮 A boss from way back told me I wouldn’t amount to much because I was a single parent. Revenge wasn’t my motivator but success was just that much sweeter.
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Being sick *of*
#Covid_19
is way better than being sick *with* it.
Stay safe all.
#flattenthecurve
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Thursday throwback
#TBT
: single parent grad student. Tough times but good times...a lifetime ago. 🙂
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My heart and lap are both empty today. 🐾 We had to make a tough decision this week. RIP Dolly (2016-2022).
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PSA... just because some of us don’t tweet about a given issue, it doesn’t mean we don’t think about it, talk about it within our personal networks, or feel deeply about it.
Twitter is a great way to connect but we often forget that people actually LIVE LIFE outside Twitter.
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Guess what, guys? 🎉 👶 🍼
Congrats to our sweet girl,
@tanyaryan__
and her husband, Bryn. ❤️ I can hardly wait to meet this little one!
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We lost our loyal, 11 year old German shepherd, Reba, a couple of months ago 😢. Reba was the canine matriarch of our modest, rural kingdom; she was protector, and always good natured. She had travelled with us from Canada to Missouri. We miss her.
But guess what? 👇🏻 🐾
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My dad is 80+ years old and has been ‘cartooning’ most of his life. He still is. And I like to share his work every now and then...
#CartoonsByHowie
🇨🇦
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Only two options?
How about available, affordable, safe, and/or nutritious?
What is more important to you - locally grown or organic food?
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In 3 more days, I head back to Missouri. No more grandson snuggles. I’m really grateful that we got to spend the summer in Canada 🇨🇦. This is going to be difficult. I’ve left grown children behind in Canada but I’ve never left behind a grandchild.
Please send cheese and wine.
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I’m baby wrangling for the next 24 hours. 24 HOURS! The ‘rents have gone to Banff to celebrate the anniversary.
Tell me it will be ok. 😂
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I grew up living below the poverty line (yes, for part of it, no 🚽) and I‘m proud of my achievements and letters. I’m an example of “least likely” but pushed through multiple degrees, single parent, no money. Assuming that only elitists can accomplish such things is ... elitist.
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So many people get this wrong. Herbicides are, in fact, a class of pesticides. 👇🏻
—
Thank you for enlightening me, Brett. You clearly know so much more about this stuff than I do.
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GOOD NEWS! We are heading to the homeland 🇨🇦 next week for much-needed time with family AND that new grandbaby👶!
Of course, we start the whole adventure out with 2 wks quarantine😷on a remote ranch 🤠in S Alberta.
#FridayFunny
#FridayMotivation
#FridayFeeling
#FridayFunDay
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I brought two bags of Hawkins Cheezies home from Canada to give to the neighbour’s kids.
Yeah. Not going to happen.
One bag down, one to go.
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Who has the heart to tell these
@UofCalifornia
students that the sidewalk chalk (calcium sulfate) they used here has a higher LD50 (toxicity profile) than the glyphosate UC temporarily banned for use on campuses last year?
Only slightly higher but still very, very low, BTW.
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‘Just talked to someone who implied that research has absolutely no value and that people who carry out such research should “feel damn lucky” they have the jobs they do.
This person is also the same person who once told me “There’s no science in farming.”
Please share gifs.
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I just waved in a Zoom meeting. I always do it.
Am I the only person that does that? Is it weird?
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Question: if we really want to meaningfully address climate change through appropriate policies (and not just use political optics), don’t we need to include agriculture’s CONTRIBUTION to carbon sequestration in the metrics?
Asking for some friends.
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An inconvenient truth: ‘Homemade herbicide’ of salt, vinegar and soap is more expensive and toxic than glyphosate in Roundup.
For more context, check out this post by Professor Andrew Kniss (
@WyoWeeds
): 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 🌱
#TheMoreYouKnow
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Grand baby’s due date is TODAY. Me. 👇🏻
(Please add a funny gif - in empathy)
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“...organic farming does not use the best most sustainable methods. It uses “natural” methods, by some vague, arbitrary, gut-feeling criteria. So, for example, you can use pesticides, but only if derived from natural sources, even if they are less effective and more toxic.”
Organic farming has a sustainability problem — and now the EU is in a dilemma of their own making
@stevennovella
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“We had pesticide-free, grown without fertilizers, and non-GMO agriculture once... The result was an environmental disaster... Technology-free agriculture also delivered poverty and hopelessness for farm families across Canada. We can’t go back to those days.” - Cami Dahl
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.
@TheAtlantic
asks: If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
This response👇🏻 🤔😳 The reason she is able to work and live where she does is BECAUSE ag allowed societies to disentangle from the hard work of food production.
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“Everyone wants to know that their food is fresh, safe, sustainable, and that it comes from a farm that reads its corn bedtime stories before tucking them in at night. But killing the GMO industry would only force higher prices for less food that isn’t any safer” [or healthier].
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I’m at a risk conference in Virginia. I was asked this ❓question ❓ by a fellow attendee today:
Cami, how can you so vehemently defend glyphosate?
My response...👇🏻
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‼️ MISINFORMATION ALERT ‼️
Glyphosate was 👏🏻NEVER 👏🏻patented 👏🏻as 👏🏻a 👏🏻chelator. This, however, is a pervasive (and convenient) MYTH.
Let’s debunk it!
The patent
@jasondeandc
refers to is about PHOSPHINIC acids and their properties including as chelating agents in the
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the ubiquitous herbicide Roundup, was originally patented as a chelator back in 1964.
It bonds to minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium & manganese and removes them. It was used to clean pipes that had mineral buildup.
It is the most widely
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Just got to the farm after picking dad up at
#STL
airport. He gets out of the car.
Dad: “What’s that noise? It’s SO loud!”
Me: “Oh. They’re tree frogs.”
Dad: ...
Dad: “You sh
#tin
’ me? Frogs ... in trees?”
Me: “Yes.”
Dad: *shakes head* “I’ll be damned.”
#10DaysWithDad
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Today, I got to celebrate my birthday 🎂 (early) with the fam-jam in 🇨🇦. 🍰
Back to Missouri on Tuesday. 😞
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“In some ways, it is not surprising that many of the best fed, most food-secure people in history are convinced that the food system is broken. Most have never set foot on a farm...”
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"This was never about
#glyphosate
as a chemical. It was about glyphosate as a symbol, a symbol for opposition to Monsanto, pesticides, GMOs and a modern farming system which populist factions of different political stripes, led by the Greens, now love to hate."
@mark_lynas
The glyphosate saga is a fascinating case study in how easily politics can derail science, opines
@mark_lynas
. "You can still burn the witch in Europe — if the witch is called Monsanto."
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Years ago, when most of my hate mail came by email or snail mail, I used to “origami” it. And I got good at it. At one point, I had 40+ swans, butterflies, boats, and hats on my desk. Take something ugly and make it beautiful, right?
Anyone know how to fold tweets?
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Our road trip to Canada 🇨🇦 begins in t-minus 7 hours.
28 hours. 1800 miles. Truck. Trailer. Two horses 🐴 🐴. One dog 🐾. One husband 🤠. Send prayers, please. 🙏🏻 😊 .
The packing is done and most of it is loaded. Next on the to-do list is to eat all the things in the fridge.
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Not a bad place to quarantine.
See you in a couple of weeks.
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My grandson was born a middle aged man. Happy to see the flat cap tradition being carried on down the family line.
Gosh, I miss this little guy. ❤️
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