Barbara Thompson

Not Prepared

Monday, July 3, 2023 We had a busy day. Keith worked part of the day, we went shopping at several stores for party groceries, we tried shoveling things around to make the house presentable, we cooked and prepped food for tomorrow and watched Independence Day (the director’s cut or something like that. All of a

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Blackcaps

Thursday, June 29, 2023 Keith always talked about picking black caps when he was a kid. I thought his family had made up a name for blackberries, because black caps were not a thing I had ever heard of. I never said anything about it, because I figured if he thought the name was black

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Substitooths

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 In August of 2007, Gramma’s driveway jumped up and knocked out two of Benjamin’s teeth. Well, actually, it might have been me, because as he walked up the sidewalk, with blood dripping around his mouth, I said, “Did you knock out any teeth?” He paused, thought, then spit out first one,

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Stillwater

Monday, June 26, 2023 I have been craving a burrito, so we made a date with Mike and Mary to meet at Nacho Mama’s in Stillwater for dinner. My burrito was good, but I ordered shredded beef, then after it arrived, I remembered I like the seasoned ground beef better. Keith said I can set

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500

Sunday, June 25, 2023 Cheers to us! This is the 500th blog entry. I certainly never anticipated that happening. I thought we would write about Wales and be done, but then it was so much fun to do, I couldn’t imagine being done. I wasn’t ready to come home from Wales – I wasn’t ready

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