Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon Kate’s at work. Two months almost to the day after her hip surgery she has returned to the Allina Clinic in Coon Rapids for her last four months of full time practice. I anticipate a successful … Continue reading
Samhain New (Wolf) Moon Kate and I had our business meeting. It involved the always fun annual chore of signing up for benefits with Allina. This is probably the last time we’ll need to do it. Even though it’s an … Continue reading
Samhain Waning Dark Moon Welcome to another sunny, warm November day. These are days I’ve come to expect from October, but, as Paul Douglas often says, nature tries to balance, so here we are close to Armistice Day with a … Continue reading
Samhain Full Dark Moon Kate’s recovery has, as she expected, plateaued. That means she’ll have time without the rapid gains she made over the last two weeks. According to her, the physical gains will not be lost, but the hope … Continue reading
Samhain Full Dark Moon Rigel and Vega spent much of the day defending us from visiting neighborhood dogs. Of course, thanks to our record setting fence-lines no battle could be joined, but jaw-boning was much in evidence. This evening they … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Dark Moon Dan the fence guy came and measured the fenceline for our garden. He hopes to finish by tomorrow and I hope he does. Rigel will then be relegated to digging holes in the woods and the … Continue reading
Fall Waxing DArk Moon Kate said this morning, “I have the zombie walk down.” She referred to her walker and its clump, clump rhythm. I suggested we have her greet trick or treaters. We could hang a sign on the … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Dark Moon Hospitals are not homes. Neither are they more than medically outfitted hotels. Abbott-Northwestern is a good hospital, but the gap between a good hospital and a healing environment is vast. Kate is now home, a healing … Continue reading
Fall Waxing Dark Moon The leaves have finally changed color in our yard. It happened almost over night. Many went dry before they turned, but more have become red, gold, yellow. The colors of fall are as much a part … Continue reading
Fall New (Dark) Moon Back from the hospital to visit Kate. She has the blue plastic line with its black plunger next to her at all times so she can get in the morphine drip for her current fifteen minute … Continue reading