Weekend in Mankato

I spent last weekend in Mankato, taking the airport shuttle after work on Friday and staying at my friend Lois' house. We were roommates the first year I was in Madison -- let's see, that would have been the school year of 1981-1982. We've known each other since childhood and attended two schools together and Lois is an accomplished pianist, organist and singer but but we've never actually done music together. So this time I brought my flute and a bunch of music and we played and Lois coached me a little on voice. We went for a walk, went shopping, watched Sense and Sensibility, visited her mother, went to Palm Sunday services at Mount Olive, and met Laurie and Andy O. et al for lunch. It was a good time. Got back to Minneapolis in the middle of the afternoon on Sunday and found the solar cookers out in the back yard. Luther had made a nummy banana/peach muffin/bread. It was fabulous.

Solar Cookers in the Yard