Thank You to My Sister and Friends

It all began with my wanting to play When I’m Sixty-Four for my birthday dinner last March. I found the sheet music online for a small fee. I also found FREE music. Wow. That pile grew to include favorites like Home on the Range, Simple Gifts, Amazing Grace and even a couple opera arias. Then my friend Dianne sent this Disney song book for the clarinet. Starting with When You Wish upon a Star, I …

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Stacking Wood

Kind people have been cutting and splitting wood for the winter. Loyal drives up a trailer of wood, and I stack it. The wood shed is filling up. Monday I emptied a trailer and abracadabra! Another one appeared Since rain was forecast Monday night, I covered the wood with tin This morning was cool and relatively bug-free so I started in stacking. Progress! The oldest lightest wood and new kindling are almost at two ricks …

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Bill Holm, My Hero

My friend Paulette loaned me a book almost a year ago. Since Ken died I often have difficulty focusing to read anything longer than a magazine article. But I do love this author, and have enjoyed everything I have read that he wrote, each time we saw him in person, and his tribute at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis. Each time I began to read this, I would hear his voice and miss both the …

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