Barbara Thompson

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Alexander’s lawn mower has been broken all summer. He actually borrowed the neighbor’s once in May. He told us. Keith said, “I’ll have to look at it.” He didn’t. Well, he did, but he didn’t have any tools, so he just looked at it. Alexander has mentioned the broken lawn mower […]

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 It’s Alexander’s birthday! We went to pick him up (his power was supposed to be back TOMORROW, but they surprised him with mid-day repair today. Happy birthday!) for dinner and the GPS lady took us right through the middle of the 3M campus. Wow, what a void! We have been around

Monday, August 26, 2024 Daniel sent me this picture this morning and it was right on target for today. I read that Preston (?) Minnesota set a heat record with a feels-like 120 degrees today. The dew point was 86, which is crazy. I only went outside to go in the pool. A big storm

Sunday, August 25, 2024 We lived on the corner of Oxford and Sherwood for 25 years and a parade never passed us by. Oh, passed by us. Because of construction elsewhere (everywhere) in town, the Woodbury days parade went right down our side street. We walked up and chatted with the man who bought our

Saturday, August 24, 2024 Today was supposed to be hot and sunny and there was nothing on the calendar (after big band rehearsal in the morning). We had lunch and got ready for floating. Keith went out first and when I came out, he was floating. WOW! So, he doesn’t float. He bobs. He holds

Friday, August 23, 2024

Thursday, August 22. 2024 Metro Brass played in the (blocked off) street in Clear Lake, Wisconsin today. Clear Lake is having live music every other Thursday and our friend, Mike, resident of Clear Lake, asked Keith to bring the group up. Mike provided a delicious meal beforehand, and the band played a fun mix of

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Nineteen years ago (in two weeks) we spontaneously bought a convertible. We had been to Disney World in August and it seemed like we saw a little PT cruiser convertible at every stop light. Some rental company had definitely stocked up on them. A bit after we got home, it came

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 We call places that you could have been, but haven’t, the Void. You know, the road between two neighborhoods that you have visited but never had to go between them before, or perhaps an exit on the highway not far from where you live that you have never taken before. I

Monday, August 19, 2024 The girls invented a great new way to play with the corn hole game. Keith loaded up the sticks from a fallen ash limb and spruce tree trimming and took them away. We saw the movie Trap – a really good suspense movie that wasn’t too scary.