Benjamin has four friends from junior high (or earlier) who have become our friends. We don’t see them often as they have all grown up, but it is delightful when we do. They and their families are the core of our 4th of July party. A few days before the 4th, one of them (there’s […]
Today’s picture of the day is obviously the cast photo for the upcoming Quiby series Pool’s Gold: Where’s Benjamin? They were filming in our backyard, doing some outdoor shots before moving back into the studio (this is all lies). In other news, we had a party, like we always do. People came. People brought food.
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Mississippi River Brass Band played their first concert of 2022 this afternoon. It was an absolutely perfect day – a few clouds, low humidity, warm but not hot. I remembered to let Alexander know it was happening yesterday, when another band member’s wife said her family was coming from Eau Claire to hear the band
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Late last night I heard from my sister that she and her family wouldn’t be coming today, because her son’s roommates tested positive and out of an abundance of caution for us before our trip, they are keeping their distance. COVID is crap. That was mentioned several times during the conversation. I was so disappointed.
After the pandemic started and we were in our house for some months, Keith started getting fluffy. Eventually, he suggested I cut his hair. We have a hair shaver/trimmer thing, because a gazillion years ago, I used to buzz his hair and the boys’ hair (Alexander pretty much went from a buzz cut to really
We went to see the play Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations tonight. It was terrific. The cast was absolutely outstanding. The singing and dancing was nearly non-stop; I can’t imagine anyone being fitter than that cast must be. The last show we saw was Moulin Rouge. We were very surprised
We finally got a chance to see Top Gun: Maverick tonight (called Topper Gun at our house, per Alexander. Speaking of comparatives, did you know there is an actor named Tom Holland, and an actor named Tom Hollander? It seems entirely reasonable that there is an actor named Tom Hollandest out there somewhere). Everyone we
Did you ever see the movie Sliding Doors? It stars Gwyneth Paltrow (not my favorite, probably because Pepper Potts is so whiney and is always telling Tony not to save the world, but instead take out the garbage or something like that. Also, I was really sure she was going to get Shakespeare killed or
Now the pool lights up. The man came today and installed the new light. The old light kinda filled with water, and sorta worked some times, so this is definitely an upgrade. It has a bunch of colors, but all of the blues beat any of the rest of the colors, because blue = pool.
My brother, Dave, came to our house the night before the BMW motorcycle rally started in St. Paul back in 2014 (I think). He and I Google Earth-ed the state fairgrounds (that seems like it should be capitalized, and maybe italized, the State Fair Grounds. Okay, maybe not) to figure out where he should pitch