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Solved today’s NY Times Mini crossword in under 1 minute. 🤩

iPhone screenshot showing NYT Mini crossword completion screen with Congratulations and a solve time of 0:59
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We started watching Jungle Cruise last night and finished it tonight. We saw it in 2021 at a drive-in and was fun to watch again. Tyler is a fan of Dwayne Johnson movies.

Movie poster for Disney Jungle Cruise showing two adventurers in a jungle holding lanterns, surrounded by snakes, fire, and a riverboat.
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Upgraded to iOS 18.1 and took less than 10 minutes on the “waitlist” to get provisioned with Apple Intelligence. Looking forward to playing with this. 🧠

iPhone screen showing Apple Intelligence Beta setup page with Writing and Summarization, new Siri era, and Built for Privacy features listed.
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October roses at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

Lavender-pink rose bush in full bloom with buds, a white gazebo draped in white roses visible in the background.
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There were a lot of fall displays at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum today.

Towering pyramid display of stacked pumpkins and gourds in autumn colors on a paved plaza at a botanical garden. Small cabin-like structure built from stacked orange and white pumpkins with a dried corn stalk thatched roof at an outdoor fall display. Scarecrow made of birch branches wearing jeans and suspenders, surrounded by pumpkins and fall foliage at a botanical garden
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Mazie and her friend Faith made this incredible homemade Apple Pie. Will be tomorrow’s breakfast! 🥧

Homemade apple pie with decorative star-shaped pastry cutouts on top, cooling on a wire rack.
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Autumn.

Two people walking along a paved path lined with large trees showing vivid red, orange, and green autumn foliage under a blue sky. Shallow creek winding through a woodland of yellow and green autumn trees with fallen leaves and rocks along the banks Suburban sidewalk lined with fall trees, one blazing orange maple dominates, fallen leaves cover the ground, Harris Walz yard sign visible
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Nearly Halloween. 🎃

Hundreds of orange pumpkins spread across a lawn beneath fall trees with golden leaves at an outdoor pumpkin patch.
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This three minute video recap of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission highlights so many incredible achievements.

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Ten minutes with items from the recycling bin and I made a DIY “ramp” to place in our mail slot! Envelopes kept getting mangled and jammed when they caught on the bottom edge as our mail carrier shoved them through. Even worse, it left the mail slot open with winter air streaming in! Fixed!

DIY cardboard ramp made from blue painter's tape inside a metal-lined wooden mail slot mounted in a wall.