Back from our travels the first weekend was a bit of a blear…

some rain rained I think

and sometimes it didn’t

allowing one to get out and about and wishing I could catch those two Karmann Ghias together somewhere.

Once the weather became cooperative Phil Joy appeared and lifted the neighbor’s house three feet in six hours…

while the dogs gained from the solar as well.

A Medical Week; after the vet had a look at Lefty’s left rear leg lump [visible below] he scheduled an operation for Wednesday, same day as my long-deferred physical.

Last Walk, pre-Procedure;

while L. moved work to Oakland for her show at school I continued on to Kaiser,

and later collected the canine, groggy and confused…his cone, sutures and the hospital smells disconcerting to Aggie.

Awake much of that night I sought out the nearest dentist, who sent me straight to a periodontist…blowing another day although I did manage to clean and wax the ’45 [not shown] in the interim.

Next morning foodless to Kaiser for labwork

[a followup to the physical, not the dentistry], back for breakfast, back again.

Saturday, free of Healthcare at last, we drove to the gallery to finish Linda’s install,

me spending three hours on the ephemera wall

and all of us tweaking the lighting well into the afternoon.

A malaise resulting from the medical germpit pretty much wiped out the next couple of days

but midweek I began gathering supplies for Nevada, covered the ’45 [rain predicted and it shouldn’t be put up wet] and then

to CCA for Linda’s illustrated and illustrious talk “My Misspent Youth Proved to be a Good Investment”; well-received and home late.

Thursday, a grey low day promising later rains, saw a final foraging, gas, sorting, collapse…lunch out under a warm darkening sky as Lefty continued his recovery, pretty resilient for anybody, let alone a fifteen-year-old dog.

By the time the rains came the truck was mostly packed so we went out to the Union for their usual good food and jazz, wrapping up two rather unproductive weeks in Cali.

Seemingly.

M