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September 25, 2026 It’s 9/25! Get it? 9 2 5, Nine to Five! Dolly Parton day. We got stickers of Dolly today when entering the park. A LOT of people were wearing Dolly shirts today. It seemed appropriate that we visited the Dolly museum today – saw lots of sparkly clothes and fancy shoes –

Thursday, September 24, 2026 Dollywood was great. It was not at all what Keith was expecting – it far exceeded expectations for him. It was what I was expecting and was just as nice as I anticipated. The fall decorations were terrific! During the day and at night! There were hats and bubbles! There was

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 I’ll start with the end of the day, because it just happened and it’s fresh. The last two hours of our journey was three hours long. It involved lots of rain, flood warnings, then flood advisories, cars and semis with their flashers on going slowly (but not white pickup trucks. They

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 There was a fair amount of traffic out to west of Chicago, but things really got congested once we hit Indiana. What is that about? Whenever we were on a two lane highway (most of the time) it was just filled with cars and lots of big trucks. I didn’t love

Monday, September 21, 2026 It’s almost 6am on Tuesday. As usual these days, I am awake, wishing I could sleep. It suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t write the potd last night! Holy cow. We drove to Melanie and David’s house in Madison in time for dinner. We had Beef Butter BBQ that was

Sunday, September 20, 2026 The apples from Tom and Louise’s tree are fantastic. Yum yum. I baked a caramel apple cake for the Metro Brass rehearsal tonight and an apple pie for us. Both turned out well. Yay for apples!

Saturday, September 19, 2029 We went to the Alamo theater tonight and I saw this car in the parking lot. How great is that?! I would never think of that. I am so glad those people did and that they followed through and I got to see it. Yay! We saw Shaun the Sheep: Beast

Friday, September 18, 2026 At dinner tonight I told Keith that although I completely enjoyed our recent trips to the theater, I was not interested at all in leaving home tonight. No reason other than complete laziness. We left in plenty of time to get downtown Minneapolis to go to Minnesota Musical Theater’s production of

Thursday, September 17, 2026 We went to the movie The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russel Crowe. After the movie, it had a live stream Q&A with the director, Ethan Hawke, and Julia Jones (co-star). The movie was really good. The intent of the creators was to make an old fashioned 1960s/70s style film that

Wednesday, September 16, 2026 We went to Lyric Arts tonight to see the musical Merrily We Roll Along. I saw that the kid I liked so much in the Music Man (I asked for his autograph) was playing the main character’s son. Uh oh! Double cast for the kid. When he finally showed up halfway