Barbara Thompson

Busy day

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 After 2 inches of rain (and sitting in a chair most of the day) yesterday, I decided to get out among the weeds today. Being gone several weeks in each of May, June, and July (during the rainiest season in memory), the yard is mostly now weeds. Very tall weeds. I […]

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Pooling

Sunday, August 4, 2024 This has certainly not been a summer for pooling. Too rainy, too cold, too gone. It got sunny by noon and Donna, Emma, and I were in the pool while the men waited to cook hamburgers. We had a lovely lunch, then they headed out. It’s always pretty great when the

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Jushkas!

Saturday, August 3, 2024 Donna called on Thursday to say she was in Menomonie at Emma’s house. She rode back from the shower trip with Emma, and they were going to paint the bathroom. She was considering taking the train home, or Michael would come to get her. I said train, but she gets very

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Barry Manilow!

Friday, August 2, 2024 We parked in our usual not-so-close parking ramp and were walking to the concert when I asked, “Where are we sitting?” I kind of expected Keith not to know, because you just get what you can get and figure it out when you arrive. He said, “on the main floor.” I

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Such good eating

Monday, July 29, 2024 I indulged in a few cookies for breakfast. We went to John’s Root Beer stand for lunch. It was raining, but we scored a table under the eaves. We had our dogs (chili, sloppy joe, and sauerkraut), plus cheese curds and ultimate fries (chili, cheese, onions, and jalapenos), regular and diet

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Happy Shower

Sunday, July 28, 2024 It was my niece Liz’s bridal shower today. We played very fun games – getting points for things on our phones (like Let’s Make a Deal, but with phones!), passing flowers around to those with given attributes, and the classic remembering things on a tray (or were they on the tray?).

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