Barbara Thompson

Sunday, August 2, 2026 Keith drives, I ride. It’s our thing. I really don’t think he minds. I love it. I help drive by always watching, and then gasping or squeaking or shouting when appropriate (more accurately: when I think it is appropriate because we are in danger. It turns out we have not yet

Saturday, August 1, 2026 Alexander asked us to join him for lunch and a trip to Ax-Man. We said sure! We had lunch at Master Noodle or Magic Noodle. The sign outside says Master Noodle, but the website is Magic Noodle and the employees had Magic Noodle shirts on. Seems it was Magic Noodle and

Friday, July 31, 2026 Never be afraid of color!

Thursday, July 30, 2026 We had a great evening with the Wickerts! We had a great summer meal of brats and veggies and fruit and baked beans followed by lemon cake. We shared pictures of Danish trolls and cemeteries and enjoyed seeing some of Peter’s pictures from his (insane) biking trip to France. We played

Wednesday, July 30, 2026 I read that the word odyssey comes from the name Odysseus and his travels. That makes all the sense, but I had never put it together before. We call that a W moment – like when you figure out W is UU. There is nothing better than figuring out a W

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Somehow AllRecipes has decided to send me lots of emails. Somehow, I have decided to look at (some) of them. (Why does the computer want a comma after one somehow and not the other? I do not know. I might be able to figure it out, but I am not going

Monday, July 27, 2026 The Backyard group was scheduled to meet today in Jean’s backyard. It was terribly humid (the windows were even covered with condensation this morning) and temperature of 90 was expected at 10am, so we changed the gathering to the cafe at Byerly’s. That encouraged a lot of people to come, so

Sunday, July 26, 2026 The ventriloquist on the transAtlantic cruise had a very funny bit about orange, so I am hoping that the title today already made Kristine and Julie smile. We went to see The Invite late this afternoon. We were almost there when I looked at Keith, then said, “Hey! We’re both wearing

Saturday, July 25, 2026 We went to see the live action Moana tonight. We both really enjoyed it. We only saw the animated Moana once. I remembered the water was helpful and Maui was funny and there was a crab, so most of it was new to me. It was visually beautiful. The coconut guys

Friday, July 24, 2026 Today was a super sleepy day. We cooked a pizza for breakfast – a first for us. We’ve certainly had leftover pizza for breakfast, but actually cooking and eating hot pizza at 9am was new. Neither of us took a picture today. I was just sitting here wondering what to do