Imbolc Valentine Moon Saudi Arabia. Mark has been there for well over a … Continue reading
Fall New Autumn Moon While we slept, the busy folks at English Gate Academy in Saudi Arabia were solving Mark’s visa snags. Dr. Ahmed called a person he knew at the Saudi Embassy in DC. Mark submitted two new forms, … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon So. Yesterday I got up, got ready to go into the museum, got in the car and got no engine love. Click. Click. Click. Of course, I only had adequate time to get there since I … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Harvest Moon Today we moved from conjecture to certainty. The top person at English Gate Academy, Ahmed, e-mailed Mark and said he would write a personal note to the Saudi Embassy asking them to speed Mark’s visa application … Continue reading
Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon Kate’s out in Denver visiting the grandkids while Mark and I hold a visa watch, waiting for some word from the mysterious world of Saudi bureaucracy. Yesterday I took a trip to Duluth to deliver 3 … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Oh. Visas. I think I shall never see a visa lovely as a tree. Or something like that. Anyhow, the Saudi visa saga took an unexpected and unpleasant turn this morning. Turns out there are two … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon We moved Gertie (the German wire hair, formerly of Denver) and Kona (our oldest dog now, a whippet) downstairs. Gertie had slept in our bedroom but consistently got Kate up between 6 am and 6:30 am. … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Harvest Moon Visas. All visas all the time. Got a fluttery batch of e-mails and phone messages, all received after Travisa’s office’s had closed. OMG. We won’t get the documents to you in time. OMG. Solved by reminding … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Over to Carlson Toyota this morning. Why? To have Kate sign over the Tundra to me, as a gift. The purpose? Avoid sales tax on the title transfer. My name alone is on the Rav4, … Continue reading
Lughnasa Waxing Honey Extraction Moon Mark went to a hospitality industry job fair in St. Louis Park. I took him, then went on out to Minnetonka Travel in Wayzata. I picked these folks almost at random to help with the … Continue reading