Barbara Thompson

Sunday, June 14, 2026 Keith is subbing in a quintet that is playing at Wurst Brass Fest next weekend. They planned a rehearsal at Dan’s house to get ready. Dan had the great idea (that sounds sarcastic. It’s not. It was a great idea) to invite the neighbors and have the rehearsal outside. The quintet

Saturday, June 13, 2026 Alexander went and got two more little dressers from the ReUse place and needed help getting them out of the car. Keith went over after dinner. They moved the big, heavy table that will be the new laser’s home to the basement and got the dressers inside. Then there was a

Friday, June 12, 2026 Tom and Louise took us on an adventure to celebrate our anniversary. We went to the iFly store and flew!! It was pretty amazing. Our instructor, Donnie, taught us hand signals (it’s very loud in the tunnel, you can’t hear) and how to hold our arms and legs. We suited up,

Thursday, June 11, 2026 Joscho is a German guitarist who plays “gypsy jazz”. That is what the internet told me. I heard him in an ad on Facebook and said, “Let’s go.” I’m glad we did. As great as the music was, it was even more exciting just to watch him play. Keith called it

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 We were driving across Minneapolis to get to Theater Latte Da tonight, thinking about public art. I saw a couple things that started my thinking, then just a few blocks short of the theater, I saw this giant rock sculpture next to a small store, on the edge of their parking

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 We bought a season pass to ride on Paddleford boats out of St. Paul as many times as we want. We went with Mark and Carla today. It was tremendous. There is shade over the top deck and we had a gorgeous breeze for our 90 minute ride. We want to

Monday, June 8, 2026 The city people came along with a giant drill and a tree today. It was fun to watch. Our new tree is a Kentucky Coffee Tree. I have never heard of them before.

Sunday, June 7, 2026 No, not baseball. We went to a concert in the afternoon and a musical in the evening. The concert at the Phipps was on the mighty Wurlitzer organ. The organist said his day job was playing nightly at the Organ Piper Pizza restaurant in Milwaukee. I had never heard of it.

Saturday, June 6, 2026 We had absolutely nothing on the schedule for today, so I slept in and took a nap. I also read Mitch Albom’s book, Twice, because I couldn’t put it down. Keith completely organized a trip to Denmark for us. Then we played cards on the deck next door. Win of a

Friday, June 5, 2026 We met Alexander at the UofMN Reuse Center in Minneapolis. It is a big warehouse full of junk. He bought a new laser today and he was looking for a very sturdy table to put it on. He found the perfect thing. Win. He also saw some short dressers – three