Well, the rest of the summer flew by and now Winter feels like it's only a day or two away. We're currently fending Axel off from the trick or treaters that come to the house. Axel continues to single handedly fund the St. Peter Vet clinic. He's allergic to his food, and has been on prescription food since September. We've done the calculations, and if you don't count daycare (which is wishful thinking for us and the parents out there) Axel is more expensive than the infants and toddlers the office. Good thing he's cute. He's still growing like crazy and now weighs 73 pounds. Mike and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary in early October. We spent a long weekend at Grand Superior Lodge where we stayed for our honeymoon last year. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed hiking at Crosby Manitou State Park near Finland, MN.
And in the eighth month, God said: "Let the cabinets have doors." And so they had doors, and the Lord saw they were good, and he was pleased. Mike finished the kitchen cabinet doors and now we can conceal the lack of organization just like any other folks can. Part of the delay can be accounted for by Mike's insistence on relying on the little known book of Abram from the Bible, which required Mike to make all measurements in cubits. For those who are not familiar, the book of Abram is between the books of Vila and Taylor in the construction Bible. On a sadder note, Sunday my grandmother Olga passed away at age 93 after many years of Alzheimers and most recently breast cancer. My grandmother was a wonderful woman who lived her life with grace and free from judgment all of her days.
