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Chicago Coin’s Basketball Champ. 🏀🕹️

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We completed “The Museum” at Puzzleworks today in 58m 48s. There is a whole genre of escape rooms that are creepy and this was our first that was even a little in that genre. We had a great time solving it with our nephew Levi. 👻 Room 62!

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Deep Woods Cabin Escape Room

Today we returned to Copper Cat Escape Games in Brainerd so that we could try the Deep Woods Cabin room. When we were here yesterday we were talking to Allon after finishing our room and loved his passion for Escape Rooms. He said this Deep Woods Cabin room was his favorite and we wanted to give it a try. We had a great time!

The room has a great backstory and you start in the woods outside of the cabin. Your first task is to figure out how to get in. The story is rich and the puzzles are just perfect. There is a wide variety of things to figure out. Your not just pounding codes into locks but have to really put the scene together.

We were completely immersed from the very beginning. We were challenged but everything connected together. I’m proud to say we completed the room with no clues and 13m 08s on the clock. There were several puzzles that made us smile as they came together.

We were very impressed with Copper Cat Escape Games. If you live in the Twin Cities it is a two hour drive and I think it would be worth it if you like escape rooms. You could book two or three of the rooms. Deep Woods Cabin is definitely one of the best, if not the best, that we’ve done in Minnesota. Room 61!

Three people smiling together in front of a rustic wood-plank and stone fireplace wall with stacked logs nearby. Three people pose holding wooden signs reading Found the Treasure, Recovered the Map, and Deep Woods Survivor at an escape room venue.
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I have multiple UniFi G4 Instant cameras mounted outside and this cold snap is the coldest they have experienced. Well below the -4° F specification. So far they are holding in there.

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At the Chocolate Ox for January ice cream. Melting? Go outside! -9 °F.

Two people holding ice cream cups and a cone with pink spoons in front of The Chocolate Ox ice cream shop display case.
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Lots of R-rated socks at Zaiser’s in Nisswa. 🙈🙉🙊

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Benefit of it being -11 °F? Easy to flash freeze a Rafferty’s Veggie Supreme pizza to bring home for Tammy’s sister.

Open Rafferty's pizza box with a loaded veggie pizza sitting on the hood of a car in freezing cold weather outside a candy shop.
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I set up a Guestbook for my site copying @jimmitchell who saw it at @alexwolfe site. Thanks to Guestbooks by meadow! The CSS is default. Maybe @mtt will want to Tiny Theme it? 🤩

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I could not care less about Tik Tok, and would consider it an upgrade to the Internet for it to be removed from the US, and frankly everywhere else. The fact people care so much is proof of its intentional addictive design.

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What you do when you’re Up North and it feels like -24 °F.

Four suits of cards fanned in sequence from Ace to Jack laid on a dark wood table with two players holding hands of cards. Hand of cards fanned out showing 8 of hearts, 7 of clubs, 6 of hearts, ace of spades, king of hearts, 10 of hearts, and 2 of hearts, with a card game in progress on a wooden table. Chess game in progress on a red and dark wood board, with dark and light wooden pieces mid-match, several captured pieces beside the board.