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You got a lot done! Yeah, the downside of having lists is that there is usually always new things being added so they never really get completed.

interesting comment about you feeling unsettled. I wouldn't have guessed that about you.

Greetings all

It is cool and overcast. My day started early as house cleaner wanted to come at 9 and I also had a studio zoom board meeting at 9. There was important business regarding the reallocation of the glass studio space. It hardly ever gets used and more space is needed for ceramics. The board is good with this - even the one glass worker - so it will proceed. One of the glass studio users is throwing a huge tantrum and sending all kinds of letters and texts with all kinds of emotional but non business like arguments. So we will have a follow up with the displaced persons but it is a done deal. We are just decreasing the space they can use; not eliminating it. So the tempest is not over but the teapot has been put away.

Yeah DD sitting in summer shade is the best. Glad you have lots of it. And a cozy place to sit while the kids run around. Hide and seek is still a thing? Sounds very fun to sit and watch. Hmmm musical based on a true murder? Well why not. I vividly remember the Charles Starkweather murders from about 1957. There have been books and movies about those. 13 killed I think. But I am not sure it could be set to music.

Paula I am impressed that your church has a garden. Great idea. More churches need this. Good on you for all your volunteers stuff.

Peps don't forget that all the stuff on your list would not be there if you still had a job. Lots is stuff that just does not happen. We need to add self care stuff to our lists such as playing video games, watching murder mysteries and eating popcorn. Hope your Dad's transition goes well.

So as soon as I get dressed I will go walk at the gym and then go to the studio. Always more to do there.

Liz glad you completed the memorial task with deceased DH. Sounds perfect. Enjoy the beach but no sharks please. We have great whites out here too.

No clue on dinner tonight. All the dental drama yesterday was remarkably uneventful. I had a boat load of fillings but this dentist is skilled and quick. Also I took drugs. The dog dentistry was only about $200 less than mine. Oh well. Tesla is subdued but she did eat her dinner of rice and ground chicken. The medication is another matter......

Diane S

I am a slug in comparison! I did do a few things this morning, but it is noon and I'm still in my jammies. Not normal, but since it raining I decided to wait and see if DH wants to go workout with me since he can't ride his bike. If he doesn't I might go shopping instead. Different outfits are required.

Right? DH thought the same thing. It's the History Theater, and they do plays about Minnesota History, so far, always in good taste. But this is a notorious, sordid story. An aged heiress was smothered in her bed by her son in law. Sadly, her night nurse was killed also. The night nurse was a friend of my Grandma's. :( So the daughter and her husband conspired to kill a 98 year old woman to hasten their inheritance. The mansion where this happened was gifted to the U of M, and a couple of years later it was opened for tours. In the beginning, the docents would under no cir****tances discuss the murders out of respect for the survivors. 40 years later, they do one tour about the crime. The mansion, Glensheen, itself it so worth touring as it sits on Lake Superior and is grand and very charming at the same time.

Your day sounds so lovely and fitting Liz. I love the detail of toasting with DH's typical snack. I'm wondering if any of your children became sailors?

I love the chart idea. I may need to adapt that. My niece did something along those lines. Everyone in the family was assigned a different color marker, and then wrote on the same poster 5 things they want to do this summer. The littlest guy wrote play with my brother as one of his choices. Aww.

Paula we have yet to make it out to kayak! First the spring was so cool, and now every time we carve out a time to do it, it's raining or threatening rain. Maybe Friday.

All the rain has yielded a tropical leaf canopy here. It is so lush and green. The leaves are so dense I sometimes have to turn on the lights in the house, even on a sunny day. We have more fireflies too. I think they need damp vegetation, like leaves, on the ground. And I saw a monarch butterfly near my milkweed plants, and it looks like there might be some eggs on leaves. We'll see if any caterpillars hatch.

I had an encouraging workout yesterday. I felt like I wasn't making a lot of progress, but yesterday I was able to increase the weight on every machine. And I noticed it is easier now to squat and stay squatting for awhile when I'm gardening and doing chores. Much easier on the back.

BFFs grandchildren are here. They came over yesterday around noon and had a sleepover. It's non stop energy! We played at the park, watched a movie, ran in the sprinkler, used the hot tub, and had a bonfire. Today they are playing hide and seek in the yard, while we sit on the porch and supervise. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go workout again just to rest!

If it doesn't rain, overcast right now, I may also go to the little farmers market in my town. Its kind of fun, although we are a suburb, we started out as a little farming town, so we still have a historic downtown. It's not much, just a couple blocks, and really, the only reason we went there initially was the post office. But in the last 10 years or so, A few boutiques and restaurants opened, making it more of a destination.

This weekend, we are going to a 40th Anniversary Party of college friends. We were all dating at the same time and I remember their wedding very well. DH and I will celebrate 38 years this August. And my birthday is on Sunday. DH and I have tickets to a local musical based on a notorious murder in Duluth in 1979. Then out to dinner. On Monday, the 28th, Operation Downstairs Bedroom takes place at my parents. Maybe. I'll believe it when it actually happens.