Barbara Thompson

Stickers

Friday, August 9, 2024 My friend, Carla, is in charge of putting together auction baskets for her church’s fall festival. We went to Michael’s (crafty store) to look for bargains. We had a lovely time, looking through stuff that we could use and stuff we liked and stuff we thought was very strange. We zoomed […]

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Cul-de-sac Concert

Thursday, August 8, 2024 Eight is my favorite number. Today is 8/8. Yay. There have been signs around the neighborhood advertising a free concert in Oxford Court (the next cul-de-sac down from us. They are alphabetical, which makes so much sense. Alcove, Bay, Circle, Court, Echo, etc. Our neighborhood is very big on cul-de-sacs). Every

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Busy day

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 After 2 inches of rain (and sitting in a chair most of the day) yesterday, I decided to get out among the weeds today. Being gone several weeks in each of May, June, and July (during the rainiest season in memory), the yard is mostly now weeds. Very tall weeds. I

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Pooling

Sunday, August 4, 2024 This has certainly not been a summer for pooling. Too rainy, too cold, too gone. It got sunny by noon and Donna, Emma, and I were in the pool while the men waited to cook hamburgers. We had a lovely lunch, then they headed out. It’s always pretty great when the

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Jushkas!

Saturday, August 3, 2024 Donna called on Thursday to say she was in Menomonie at Emma’s house. She rode back from the shower trip with Emma, and they were going to paint the bathroom. She was considering taking the train home, or Michael would come to get her. I said train, but she gets very

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Barry Manilow!

Friday, August 2, 2024 We parked in our usual not-so-close parking ramp and were walking to the concert when I asked, “Where are we sitting?” I kind of expected Keith not to know, because you just get what you can get and figure it out when you arrive. He said, “on the main floor.” I

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