Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Benjamin sent a message that a friend of friends needs a pool to jump in. We said we had a pool available for jumping. She came mid-afternoon and said she needed to make a tik tok video of herself jumping fully clothed into a pool. I watched from in the pool; […]
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 We cooked dinner with ingredients tonight. It has been a while. I am working on eating up stuff in the freezer – which so far since we’ve been home from vacation has meant eating the ends of bags of chicken tenders and fish sticks and random other stuff. Today’s item was
Monday, August 12, 2024 The trumpet Keith bought from a man in a parking lot with a truck full of instruments was united with its new owner – one very excited almost 5th grader. He did an amazing job playing his first notes. I was very impressed.
Sunday, August 11, 2024 Keith had a Metro Brass rehearsal tonight for the first time since early April 2023. I mentioned it to Benjamin and Sean (we were driving to see a middle school science teacher at his retirement home. He had been in the hospital for a long stretch and is stable and back
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Saturday, August 10, 2024 Benjin and Sean brought friends over to live the pizza oven life. The smallest friend was busy mowing the driveway with his own mower, so we spontaneously moved the party out to the driveway. It was a glorious 70 degrees, sunny day. Perfect.
Friday, August 9, 2024 My friend, Carla, is in charge of putting together auction baskets for her church’s fall festival. We went to Michael’s (crafty store) to look for bargains. We had a lovely time, looking through stuff that we could use and stuff we liked and stuff we thought was very strange. We zoomed
Thursday, August 8, 2024 Eight is my favorite number. Today is 8/8. Yay. There have been signs around the neighborhood advertising a free concert in Oxford Court (the next cul-de-sac down from us. They are alphabetical, which makes so much sense. Alcove, Bay, Circle, Court, Echo, etc. Our neighborhood is very big on cul-de-sacs). Every
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024 We went to see Deadpool and Wolverine with Alexander tonight. Alexander doesn’t see movies outside the MCU (well, there was that one time we were going to see one movie and realized that a movie that had gotten zero stars from the movie critic at the Star Tribune was playing, and
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024 After 2 inches of rain (and sitting in a chair most of the day) yesterday, I decided to get out among the weeds today. Being gone several weeks in each of May, June, and July (during the rainiest season in memory), the yard is mostly now weeds. Very tall weeds. I
