{"id":9060,"date":"2011-01-08T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2016-05-14T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:47:34","slug":"homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here, waiting on Kate to come home from her retirement party at work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s at an Applebees, noisy and with people I don&#8217;t know so I stayed home.\u00a0 With my hearing loss a noisy room makes a party, not my favorite place to begin with, much worse.\u00a0 Since we&#8217;ve never found anything to help my unilateral hearing loss, it&#8217;s important to know my limitations.\u00a0 Still, I miss being with her right now, though our work places have always been separate.\u00a0 A doctor can&#8217;t take her husband to work with her so he can see what she does.\u00a0 As a result, I&#8217;ve not hung out there, gotten to know her colleagues.\u00a0 We did go to group events in the first years, but those long ago petered out as the corporate side of medicine fragmented the docs.<\/p>\n<p>Kate came home while I was writing this.\u00a0 She had a wonderful evening out and received several gifts, including a pricey bottle of champagne.\u00a0 Which, of course, I can&#8217;t help her with.\u00a0 Darn.\u00a0 Excitement still radiated from her polished, sprinkled fingernails to her equally polished and twinkly toes.\u00a0 Now she&#8217;s up and we&#8217;re getting ready to take Vega, Rigel and Kona over to Armstrong Kennels, their home away from us while we fly to Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what?\u00a0 5-10 inches of snow predicted for Denver on the day we arrive.\u00a0 Oh, joy.\u00a0 The good news is it will be 25 degrees warmer than home at 26.<\/p>\n<p>Today is a get ready to travel day.\u00a0 Stuff to do.\u00a0 Talk to you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month I&#8217;m sitting here, waiting on Kate to come home from her retirement party at work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s at an Applebees, noisy and with people I don&#8217;t know so I stayed home.\u00a0 With my hearing loss a noisy room makes a party, not my favorite place to begin with, much &hellip; 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