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here's to us! - it's our anniversary! - 5 years ago today kara and i were married by reverend raspberry in her backyard in everett, wa. precious few were in attendance, but i daresay the ceremony took. and today we're celebrating 5 years of wedded bliss by having kara undergo surgery on her left ring finger. the nail will be removed and it's possible that a pin will be placed in her fingertip to hold the broken bone in place while it heals. the surgeon won't know about the pin until he gets in there and looks at it. this will happen this morning, in a few hours. i think kara is mostly worried about the anesthesia; she was told yesterday she would probably have a choice between general and local, and if she does have a choice, she'll choose local. the surgery should take an hour or an hour and a half. it's probably a relatively simple thing and there probably isn't anything to worry about. still, it's a little scary. surgery!

sagan's ashes are going to be scattered at the foothills of mount rainier. isn't that nice? the vet's office offers that service. i don't know if someone from there takes a drive out to the mountain once a week or once a month or once every 6 months, with ashes. maybe they have a contract with a helicopter company. i don't know.

kara and i disassembled sagan's crate the other day, wednesday, the day after she died. i carried it upstairs, and we'll let the next dog use it. in the meantime, though, there's a big empty space in that room. we've been calling it "the sagan room" but now we'll have to come up with another name. maybe "the study," as kara sets up her laptop in there sometimes to do her schoolwork. i'm not sure if that term will catch on, though. anyway, the big empty space is disconcerting. that's where sagan used to sleep.

depending on how kara feels this evening, we might take ourselves out to dinner. we'll see. it's been a strange and terrible week, but we have a good marriage.