Here’s where you can count on me for a quick pick-me-up post from one of my 12 categories, penned in honor of us girls and that letter of the alphabet we’ve all laid claim to, G. My goal is to gladden your heart and add some glisten to your life.

Monthly Archives: August 2016

Young Cultivators Merit Badge: Outpost/Rocks and Minerals, Beginner Level

Posted on August 7, 2016 by mbajane

The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 7,050 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far—10,044 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! ~MaryJane

Wondering who I am? I’m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life…

For this week’s Outpost/Rocks and Minerals Beginner Level Merit Badge, I needed to learn the difference between rocks and minerals.

Mineral collection, Nature History Museum, Vienna. Photo by Dr. Bernd Gross via Wikimedia Commons.

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Posted on August 6, 2016 by maryjane

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Let us know what you think of our farm photo!

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photo-of-the-day

Posted on August 4, 2016 by maryjane

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Let us know what you think of our farm photo!

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From Pony Express to Priority Express

Posted on August 4, 2016 by maryjane

Last week, I saw on my “This Day in History” alert that on that particular day, the U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. (Have you discovered the “This Day in History” feature from History.com? If not, subscribe for a daily e-mail that tells you dozens of things that happened each day throughout history. Fascinating!)

That got me to thinking … what happened to our mail before 1775?

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