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Sunday, March 3, 2024 Keith played flugelhorn in a concert in Hastings with the Sheldon Theater Brass Band. He had solos in three tunes. I have never heard him sound better. He sure is fun to follow around. The POTD is courtesy of Julie Bird from the cornet section during Keith’s rendition of the Orange-Juice-song-once-for-guitar-but-now-for-flugelhorn. […]

Saturday, March 2, 2024 Today is the first day of spring break and we had nothing planned. It was fabulous to wake up late, read a bit, then fall back asleep until noon. Noon! I have just been loving my job the past few months. The past two weeks I have been back in elementary

Friday, March 1, 2024 We’ve been talking about getting together with Dan and Stacy for a long time and it finally happened. What a wonderful evening of pizza and games. They brought a new Harry Potter version of Codenames and I really enjoyed it. Somehow while we were playing, the movie Muppet Treasure Island came

Thursday, February 29, We went to Minneapolis to see the play Clue tonight. We’ve run into Target Center traffic a couple of times recently, so I happened to think to check what was going on downtown. There was a concert at 7:00 at Target Center. We thought we should leave early, just in case. But

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 I realized last night that the points we earned from Christmas shopping at the Mall of America (we are still unclear on how we earned so many points without spending very much money) expire on Friday. They gave us three whole months to use them and of course, we are down

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Jeffrey, Johanna, and Adalynn stopped over to return a trumpet. We adored every darling expression (facial and verbal) Adalynn made. She is making good use of “um” as a conversation starter. She checks out what she wants and looks at her mom and dad and says, “um,” and they take it

Monday, February 26, 2024 Keith is playing flugelhorn this season and it is just strange. He is in the wrong place. But he is sounding terrific. He has a bunch of little solo-y bits and sounds great. He has one stand-in-front-of-the-band song and sounds lovely (flugelhorn adjective) on that one too. I had a companion

Sunday, February 25, 2024 Today is my sister-in-law’s and my niece’s birthdays and the day my brother-in-law passed away seven years ago. Such a lot for one family. I am thinking of you all, Karen, Marla, and Thom. Keith reported yesterday I had his coughing disease, but I did not. I had that plus a

Saturday, February 24, 2024 Barbara’s not feeling well today and spent most of the day in the bed. It seems to be the same crud I’ve been dealing with (that makes you cough a lot and just make you feel miserable). I hope she gets out of it faster than me. I’ve been on steroids

Friday, February 23, 2024 I worked a short day today. I got to school and Louise was already there! We have never been in the same school subbing before. I was very excited. I zoomed right over to see her in 5th grade. Fifth grade is hard. Louise is brave. We had Breakfast and Books.