We carved our pumkins on Sunday night. I like carving pumpkins. I had a vision for mine but I know it will require lots of planning and photoshoping. I didn’t have time last night so I went for it anyway, ill-prepared.
Dave’s happy jack-o-lantern in the back and Aladdin Sane up front.
Aladdin Sane detail.
Glowing faces!! Get ready for trick-or-treating!!
Boy, does he ever look like a calzone. He’s not really this big, is he? He’s only 17 pounds.
Dinner on Saturday was tre yummy!!
I rubbed a pork tenderloin down with fresh ground coffee and pepper mixed with brown sugar and a few other spices, then Dave cooked it on the grill to perfection. I made two vegetable dishes. The first was apples cooked very slowly with red onions in butter, spiced with white pepper. Tastes so lovely, if you’ve never had it, you have no idea! The other dish was parsnips and carrots braised in hard apple cider and maple syrup with cinammon and red pepper. I boiled down the cider/maple syrup into a lovely glaze. It was a really tasty dinner and I was so impressed with myself! 🙂
Today we were supposed to plant our flower beds but it was too rainy. Instead, we stayed inside and did chores around the house. We started our day with M&M pancakes! Dave read the paper, accompanied by the cats.
I should preface this post with the following information:
That makes it all the more amazing to me that we missed our flight home on Sunday. We arrived at the Austin airport at 2 in preparation for our 3 PM flight, only to discover after a few minutes that we were supposed to be on a 1 PM flight. How embarrassing!
Amazingly, we managed to get home last night even though every flight we tried to get on was full. Dave’s Platinum status bumped us to the top of every Standby list and some very helpful gate agents managed to finagel us onto flights that were already too full. I am really impressed! I am also really tired because we landed after 11 and got to bed around 12, without any dinner. Ah well, at least we’re home.
Do you know what a hematoma is? It’s like an enormous blood blister. You nick a blood vessel somehow and then the vessel leaks. It fills up the area around it with blood and swells up like a grapefruit.
Cayce somehow has a hematoma on his back, near the site of the surgery. It’s totally gross looking but isn’t bothering him any and it’s not infected so we’re leaving it alone for right now. It may take weeks or months for the body to reabsorb all the fluid and the lump to disappear.
In this picture, you can see the lump from two different directions. The lump is not his shoulderblades sticking up, it’s a soft and squishy swelling about the size of a softball.
The other morning I discovered a big spider who spun a very large web between a tree and the front porch. Man, they are industrious! Below is a closeup of the big spider.
This spider we found in the woods of Corolla this past weekend.
Cayce had a tumor removed recently. Here are his post surgery pictures. The white spot is a previous scar. The surgery scar starts above the white spot and goes about an inch and a half towards his neck. It’s healing really well now.
The tumor was benign and now he has an enormous hematoma on his back (not in the pictures).
He had an infection in his nose, too.
Sadly, Oscar the beautiful white dog of Ele did not have such good results from his biopsy. 🙁
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