Barbara Thompson

Sunday, September 11, 2022 It’s like Batman Returns, but completely different in every way. It’s Keith’s brass tentet, which became an eleventet, and is now a fourteentet, and they had a rehearsal tonight for the first time in three years. Woohooo! They sounded pretty good! I was reading a history text book and listening. I […]

Saturday, September 10, 2022 Oh why, oh why, oh why? Why are the pool frogs so scary? I didn’t even know I was afraid of frogs. I don’t think I used to be afraid of frogs. Our first summer here, we had frogpocalyse – we pulled over 500 dead little frogs out of the pool.

Friday, September 9, 2022 I had to go to the school district office today to get my new ID badge. As I drove the road between Woodbury and Cottage Grove, I passed a turkey standing right on the edge of the road. Turkeys are so weird, because they are food, but sometimes they are on

Thursday, September 8, 2022 Alexander sent a message that he had heard the family was gathering with the Queen and I was sitting at my computer, looking for information when the Royal Family’s facebook page changed. What a sad moment. She welcomed a new prime minister two days ago, and today she is gone. How

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 I could not get to sleep last night – my brain would not rest, so the rest of me could not rest. Nonetheless, I woke up three minutes before my alarm. I considered skipping swimming my loops and dozing off for another half hour, but I firmly reminded myself that I

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 School year, that is. I like that I get two fresh-start-feeling times per year. I went to bed earlier than usual (meaning it was before midnight), but unfortunately then woke up earlier than usual – about 5 hours earlier. I thought about a lot of things (and tried not to) from

Monday, September 5, 2022 Happy Labor day – or as it is known in teacher-ing circles, the last day of summer. Keith tried to actually do some yard work, but I hassled him into going in the pool with me. I was yammering on about something while I was floating and when I looked at

We always have a bocce ball tournament on the 4th of July, but this year things went a bit differently because Keith had a concert that evening and the party broke up early. We had our championship prizes – which were still on the refrigerator – so yesterday I thought I would try to gather

Saturday, September 3, 2022 Keith went to a new ENT yesterday. He went to her because he could get an appointment in less than 6 weeks. He has seen many, many ENTs and always hopes that the next one will have some ideas about how to fix his head. He’s had a few with some

Keith wanted a burger, so we went to Culver’s. We agreed that we would just order whatever we wanted. That is usually Keith’s way, but I have to calculate cost and stomach space and healthy (yes, I know…it is fast food) and think a lot. We had a coupon for BOGO double cheese burgers. I