Posting way over-due.  oh well.

We brought the horses up from their summer pasture yesterday, back to the fresh fall growth south & east of the house.  It was a good challenge of calming attitude and approach, to get them to follow a grain bucket and Corin and I over the line where the hot-wire had kept them out of the east pasture for so many months.   Their wild side tends to stand out after they've spent the better part of summer on their own over by the neighbor's big red barn.  The process went well. The best pleasure was sharing a bit of horse-time with Corin. 
Drove west to town at sunset with Diane to buy some food at Subway ( no one wanted to cook any real food this evening, and Katie & Kirdan had taken over the kitchen to bake cookies)--- and the evening sky looked an awful lot like the sunset over the river as we crossed from Paraguay into Argentina back in July.  It was a pleasant evocation of a happy memory.


bless you and yours

Two weeks ago I was introduced to bus transit in the metro area of Asuncion, Paraguay.  I soon agreed with my niece who stated, "Most of the time it is better just not to look..."
Last night the helicopters weren't flying due to thunderstorms across the top third of Minnesota.  The patient in my care really needed to be in the cardiac cath lab 163 miles away  As there was no other nurse available, and as our region has no paramedic-level ambulance service, I took the ride in the ambulance with the patient to the big medical center far away.  From the time we pulled away from the loading bay at our hospital, we were in the cath lab in 127 minutes.  That includes city traffic and construction zones, and navigating under the escort of hospital security from ambulance bay through hallways & elevators to the cath lab on the 4th floor. 
As my niece said, there are times it's better just not to look...
The pay for those runs seems exorbitant, but it's really just hazardous duty compensation.