Tuesday, April 1, 2025 I worked with 8th graders today and not one kid tried any kind of April Fool’s joke. Huh. I was scheduled to give blood at a church at 3:45 at a church a couple of miles away. I suggested Keith come to pick me up afterwards and take me to Tono’s […]
Monday, March 31, 2025 There was a ghost on our pool this morning. Woooooooo. Alexander came over for dinner and taxes. He brought his splurge purchase of 2024 – a rice cooker. It made rice better than the stove does. We watched Chopped together like the older days. Such fun.
Sunday, March 30, 2025 Surprise! We are moving! Yes, we put in an offer on the house next door this morning and it was accepted. We have been seeeeeriouuuussssly considering it all week. We had a great conversation with Maren and Rob about buying our house, then we laboriously tried to figure out (together) what
Saturday, March 29, 2025 Keith got me a thing called a BedJet for Christmas. It is a box with a tube to a sheet. The box sits at the end of your bed, the tube goes up to the sheet on your bed. When you remote control it on heat, it warms up your bed
Friday, March 28, 2025 Metro Brass had a concert at the Hastings Arts Center tonight. We were so lucky that so many, many of our friends and family came to the show. Donna, Michael, Emma, Levi, Benjamin, Sean, David, and Adam all drove up to be there. The audience was really appreciative! Last summer I
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Thursday, March 27, 2025 It was a beautiful, warm evening in downtown St. Paul tonight as we walked to the History Theater to see Secret Warriors. It is just so pleasant to walk outside without giving any consideration to the weather. Secret Warriors was about Japanese American soldiers who served as translators and interpreters during
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Keith’s Metro Brass concert is coming up in two days! Eight family members are coming from Wisconsin, so we went grocery shopping in advance. We are excited and ready!
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Keith got a call a bit ago to sub with Star of the North Jazz Orchestra at Beast BBQ in Minneapolis. It just seems like a great idea to play some big band and eat BBQ, doesn’t it?
Monday, March 24, 2025 We went to Sue and Peter’s for game night tonight. We played the Game of Life. Sue said she picked out a couple old games to choose from – things that did not take concentration so we could chat. We had to refresh by reading from the rules several times. We
Sunday, March 23, 2025 I heard several real people stories, radio comments, FB tales about February 2020 lately, that all end with ..then March 2020 happened and everything changed. It seems like a really long time ago, and 15 minutes. I was thinking about how much I know I don’t remember, and it occurred to