Barbara Thompson

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

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

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

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 We went to see the musical Cats tonight. It has been a long time since we have seen a live performance of it. We saw the movie – Alexander highly recommended that we see it. He organized a group to go to see it because he heard it was awful. He

Monday, October 24, 2022 Today I was being a regular sub, off to Cottage Grove middle school to sub for the orchestra teacher. Orchestra kids are always the absolute best, so that is why I picked up the job. Band kids are great, but orchestra kids rise above even them. First thing I did was