Thursday, December 18, 2025 I came out of school today and everything was icy. I had to use the corner of the snow scraper to break into the ice on the driver’s window and slowly chip away. The windshield didn’t surrender at all. I am not tall enough to get any leverage, and it was […]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Keith and I go to the Mall of America every year and walk around all day on one day and buy stuff. Sometimes for ourselves, sometimes for others. Today was that day. We had a great time – but we did have to sit on a bench a few more times
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Dan joined us in going to see Jeffrey’s band tonight at Stillwater high school. A bunch of other fun folks were there too! Erick and Daniel get all the gold stars from me for coming to all the concerts! I got to hang out with Adalynn before the concert while everyone
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Monday, December 15, 2025 We went to our first Tonic Sol-fa concert in April, only to find out it was their last tour. We enjoyed it SO much. They announced a very short (4 shows, I think) Christmas tour and we jumped on it. I am so glad we did. I am just smitten with
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Sunday, December 14, 2025 Last night about midnight, our very smart thermostat sent Keith a message that said the house was 5° colder than it was set for. Mmm. Set to 60, but only 55. Why do furnaces wait until weekend – one with the coldest temperatures – and when we are out of town
Saturday, December 1, 2025 It was -4° when I got up this morning, but that didn’t seem cold enough, so we packed up and drove to Duluth. Ha! It’s -11° (feels like -34°) now, so we are winning. In a dumb way. The big lake was steaming. It looked cool. We went to see the
Friday, December 12, 2025 I’ve been busy with working the past two weeks. Keith had a gig tonight, so I was home alone. I could have done laundry. I could have cleaned up our bedroom. I could have done a lot of things. I played this Christmasy version of the watermelon game. A lot of
Thursday, December 11, 2025 Keith built my coworker (no, I don’t have a job) a table to set her mini fridge on so it can reach the outlet. He is a good guy.
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December 10. 2025 Donna brought a beautiful bouquet of flowers on Thanksgiving, and they have been thriving. It was enough flowers to fill two vases. There were several lilies in the group, and they have slowly bloomed. It smells like Easter at our house, and it is wonderful.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 We had super light fluffy snow the other night and I hypothesized that you could use a leaf blower to blow off your car – now that leaf blowers come in cordless. Keith put ours in the car for me to try. It started snow-globe snowing midafternoon and I had plenty