Barbara Thompson

Thursday, December 22, 2022 It’s Benjamin! He and Sean planned to come today, but then the big blizzard was coming and we told them to come Tuesday. Oh, wait. It was already Tuesday when we said that, so that didn’t work. We said, “Come Wednesday!” But it was late on Tuesday and getting ready and […]

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 Today was the last day of school before winter break. Keith dropped me off at school so he could use the RAV4 out in the snow today – it is always lovely to be driven anywhere. Since we had a test yesterday in Human Geography, today I taught the 9th graders

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 We went back to Hudson (no scary roads tonight) to hear the Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble, led by Keith’s friend, Jim, play a brass and organ concert. They had a fabulous announcer, Michael Barrone from MPR. The organist came out to play a solo piece and Michael was talking about those

Monday, December 19, 2022 We crept to Orchestra Hall tonight on the slippery, snowy roads. There seem to be too many slippery, snowy roads lately. There were several crashes (the electronic signs on the roads always use the term “crashes”. It makes sense – accidents is longer and probably doesn’t fit – but crashes sounds

Sunday, December 18, 2022 What a great day. We had a little present for Tom and Louise and asked to stop by, saying we didn’t have to stay long. Their response was come any time and stay long. We stayed long. We stayed the whole day! They got us a great new game, which we

Saturday, December 17, 2022 Yesterday, I got an update on my job. You will recall that I started off the year working half time – subbing for a friend on the days that chemo knocked her out. Those days became more frequent, and I added days to more than half time, until the start of

Friday, December 16, 2022 It’s been snowing for two days straight, so it seems unlikely that we won’t have a white Christmas. The temperature is forecast to drop to subzero (that’s below -18C, Sheila) by Monday, so this snow is going to be here for a while. We got a couple inches overnight and my

Thursday, December 15, 2022 SNOW DAY!!!!! We didn’t end up getting much snow, so we probably should have gone to school. Oh well. We didn’t. I didn’t accomplish a single thing except dancing in the kitchen to Christmas songs before making pancakes for lunch. Seems like a complete win of a day.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 *********Survivor spoilers! Stop now if you haven’t seen the finale!!********************* Tonight was the finale of Survivor season 43, and I cried. It’s been a kinda tame season – no one to hate, no one to really love. For some reason, the challenges have seemed really, really good, but for the most

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 I pulled out of the garage this morning and the grown-up snow people were still sleeping. These snow people are quite demanding. When it snows, you have to go out and clean them off, because they just grab up all the snow and keep it. Now, they keep just lying down