Barbara Thompson

Monday, September 21, 2026 It’s almost 6am on Tuesday. As usual these days, I am awake, wishing I could sleep. It suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t write the potd last night! Holy cow. We drove to Melanie and David’s house in Madison in time for dinner. We had Beef Butter BBQ that was

Sunday, September 20, 2026 The apples from Tom and Louise’s tree are fantastic. Yum yum. I baked a caramel apple cake for the Metro Brass rehearsal tonight and an apple pie for us. Both turned out well. Yay for apples!

Saturday, September 19, 2029 We went to the Alamo theater tonight and I saw this car in the parking lot. How great is that?! I would never think of that. I am so glad those people did and that they followed through and I got to see it. Yay! We saw Shaun the Sheep: Beast

Friday, September 18, 2026 At dinner tonight I told Keith that although I completely enjoyed our recent trips to the theater, I was not interested at all in leaving home tonight. No reason other than complete laziness. We left in plenty of time to get downtown Minneapolis to go to Minnesota Musical Theater’s production of

Thursday, September 17, 2026 We went to the movie The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russel Crowe. After the movie, it had a live stream Q&A with the director, Ethan Hawke, and Julia Jones (co-star). The movie was really good. The intent of the creators was to make an old fashioned 1960s/70s style film that

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 We went to Lyric Arts tonight to see the musical Merrily We Roll Along. I saw that the kid I liked so much in the Music Man (I asked for his autograph) was playing the main character’s son. Uh oh! Double cast for the kid. When he finally showed up halfway

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 When Pannekoeken Huis closed, it was just the saddest thing. Luckily, a pizza restaurant called LaTuff’s bought their recipes and their chef and are bringing the food back for us! While we were on the band trip this summer, we were talking to Steve and Catherine about missing pannekoeken – and

Monday, September 14, 2026 I got almost home from work today when I encountered the birds. There were five consecutive yards on the south side of an east-west street covered in birds. Like a weird number of birds. Like more birds than I have seen on a yard. No birds anywhere else. I thought maybe

Sunday, September 13, 2026 We had a delightful boat ride with Kathy and Phil today. It was much cooler than yesterday, and very overcast, when we left home. I wore pants. I know I did, because I kept saying, “I’m wearing pants.” It felt like a really big deal. The sun came out, then went

Saturday, September 12, 2026 I start saying “last nice day ’til June” in September. It means it’s a beautiful day today and pretty soon it will be winter and we gotta appreciate the weather! My kids are verrrry knowledgeable about the last nice day ’til June. Go outside! I figured out yesterday that my body