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The summer of milestones continues and it is a busy one!  Randal and I went back to Indiana for a couple of weeks to complete wedding preparations and see the newest addition to the Lupov family.  Baby Avery was born on the same day that we officially closed on our house and she is a cutie!  Long dark hair and the cutest little button nose...  I had a wonderful time holding her and chatting with new-mama Mackenzie.  Babies are an adjustment, but Mama and Papa Lupov are making the transition extraordinarily well.

I have since returned to Klamath Falls where my partner, Stephanie, was successfully keeping the pets and plants alive for us.  Oh, and also the small task of starting our CMS Innovation Grant.  It was good to get down to work and really pound it out.  And by that, I mean that we are still pounding it out.  We hope that the rough draft will be finished by Friday and we can take a breath.

The learning curve is steep, but I feel that it is coming along.  I think that we have an impressive model that can work financially, but we have encountered some errors and pitfalls along the way.  Periodically, I will tell Stephanie what the background music will be in the movie that they make about our successful clinic.  However, I now think that this might be a really boring part of the movie in which Stephanie and I sit at our computers, periodically make poop jokes, and discuss financial and operational narratives all day.  Also, sometimes we walk the dogs.

It is long and we are slogging through and we will say at times, "I will be glad when this is finished."  However, I will be so grateful that we put in these long days when we are actually putting this plan to work.  And, so I return to the grind.

But first!  Some examples of some fun breaks in our days:

A message for Randal from the family as he drove across the country.

Stephanie's dogs: Curly (L) and Juja (R).  Doesn't Curly look like a William Steig character?  (Please see "Dr. DeSoto" by William Steig.)

 

Maizie and I on a sunset hike.

It's a good partner who will take hike breaks with you.

"Do you want the moon?  I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down...  Then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see...  and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair..."  George Bailey, "It's a Wonderful Life."

And Stephanie captures the sun.

Our home.