John Bredesen

“I’m retired but not really”

“What I’m doing each day is what I’m choosing to do.” [read more…]
Baking for the County Fair

Joyce enters stuff into her childhood county fair every year. Mostly baked goods and photography. The photo is of this year’s entries. Everything she bakes has extra: at least one extra loaf of bread, lots of cookies, bars, donuts, lefse, pies (which I have mentioned in another post), etc. It is all very delicious, especially… [read more…]
Running Aces

We went to the horse track the other day. Harness Racing is the feature at this track. We brought some friends of ours. The amusing thing is that two people loved horses and two people loved betting and there was only some overlap between those two things. Since I was the only one that wasn’t… [read more…]
Challenging Scrabble Day

I’ve mentioned before about the regular scrabble game I play with my mom and her friends. The image is of my first-draw letters for the first game this week. Not a great start. I have not memorized all of the vowel only words so I was stuck connecting consonants other people played. I did not… [read more…]
Pies for the county fair

My wife is baking for the county fair competition up north. Last night was fruit pies. The best part was that she took all the left over filling, combined it, and made a, well, I’m not sure what to call the kind of pie she made. Perhaps “delicious” is the best phrase to use. I… [read more…]

“I’m retired but not really”