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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 I have been taking selfies a lot longer than they have been popular. I have long believed in turning the camera around on yourself, or even better, your group, and just shooting blind. Back in film times, it was usually an expensive waste, so best to just do occasionally. The dreadfulness […]

Monday, September 12, 2022 Benjamin has had an extraordinary amount of bad luck with car tires. I don’t know how many times he has had a flat tire. At least six times. More than six times, I think. He’s only been driving for 12 years. That’s a lot of flat tires, I think. Alexander has

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