Friday, November 4, 2022 I was really looking forward to work today, because the boys’ soccer (football!) team was playing for the state championship at US Bank Stadium (home of the Vikings) at 10:15am. That meant most of the kids would not be at school for most of the day. Wheeeeee. Since the 9th graders […]
Thursday, November 3, 2022 Four big trees in the cul-de-sac got the notice this afternoon that they are going to be taken down. I want to say they are getting the ax, but it just seems too mean. It’s a very pleasant surprise that the city is taking them down and we are not paying
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 We started glass class tonight. I had so much fun making a paper weight that I was interested in doing more, or at least doing that again. I investigated and discovered a 6-week glass blowing 1 class. Each class is three hours long and based on learning to do, not necessarily
November 1, 2022 Keith and I have watched Halloween competition shows in years past – cake makers and chocolateers and punkin carvers create amazing tableaus in 6 or 7 minutes (oh, hours..). Impressed with the punkin carvers, and knowing Keith has been an expert punkin carver since long before everyone had cool tools and premade
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Monday, October 31, 2022 It was interesting how many high school students suggested that we should have today or tomorrow, or both, off from school because it is Halloween. I asked them how they celebrate – none (NONE) of those who had made the suggestion had any plans at all. They weren’t interested in handing
Sunday, October 30, 2022 I am thinking about going trick or treating tomorrow, because it is not going to be super cold out. What fun it would be to be out and not be hustling just to stay warm (I have a whole head mask and I am kinda short. I think I could pull
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Saturday, October 29, 2022 We were off to Minneapolis again tonight, this time to MN Orchestra and The Nightmare Before Christmas. I was delighted to see many of the orchestra members in costume. My favorite was Boba Fett playing mallets. Unfortunately, he wasn’t out yet when I took this picture. The conductor was dressed as
Friday, October 28, 2022 I came out of school and it was summer again! Sunny and warm and wonderful. After Keith finished work, I suggested we work on gathering some of the front yard’s leaves, to lessen the load on tomorrow. He zipped right out and started, while I continued to play Solitaire. I just
Thursday, October 27, 2022 I learned a new word today! Historicity means historical authenticity, as in “to discuss the historicity of miracles…”. I was reading about Ralph Waldo Emerson (simply referred to as Waldo in our discussions, because why not?) with an 11th grade student and I read historicity out loud and stopped. I looked
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 We went to see the musical SIX tonight. It is about the six wives of Henry the XIII (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived). We have seen it before – it was here before it went to Broadway – and loved it. This cast wasn’t quite as good as the one