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Good morning from Collegeville,

It is a beautiful crisp morning here in central Minnesota. Fall is just around the corner. My daughter has lots of Butternut Squash and loads of tomatoes in “our garden”. All I did was plant the Yukon Golds and the seeds for the squash. This is the first time that I have planted Butternut, I chose them because they are the easiest to remove the skin from. The Vegan Squash Soup recipe from Barby’s daughter calls for “cubed squash”.

This week my mother’s sister had to have emergency gall bladder surgery at HCMC in Minneapolis. She is having a tough time of it. I swore to never reveal her age, but in 1935 two beautiful blond teenage Norwegians moved to Upsala where Grandma and Bert Ramlo had purchased a grocery store from the Pearson family. The boys in school almost twisted their necks off as my mother Bea and her sister Lee walked the hallowed halls of Upsala High. Auntie married Duke Hagstrom and they lived in the same house next to the fire hall in Upsala their whole lives. For many years Auntie would make the rounds of the nursing homes in Little Falls and Albany visiting her friends. Many of them were younger than she was. Think positive thoughts for Auntie please.

The APHC show this week is kicking off the fall season with a live performance at The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul. It will be followed by the annual Meatloaf Supper and Street Dance on Exchange Street in front of the theater. Special guests include honky-tonk heroes Chuck Mead and His Grassy Knoll Boys, singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele and soprano Ellie Dehn. The Royal Academy of Radio Actors plus The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band will do their thing and of course, Garrison will bring us up to date on the News From Lake Wobegon. Enjoy the show.

“The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here; the way to be happy is to make others so.” Robert Green Ingersoll.