Monthly Archives: August 2015

Monday August 31, 2015

Posted on 31 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I am reading Victoria Thompson’s Murder on Amsterdam Avenue in her Gaslight Mystery series. Another month come and gone. Starting tomorrow I have one month of employment left with the Firm. So far, things are still running smoothly with the … Continue reading →

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Sunday August 30, 2015

Posted on 30 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

The usual weekly (ware)house cleaning chores are complete. The house hunting has stalled out until new houses come on the market. I liked both the ones we walked away from but neither one was a show stopper. There will be … Continue reading →

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Saturday August 29, 2015

Posted on 29 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

Today is the usual Saturday chores. I pulled up the now leggy and sad looking summer annuals from the front bed and the two pots in back, picked up sticks, and mowed. The leaves are really starting to fall now. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday August 26, 2015

Posted on 26 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I am reading another one of  Archer Mayor’s Joe Gunther mysteries on my  Kindle, The Disposable Man. I went to the gym last night, it was good to get back there after missing a week. Work is going smoothly as … Continue reading →

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Monday August 24, 2015

Posted on 24 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

While at folk school I read two books on my Kindle, Small Town Secrets by Issy Brooke and Boiled Over by Barbara Ross, the second book in her Maine Clambake series. Back to work for me today. It was not … Continue reading →

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Sunday August 23, 2015

Posted on 23 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

Our wood carving class at the Campbell Folk school made lighthouses out of cottonwood bark. The bark is harvested from large dead cottonwood trees that grow in western Canada and British Columbia. Our instructor, Tom, cuts the bark as seen … Continue reading →

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Saturday August 22, 2015

Posted on 22 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I arrived home last night around 8:30 ending a fabulous week at the Campbell Folk School, sort of like being on a small college campus. I will have pictures later. We arrived at the school last  Sunday around 4pm. After … Continue reading →

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Saturday August 5, 2015

Posted on 15 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I leave tomorrow for a week at the John C.Campbell Folk School. Bonnie and I visited the school a couple of years ago on our road trip. Since then I promised her we would go for a week if I … Continue reading →

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Friday August 14, 2015

Posted on 14 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I started my vacation today which runs through Sunday the 23rd. This morning I picked up prescription at the drugstore and went to the grocery store. Bob and I then went to Costco, back home, lunch, and mowed the lawn. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday August 12, 2015

Posted on 12 August 2015 by Barbara Fritchman Thompson

I am getting ready to start reading on my Kindle, book four in Jenn McKinley’s Library Lover’s Mystery series, Read It and Weep. More heavy rain again late yesterday afternoon. Fortunately most of the storm had passed through downtown by … Continue reading →

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