Barbara Thompson

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Thursday, March 19. 2026 There was a place in the Maplewood Mall called Da Bin (Daa Bin?) It was closed on Wednesday for restocking, then everything was $10 on Thursday with pricing dropping to $1 on Tuesday. On a Tuesday before Christmas, Alexander went and got us each a ridiculous item. I totally surprised him […]

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KickStarted

Monday, March 16, 2026 I saw a Kickstarter for an end table that makes pictures automatically with a marble in sand. I thought Keith would like it. I told Benjamin to order it for me so it would be super-secret. Delivery time was a mystery, but hopefully it would come for Christmas. It didn’t. They

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Surprises

Thursday, March 12, 2026 We left Nancy’s and headed to Benjamin’s about 4:30. Bye, Nancy! We had a great laughing visit. We sat on the couch with Benjamin and visited for about an hour. The couch makes you face the front door with its frosted pane. I saw a shadow approaching and announced that someone

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Calm under pressure

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 “It won’t turn off!”“What won’t turn off?”“The bathroom fan.“That’s okay. We have a man for that.” (But he was gone picking up Donna)“But it smells like burning. It’s smoking!!”Ohhhh. “Turn off the power part thing in the basement.” (I am excellent with specifics)“I don’t know where it is, which one it

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Blurgh

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 I came up this morning and Keith was all set up for work! It was like olden days! He is talking with former coworkers about a temporary/contract/full-time/part-time/? job, so I actually thought he was doing work about maybe doing work. He was arranging a song for brass band. 🙂 I went

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