Barbara Thompson

Monday, November 14, 2022 (Happy Birthday, Benjamin) We had a solid bit of snow overnight. Not a lot, by any means, and I set out to work with no concerns. I got to the first corner and sliiiiiiiid to a stop. Oh. I slowly made my way to see, encountering two school buses, a guy […]

Sunday, November 13, 2022 We were in a liquor store. 🙂 We are trying to reproduce a beer cheese soup we had at a restaurant, so we needed beer. The recipe called for Leinenkugel’s Red Lager. The store did not have that. I called my cooking, sometimes beer drinking sister for advice. We bought other

Saturday, November 12, 2022 Today was a catch-up, clean up kinda day. Keith had a rehearsal in River Falls in the morning and I had the brilliant motivation to clean up our bedroom, which has been looking decidedly stirred (you know, like a giant took the roof off the house and just stirred). Suitcases from

Friday, November 11, 2022 Woodbury High School put on a very nice program for Veteran’s Day. Teachers were given a nice introduction to read to the students before they went to the assembly. It explained what Veteran’s Day is, and what appropriate behavior was expected. I was extremely impressed with the students. Many of them

Thursday, November 10, 2022 We went to see Woodbury High School’s production of Anything Goes tonight. I enjoyed it thoroughly. None of my current students were in it, but I recognized lots of kids from having had them at Woodbury Middle. It was great fun to see the whole cast tap dancing to close out

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Glass class #2! Tonight, we weren’t just using the blast furnaces to heat our glass – the glory holes were on, too. They are smaller ovens that we can use to reheat or keep our glass hot. What a relief over last week when we had to go so fast! Everything

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 I was riding the Hulk rollercoaster over the weekend, and as I counted inversions (there are 7) (I always have counted, it’s pretty intense) I wondered when I would be too old to ride roller coasters. I looked around as I got off – Keith and I were by far the

Monday, November 6, 2022 I woke up at 3:30am with the hurting heel thing that I have sometimes. I lay in bed wondering how I was going to hobble to the park before 7am, wait until it opened at 8am, hobble to Hagrid, hobble back to the hotel to check out before 11, then back

Sunday, November 6, 2022 We got up at 6:30 and were out the door by 7:20, walking toward the early opening (one hour early for hotel guests – 8am). We got stopped on the path for quite a while as people had to go through metal detector security. We made it into the crowd waiting

Saturday, November 5, 2022 In August, a friend was texting me questions as he navigated his family’s vacation here. It put it in my mind that we haven’t been there for quite a while. I mentioned it to Keith. He said we had a Delta free companion ticket that we needed to use. So we