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After a scorching (38°C/100°F) Boxing Day or St Stephen's Day braai (barbecue) with the family the Atlantic sends cooling mist to break the heat

#photo
#photograh
#mist
#evening
#heat

A photo of a suburban street with street lamps and trees. In the background is a mist covered ridge with some trees visible through the mist.
There is evening sky above the mist

What did my kids' Elf on the Shelf trio do when they needed a break?

Read some silly Splatoon manga, of course!

I didn't post a lot of these this year, largely just my mini one from work, but this scene was funny to me. And the kids really enjoyed it.

Anyway, happy Friday!

#ElfOnTheShelf #Silly #Santa #Elf #ParentingMemes #ParentingMeme #Photo #Photograh #Christmas #GalaxyS24 #ToyPhotography #Toys #Manga #Splatoon #SplatoonManga #NintendoManga #Shelfie

A group of three Elves on the Shelf sitting together reading Volume 1 of the Splatoon manga. They are sitting on a white bookshelf with a row of other volumes of Splatoon manga behind them. One of them, in the middle, is wearing a cape instead of a hat.

My mini-Elf on the Shelf is no longer asking for obedience.

He is demanding it.

Watch out.

#ElfOnTheShelf #Silly #Santa #Elf #ParentingMemes #ParentingMeme #Photo #Photograh #Christmas #LetterOpener #LetterOpenerSword #LetterOpeners #GalaxyS24 #ToyPhotography #Toys

Photograph of a tiny Elf on the Shelf sitting on a ledge with a large (comparatively) sword shaped letter opener with runes all across the blade.

The mini-Elf on the Shelf in my office says "Hi" - apparently.

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Photograph of a tiny Elf on the Shelf sitting with a dry erase marker on their lap. They sit next to a much larger dry erase board with the "Hi!" written on it very poorly.

So, I have a "World's Smallest Elf on the Shelf" figure at work. This little guy will be moving around my office for the season. Today, I found him hugging a double bond near a carbon atom on my caffeine model. Happy Wednesday! #ElfOnTheShelf #Silly #Santa #Elf #ParentingMemes #ParentingMeme #Photo #Photograh #Christmas #Caffeine #Chemistry #MolecularModel #OrganicChemistry #ChemistryLove #Organic #MolecularModelKit #Chemist #OrganicChemistryMolecularKit #MolecularKit #OChem #Toy #Toys

Photograph of a molecular model kit that is designed to look like a caffeine molecule. A very tiny Elf on the Shelf figurine is hugging one of the bonds near a carbon atom.

It's almost time... #ElfOnTheShelf #ShelfElf #Toy #ToyPhotography #toygraphyid #ToysPhotography #GalaxyS24 #Toys #Photo #Photograh #FigureFriday

A white person's hand holding a very tiny Elf on the Shelf figure.

In quite the deft maneuver, the trio of elves yesterday first got the #ChristmasTree into the house during the day, somehow. Then they laid out some of the lights in strings to connect our light in the center of the room to the tree in some kind of shelf elf zipline.

Those elves are just wild.

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Our youngest two really found this funny when they got home from school. Having to solo put up the tree on my lunch break was worth it for that alone.

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Tags: #Parenting #ElfOnTheShelf #Silly #Santa #Elf #ParentingMemes #ParentingMeme #Photo #Photograh #Christmas #ChristmasLights

Angled photograph facing a Christmas tree in a corner of a room next to a brown, wooden bookshelf. The angle of the shot shows a string of Christmas lights going from the camera away toward the tree like a zip-line. There are two Elf on the Shelf holding onto candy canes along the tree light zipline. A third elf is just sitting in the tree. The remaining lights are strewn randomly in the the tree and fall into a pile on the ground at the base of the tree.

The #pond has small green plants on it, and the #photograh ed #dragonfly rather matches them. Image by MJ, processed by me. Not recent.

I found out that "Bloomscrolling" is a thing people do when they post flowers on #Fedi.

So, here's a cool picture of flowers I found at the #NationalZoo in DC when I went with the kids recently.

Enjoy!

Tags: #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Photo #Flower #Photograh #Photography