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Monthly Archives: September 2018

Do NOT heat your boules; they might explode!

Posted on September 1, 2018 by Jules Lenoir
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A few petanque players in the USA brave the rigors of winter and continue to play with snow on the ground. Some of those players put their boules on some kind of device to warm them up. The moral of this post is that boules and heat do not mix.
Heating petanque boules on a stove
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