Tuesday, December 2, 2025 After Woodbury Junior High changed to Woodbury Middle School 15ish years ago, there was a potluck before school started gathering those interested from WJH. The group continued to meet every summer until pandemic – then we increased the backyard visits! There are now nearly monthly gatherings. Tonight, we celebrated 60th birthdays […]
Monday, December 1, 2025 I started a weeklong sub job for my friend and neighbor, Maren, today. She is in Costa Rica. Yay for a December trip with friends and not kids. She has left wonderful sub plans, with easy to access smartboard slides. That is heaven for a sub. She also left five cherry
Sunday, November 30, 2025 Our old driveway was only a couple feet from our neighbor’s driveway, so Keith had to move all the snow to our front yard. It was not exactly difficult, but it added an extra layer of thought to the process. He enjoyed just having to walk up and down the driveway
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Saturday, November 29, 2025 Donna and Michael were going to leave this late morning-ish to stay ahead of the weather. They were going to sneak to Menomonie in between snows and spend time at Emma’s. There didn’t end up being a between snows, so they stayed. Yay. They helped us (more accurately led the way)
Friday, November 28, 2025 I woke up last this morning and everyone was already having pie for breakfast. What a treat – for them. I wanted a turkey sammich. I waited a little while and went for it. I had turkey, lettuce, tomato, and mayo on white bread. That is my sammich. So good. I
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Thursday, November 27, 2025 Happy Thanksgiving. I could have started with that, but I didn’t want to forget that Alexander said, “I’d buy a pig named Oblong,” today. We played the game Wavelength where you are given two “opposite” ideas and a distance between the two that you have to get your team to guess
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Keith and I worked all day going through piles of papers and random collections of stuff that seem to accumulate readily at our house. We made some food for tomorrow. We watched Survivor. We did not play on our phones or mindlessly look at random stuff. It was a pretty good
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 It’s still November but we were standing in front of a beautiful Christmas tree at the Ordway. They had a staff member there just to take pictures. How thoughtful. I took Keith’s picture first, then realized the line had disappeared, so we got the two of us. (Look! We managed not
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Monday, November 24, 2025 We should be home from our wonderful trip to the UK and back to our regular lives. I had a mammogram today and thought I would take a picture for those of you who have never had the pleasure. I don’t find it awful, except when they say, “hold your breath,”
Sunday, November 23, 2025 We should have been flying home from London today, but instead we got to see both of our boys. Benjamin mentioned yesterday that he could use a box grater for Christmas. He said he has use of one nearly every day. In the night, I realized we have a box grater