Precocious Parker plays peekaboo. #Wordless Wednesday #Where did you hide my valentine Linda?

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each and every post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things I see on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, and so my blog is peppered with folks I meet, or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post that day. I respect and appreciate nature and my interaction with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. My career has been in the legal field and I have been a legal secretary for four decades, primarily working in downtown Detroit, and now working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in print journalism in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met and shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing once again in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy – hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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77 Responses to Precocious Parker plays peekaboo. #Wordless Wednesday #Where did you hide my valentine Linda?

  1. Anne says:
    February 15, 2023 at 5:17 am

    These are lovely photographs.

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  2. rajkkhoja says:
    February 15, 2023 at 6:07 am

    Have a happy valentine’s day, Linda!
    Beautiful picture.

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  3. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    February 15, 2023 at 6:36 am

    He’s so cute…look at those eyes and feet!! Sweet!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 15, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      I had a slew of photos as I took shots of Parker looking at me from different angles, but in the end just decided to use these two as they were close-up. He is a cutie pie isn’t he?

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 16, 2023 at 6:00 am

        I know what it feels like to have a LOT of photos to choose from. I think you picked perfect ones for the post. He is a cutie pie, that’s for sure!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 16, 2023 at 8:25 pm

        Will we ever get caught up on our pictures Shelley? As behind as I am on rolling out the Summer walks, I’m going to use my Winter snowy and icy shots first before I return to July treks again.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 17, 2023 at 6:38 am

        I don’t think so, and according to my hubby, he needs to order more storage space!! At least we’re never at a loss for ideas!!!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 17, 2023 at 5:54 pm

        You got that right Shelley – next month it will be three years of continuous Wordless Wednesday posts. I may never run out of fun pics for Wednesdays. I meant to put that about WW longevity in my blogiversary post and forgot – that’s okay, it was long enough. I think I should store pics in the cloud, but I’d probably still store them somewhere else … just in case. 🙂

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 18, 2023 at 5:54 am

        Wow…3 years of every Wednesday. That’s dedication, Linda, congratulations!!!
        I’m so torn about the cloud storage idea. I get it, but I also don’t get it so I’d do the same, keep them in multiple places. 😉

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 19, 2023 at 6:39 pm

        Thanks Shelley – I like doing WW as I can use extra pics or fun pics – I started in mid-March 2020. I usually acknowledge it in the headline. I had a horrible time with WP yesterday and today and last night I finally shut down my computer because I was annoyed. I was trying to put together Monday’s post and WP was in slo-mo and I know I loaded more pics than I needed as it kept halting and finally I was fed up and did the rest of the post, all squirrels, into a slideshow to get it done. That was this afternoon – took another three or more hours this afternoon. Then I wanted to do the WW post for this Wednesday from the Bird Count and had the same trouble – I switched from Firefox to Chrome and there were still issues. I just backed up my blog and I wish I could back up the media library but I did save everything on a flash drive but still. I think it is too large now to be able to back it up – I wonder if you can back it up to the cloud, like Dropbox where you can get a sizeable amount of space. I worry about cloud storage getting hacked then your pic/docs and/or card info is out there.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 20, 2023 at 5:58 am

        Oh, dear, you might be on to something about the storage. I think I remember one blogger who told the story of how her free WP account had a limit and her blog started to slow down because of it? Your older posts didn’t contain many photos, so now maybe it’s indicating issues because of it (as if WP has emotions LOL). Maybe try resizing your photos to smaller size and see if that helps? Or check out some of the addin widgets that help with optimization?
        I wish I knew what to offer as help!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 20, 2023 at 7:27 pm

        Thanks for your info Shelley. I have a fellow blogger, a photographer from the UK, who has had at least three different free WP blogs since I began following him about five years ago. And he has linked to blogs even before that. He posts several times a day sometimes, but at least once daily, plus videos (his that he loads onto YouTube). So I’m kind of surprised WP lets him keep creating new blogs – it is certainly nice of them to allow that.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 21, 2023 at 5:46 am

        Interesting. Who knows when it comes to WP! I’m sure you’ll figure out what works best for you to speed things up. Maybe it’s memory or storage on your computer? That was my problem, and I see how much it was a problem now that I don’t have a problem with speed. 🤔😂

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 21, 2023 at 6:30 pm

        About a month ago, I anticipated switching over to Windows 10 soon, so I spent an entire day going thru this computer and organizing it, archiving things onto a flash drive. Right now I’m only using 150 GB with 300 GB free. So I’m convinced it was a WP issue with that “list” that clicked on automatically. I could not remove the block until I got to the end because WP kept spinning with the blue icon and locking up. It took me forever to finish that post (which was already long). I set this new Malwarebytes to scan overnight, but sometimes I look down at the task bar and it has started up for some reason. But that was not the case. Strange things afoot. 🙂

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 22, 2023 at 5:47 am

        Yikes, that’s frustrating. I think a switch to Windows 10 might be helpful. WP is likely not keeping up their updates to work with older computer operating systems. That’s just a guess though.

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 22, 2023 at 8:17 pm

        Wow – this will sound stupid, but I forgot all about this slow issue and my post, which is still missing in Reader – I just checked now. They didn’t write back yet either and I don’t know if the followers who commented got e-mail versions or a feed service or just go to the site as you do. I made a grid of everyone’s site too because a few people got unfollowed but I didn’t unfollow them and wondered why they stopped posting. My angst traveled several paths today … just lost power for the third time and I had just put the heat on again after shutting it off … the wind had died down but there’s ice on the lines.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 23, 2023 at 7:01 am

        Man…Linda…the struggles are real! You deserve a break from them, I hope that happens soon!!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 26, 2023 at 3:57 pm

        They have written me back with suggestions, the first day I had no internet and I have to re-read what they put. I’m a little overwhelmed with catching up (at least on comments and replies tonight), but stranger than that, I am logged in, or thought I was, to my site and cannot access anything, so went on wordpress.com and tried logging in again – it was the same. As long as people see what I post, I’ll just get over it, but … when I logged on after my walk, Firefox had done an update … they do updates all the time. It said it had saved me from “X” number of attackers. I wonder if they deem WP an attacker? Years ago, before the VPN was installed to remote into work, every so often Comcast would do an upgrade and I was blacklisted from work. No words!

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        February 27, 2023 at 6:33 am

        Man, that’s so frustrating. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the issues will resolve sooner than later. Have you just tried deleting all the cookies and then relogging in? Sometimes I’ve seen that works (at least it does for some of the apps I use for work). One of these days, I bet it will just magically be resolved. Or you’ll finally get the attention of the Happiness Engineers and they’ll resolve the issues!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 28, 2023 at 8:50 am

        Actually, that was one of the recommendations, to delete the cookies at WP, as opposed to deleting my browser’s cookies. I read the info the HE sent me last night and was reluctant to do so. I felt overwhelmed by the three-day internet outage, yesterday’s intermittent outages and slowness and just ended up shutting down completely, a bit of a coward’s way out, but to preserve my sanity, I did so. Now I said “no walk” to try to catch up here, but it was lousy out, but I think of those hungry mouths at the Park.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 1, 2023 at 6:46 am

        Aw, man…I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 1, 2023 at 9:36 pm

        Well after I left work tonight I was troubleshooting with the Happiness Engineer for about an hour .- told him I’d do the caching on the weekend since I’ve never done it before in case something went wrong as he said browser cookies was better. Then he wanted me to screenshot what I saw in my “Activity List” in my browsers and send it to him, then a few more recommendations, then I went into “Managed Lists” and saw I was not following myself (for Reader) and I said I must have done a combo of keystrokes as I didn’t go in and unfollow myself. Asked if Malwarebytes did it or a Firefox upgrade – not likely. Gremlins at WP I guess. So at least that issue is fixed, but whether it will be slow loading photos onto a post seems like it’s another issue entirely.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 2, 2023 at 7:00 am

        I’m glad you were able to connect with the HE! I feel for you with all the WP struggles!!! 🤗

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 2, 2023 at 9:21 pm

        Well I tried some other things he suggested (a new HE) to me … did that tonight and I just did a Wordless Wednesday post and was able to move the pictures (resize them within the post) which I couldn’t do last week and the post did not freeze up. So some success there … so I asked if I still need to do the browser cache. Waiting to learn about that.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 3, 2023 at 5:34 am

        That’s great that you’re figuring out what’s wrong. I love your WW post, what a great photo!! Very clever, and fun leading lines!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 4, 2023 at 5:55 pm

        I actually was able to load photos quickly today for my upcoming WW post. I am happy about that, so hopefully the issue is over. I was at the right place, right time for this for sure.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 5, 2023 at 11:06 am

        Yay for the small wins for the week!!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 5, 2023 at 8:42 pm

        I’ll betcha they were doing some tweaking in conjunction with this new Jetpack app and that made other issues (like my Reader issue as well). I did the slideshow of lotuses as they looked so similar and I wanted to get chugging along in Reader as I was 18 days behind at that time. Meanwhile, I got all the way thru March 1st in Reader this morning, before I left at 1:30 p.m. to walk and shovel; now I have to go to Notifications after I finish here.

        In your post, the second one with the Cardinals and Squirrel, I could not comment on your site and had to back arrow and comment in Reader. Don’t know why that happens as I always just commented on your site in the past. That’s become the norm now for some reason. I loved the part of the bunny identifying as a snow blower and squirrel identifying as a cardinal. It’s been a long Winter in Wisconsin. 🙂

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 6, 2023 at 6:28 am

        They’re always tweaking something to mess with those of us who think it was just fine, don’t break it again! Yay – you’re making great progress catching up!!!

        I don’t know why that happens that you can’t comment. I’m sure I need to do some maintenance or something. Maybe this weekend I’ll play around and see if I can break it or fix it!

        I’m happy you enjoyed the post about the Cardinals and the Squirrels. 😍 Yes, winter has been too long and we got more snow over night. 🙊

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 6, 2023 at 10:14 am

        Well don’t play with it if I’m the only one …. I would hate to be responsible for you having MORE issues – yikes. It wasn’t always like that as I remember a few times when I made an exceptionally long comments on your site, then pressed “send” … it didn’t go right away and I thought I should have put it in a Word document instead.

        I did enjoy seeing that post about the Cardinals and the Squirrels. Poor critters and poor you with more snow. Enough already!

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 7, 2023 at 5:57 am

        Don’t worry, I’ll take the full blame if something goes wrong on my blog. I know I need to do some maintenance, hopefully nothing breaks!
        I’m glad you enjoyed the post 😊 More and more birds are arriving, so I think spring will be here soon!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 7, 2023 at 7:22 pm

        OK, if you say so … I (as well as others) can always go to Reader to comment. That worked great. I was shoveling and trying to get rid of the ice in the driveway and a robin was singing its heart out this morning. I am glad someone likes the ice and snow. 🙂

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 8, 2023 at 5:48 am

        😊 The robins are singing to tell us that spring is here and we’re done with winter!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        March 8, 2023 at 9:31 pm

        I saw a ton of Robins at the Park this morning. I had to play with the weather alarm this morning before I left as it does its test every Wednesday and it was still dark and I could hear a Mourning Dove right outside the window. The Robins looked pretty cheery as the sun was out and I saw a couple drilling into the ground for worms – they had to come up short as the ground is frozen.

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      • Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
        March 9, 2023 at 7:22 am

        All good signs that Spring is here! Now if winter would just give up, we’d all be singing like the robins!

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  4. peggy says:
    February 15, 2023 at 7:34 am

    This is so cute Linda. Precious.

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  5. Kate Crimmins says:
    February 15, 2023 at 8:11 am

    He’s a star and he knows it! Now where are those peanuts Linda!

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  6. Tofino Photography says:
    February 15, 2023 at 10:27 am

    Parker Peeks and Pouts when he doesn’t find his Precious Peanuts!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 15, 2023 at 8:18 pm

      Well your line improves my title for sure Wayne – the second photo Parker did have a bit of a pout going on as I took his picture, but I didn’t offer any peanuts until he was done “posing” for me. He is all about peanuts and treats as you know!

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      • Tofino Photography says:
        February 16, 2023 at 2:31 am

        he’s peanut coo coo

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 16, 2023 at 8:22 pm

        I hope he loves corncobs as I left six pounds of corncobs at the three stops, then took the niblets that were in the bag and left them on the cement ledge where the ducks go. We are having freezing rain tonight and then cold weather – I thought I might not get back until Sunday. They ate peanuts and seeds – no interest until the “fun stuff” is eaten. They are like kids with hot dogs or pizza versus eating their vegetables.

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      • Tofino Photography says:
        February 16, 2023 at 8:32 pm

        those mini corn cobs? I think they’d love them!

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      • Linda Schaub says:
        February 16, 2023 at 8:58 pm

        Yes, like I gave them in the Fall. They let them sit there while they ate peanuts and seeds … after the peanuts and sunflower seeds (which I take for the birds, but often are quickly grabbed by the squirrels) disappear, they’ll go for the corncobs. That one squirrel dragged his from the “community table” and across the grass to eat it by himself. Made me smile. I wanted some cracked corn for the ducks, but they were out, so I fed the crowd – everyone’s happy.

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  7. Barbara Rodgers says:
    February 15, 2023 at 10:34 am

    Parker has certain expectations, you know! Adorable! 🙂

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  8. Laurie says:
    February 15, 2023 at 11:36 am

    Precocious Parker peeking out, looking for his Valentine is giving you some adorable photos. I hope you did give him his Valentine’s treat as a reward!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 15, 2023 at 8:22 pm

      Parker makes me look good when he strikes adorable poses Laurie. I did hold out until I knew I had some good photos, then gave him some peanuts. I always have a little treat bag just for him – loose walnuts that he doesn’t have to share! I am such a sucker for those big brown eyes!

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  10. Ari says:
    February 15, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    oh my gosh! So adorably cute!!!!

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  12. Anne Mehrling says:
    February 15, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    I love your title of this post. I was amused that Parker’s claws appear to be painted blue. It could just be my bad eyesight.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 15, 2023 at 8:58 pm

      Glad you liked the title Anne – “precocious” is a perfect way to describe Parker. He was striking a cute pose, hoping I’d give him some peanuts. Well your eyes are not deceiving you entirely because it was a frosty morning and there are paw and nail marks on the blue metal bench seat where Parker rested his paws.

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  13. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    February 16, 2023 at 10:51 pm

    Cute as can be!
    I have a pair of old shoes on the front porch and squirrels have been putting tons of acorns in them. Hey, it beats having to find and dig up separate, individual buried treasures! 😊

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 17, 2023 at 5:51 pm

      He sure is cute Tom – Parker is my little treasure at the Park. He knows he can schmooze me and I’m a sucker who doles out extra peanuts his way every time. 🙂 I like that story about your shoes and how those resourceful squirrels have found a dry spot where they can squirrel away their acorns. I took them some corn cobs yesterday and they pushed them aside to feast on peanuts and sunflower seeds.

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  14. Ally Bean says:
    February 17, 2023 at 9:05 am

    Great photo, but look at those claws!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 17, 2023 at 5:59 pm

      Thanks Ally. He is really cute (and probably knows it too). I’d worry more about those claws than his teeth. I was taking photos once so I had the handle of bag I carry peanuts/seeds in hooked onto the crook of my arm. Next thing I knew, there was Parker scaling my leg as he tried to reach the bag … good thing I was wearing sweatpant with those claws!.

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  15. Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    February 18, 2023 at 6:54 pm

    Aww, Parker is precious, Linda! I could never walk near squirrels with dog Brodie in tow!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 19, 2023 at 6:43 pm

      Terri – he is the cutest little guy and likes being the center of attention. If he’s not eating and I’m paying attention to something other than him, or taking a photo, he stands on my shoe which he did today. I was doing the Great Backyard Bird Count … I was counting Mallards at the Ecorse Creek and concentrating as they were all over the place, so Parker was dancing around. 🙂 They don’t allow dogs in this park but people bring them anyway. One guy lets his dog off leash (another no-no) and he chases the squirrels and the goslings when they’re really young.

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  16. Hugh W. Roberts says:
    February 22, 2023 at 7:53 am

    We have many grey squirrels here in the UK, Linda. Our native red squirrels have almost been wiped out because of them, but I hear they are now making a comeback.
    Parker looks great. He must have trusted you to have allowed you to take pictures of him. I’m amazed by how they jump from tree to tree. Their acrobatics are amazing.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      February 22, 2023 at 8:21 pm

      Parker is a real cutie Hugh. I have been interacting with him for several years now and he is fearless (especially when it comes to peanuts). I like the red squirrels you have, plus the tassel-eared squirrels which we don’t have over here. I see the squirrels leap from tree to tree – they are amazing.

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  17. indianeskitchen says:
    February 23, 2023 at 1:51 am

    This is just the cutest picture Linda!

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  18. J P says:
    March 6, 2023 at 5:38 am

    “Yeah it’s Valentines Day, and I love you and all that stuff, but where are my peanuts?”

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