Barbara Thompson

Friday, July 18, 2025 We were off to Anoka to see the Music Man (with a stop first to pick up Erbert and Gerbert’s sammiches for dinner in the car) tonight. It was wonderful. The whole cast was great, but there was a little (LITTLE!) kid in the ensemble who was outstanding. I couldn’t take

Thursday, July 17, 2025 We went to the black box theater at Artistry and saw a two-person show called Love and Baseball. Keith told me as were going that it was 90 minutes with no intermission. No problem there – I love not to break up the show. As we were walking in, after stopping

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 It was a gloriously cold day today! We topped out at about 65 degrees. Keith had the door open and the fan going as we worked on the pantry. It felt fresh and wonderful. We are a house of hot people. Superman told us yesterday to work smarter, and Keith certainly

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 I woke up hungry. It was about quarter to nine and I was cozy and thinking about breakfast when Keith came back to bed. He said he was going to buy a sanding block, so I immediately suggested he go to Ace Hardware – across the street from McDonald’s. He could

Monday, July 14, 2025 I read an article today about a kid who graduated from high school and his mom asked him to write to his aunts and uncles (it didn’t say if it was invitations to a party or perhaps thank you notes). He did it and returned the envelopes to his mom with

Sunday, July 13, 2025 Keith and Alexander have met here at the Indian Masala restaurant for the weekend buffet many times. I am not sure why I haven’t been there with them; perhaps because I am a picky eater or maybe I was just off somewhere and that is what made Keith look for company

Saturday, July 12, 205 Every summer for ten years the History Theater has presented Glensheen, a musical about the murders of the richest woman in Minnesota Elisabeth Congdon and her nurse, Velma Pietila. It happened at Glensheen, Congdon’s Duluth home in June 1977. I visited Glensheen in 1982 and there were whispers about the murders,

Friday, July 11, 2025 We went to see a show that was from the Edinburgh fringe festival. There are over a thousand shows that go on during the month of fringe, so I am not sure that having been in it is really saying much, or is it? There are a lot of people with

Thursday, July 10, 2025 Nope. This was not a winner. True, it won the Tony for best musical in 2023, but I don’t know why. I just asked my phone, “Why did Kimberly Akimbo win best musical?” because I had no idea. My phone told met that it was because it mixed sad and funny

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 Keith started his first new house project – building us a pantry out of the closet in the laundry room. Yay! We went to see Jurassic World: Rebirth. I flailed and almost fell out of my chair about a dozen times. I liked it. Yay!