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ONE SHOT WEEKENDS

April 26, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Clare’s “baby” turned 9 years old. Mmm panda cake…

Destiny went on an ice cream date this weekend.

EARTH DAY RAP

April 22, 2021 by Clare Duffy

The Morning Scramble celebrates Earth Day by slinging some sick rhymes!

ADMINISTRATIVE PROFESSIONALS DAY

April 21, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Clare got to work very carefully drawing a bottle of glue–because she’s the glue that holds us together!

Eric pitched in a quote from Dr. Seuss that gave the card the perfect personalized finishing touch!

Destiny delivered the card and Loretta LOVED it! She sent us this picture. We thought she was saying “rock and roll!” But this is the symbol for “love.” Awww!

TASTE IT TUESDAY: VIRAL RECIPES

April 20, 2021 by Clare Duffy

“Crunch Snap Pea Popcorn Salad” from Food Network features all of your salad favorites: a mayonnaise dressing, crunchy sugar snap peas, celery…and POPCORN?! It’s strange on paper and frankly, kinda blah in our mouths. No one hated it. But no one loved it.

“Why would someone do this to popcorn!?”

“Banana Peel Bacon” is a new vegan treat. You marinate the banana peel in a soy sauce, maple syrup, paprika, and garlic powder mixture for about 2 hours. Cook in oil and viola! It’s sort of bacon, but sweet like banana. It was a big nope from Eric and Destiny, but Clare liked it.

A brand new product caught our eye: “Johnsonville Sausage Strips.” That sausage taste with the fun shape of bacon! This was a bit of a let down. We expected to love this, but it mostly tastes like dry sausage.

WE FIXED TASTE IT TUESDAY! If you combine bits of sausage strips into the popcorn salad, you get something that’s a vast improvement on what they were separately.

ONE SHOT WEEKENDS

April 19, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Before hosting Time For Art with United Way of East Central Iowa, Eric found a stairway perfect for “senior picture” posing!

Clare challenged her hubby Nick to a little game of chess even though she’s never played and has only seen “The Queen’s Gambit.”

After a long weekend of spring cleaning, Destiny finally sat down to relax by the fire.

TASTE IT TUESDAY: COFFEE AND POP

April 13, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Coke with Coffee has the sweetness of coke, but with a bitter coffee aftertaste. It wasn’t the best thing we’ve ever tried, but certainly not the worst.

Destiny was excited to add Root Beer to coffee. The coffee and the Root Beer managed to both taste watered down. Yuck.

Clare thought the 23 flavors of Dr Pepper would be delightful in coffee. Turns out Dr Pepper was right to stop at 23; adding the 24th flavor of coffee was not great.

Eric chose to have us try ‘Mt. Dew Major Melon’ in our coffee. It was VERY not good.

ONE SHOT WEEKENDS

April 12, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Eric and his wife Shannon said ‘Cheers’ to 25 years with, perhaps, the world’s largest gin and tonic!

Clare did a little “retail therapy” this weekend. Don’t worry, she and her kids were yelled at for trying on hats right after this photo was taken.

Destiny and her sisters got together for game night this weekend. Destiny had to draw a person, activity, and location. Any guesses what those are? If you can’t tell… Destiny is horrible at drawing.

MORNING SCRAMBLE DRIVE-THRU YARD SALE

April 9, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Mandatory spring cleaning at Z102.9 turned up some unexpected treasures. These items will be perfect for a yard sale!

SPRING CLEANING

April 7, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Now, this can of Aqua-net was a gift from the American Heart Association for hosting their 80’s themed Heart Ball. It includes a scrunchie and unused comb, which make it a quality item, but Eric doesn’t need a whole lot of hairspray up top.

Clare loves this little fascinator she crafted for the royal wedding back in the day. It’s a great hat, but if you haven’t worn it in over a year AND it’s molting, it’s probably time to let it go.

Eric found something called “Lube Stick” which likely needs to be thrown away. But this autographed can of Busch Light from Carson King might actually be worth something. Morning Scramble listeners say keep this for a yard sale!

Clare is super proud of this collection of puppets she hand-crafted. It’s a full set: Garby, Yardy, and Curby. This is a keep because they are too dangerous for a child to play with. Perhaps a museum will call someday and want to display them?

TASTE IT TUESDAY: EASTER LEFTOVERS

April 6, 2021 by Clare Duffy

Easterritos take all of the Easter leftovers and plops them on a flour tortilla.

Honestly, we did not think these would be good. But they are a taste sensation!! Creamy mashed potatoes, salty green beans, and everybody loves ham.

Eric created a brand new food to use up those leftover jellybeans: Easter Nachos. It’s popcorn, jellybeans, and melted candy melts.

Eric’s personal shopper and wife, Shannon, accidentally grabbed lemon flavored candy melts, so the lemony taste was not a hit for Destiny, but this could be a great way to get the kids excited about eating up jelly beans after Easter.

Clare’s trick to use up chocolate candy is to chop up candy bars and put them min a chocolate chip cookie.

She got a little too fancy and made the batter of the cookie chocolate too, so there’s almost too much chocolate flavor here, but a solid effort to eat up those candy bars.