Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Kate now moves short distances without her walker, without wincing. Her color is great and her recovery seems, to me, faster than last time. Just checked. She walked without a walker about 5 days post-op last time, so she’s right on schedule. She has always done surgery well, knows how […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Kate showed up at the breakfast table this morning, the Zimmerman walker nearby. Her friend TJ Zimmerman gave her this fancy cherry red walker before her last hip surgery. It’s a speedy contraption, should have flames and streamers. When I went upstairs a moment ago, she was at her computer, […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Picked Kate up at a very quiet Fairview-University. She got into the truck cab under her own steam, stands on her new hip and walks short distances with the aid of the walker. Her progress from last Friday amazes me. She tires quickly, of course, but she’s already on the […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon In to see Kate this morning after making some soup and killing potato pests by hand and soapy water. Integrated pest management suggests hands-on management for small crops. It’s actually pretty straight-forward to keep pests in check if you inspect regularly. Like the plastic bags for the apples. The concept […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Oh, boy. Mark felt right at home yesterday, but noted, “Well, it won’t last.” He saw the temporary nature of high temps as a bad thing. Different acclimatization. He continues to work through difficult stuff. We had a long, very interesting talk yesterday. Having Kate in the hospital raises the stress […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon A groggy Kate called this morning to say she had a temp and they’d done a chest x-ray. Maybe pneumonia. The adage after surgery is wind, water, wound. That is, look for an infection first in the lungs, second in the kidneys/bladder and third in the wound itself. This seemed to […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon The ritual masters of the American medical system had us rising with the sun at 5:00 am for the Admittance to the Hospital ceremony, then the Cutting of the Flesh. By getting us up at a time far earlier than our usual 7:00-7:30 we knew this was a magical moment. We […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon “God has no religion.” – Mahatma Gandhi If there is one, Gandhi has it right. Another day of Latin. This stuff, at least right now, is hard. It requires holding several different ideas in the head all at one time, then juggling them to see how they all fit together. Here […]
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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 evening and final four months for her, having seen a remarkable recovery in terms of […]
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Summer Waxing Grandchildren Moon I decided to take a month off from Latin tutorials. Not from Latin, just the every week preparation of a new chapter. I need to cement my learnings about verb conjugations, pronouns and certain uses of the ablatives and genitive. Also, I need a break from expectations. Kate’s up seeing her […]
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