Leaves, hospital, and writing

My new best friend Carolyn arrived this morning.She and her son are doing the yard clean up and bush trimming for Mike and I. Thank goodness. The puppies were very happy to meet her and her son who is helping.

Mom stopped by this morning to drop off a bow for the present we are going to give Dad. Evil Mike and I (Evil Cora) are going to be taking Dad a roll of toilet paper to celebrate the removal of the colostomy bag. The poor guy is laugh until it hurts. And since he has a brand new incision, boy is it gonna hurt. But he'll appreciate the joke. We visited him yesterday. He has some more pain than the last surgery, but that is due to the fact that he had an epidural the last time and not this time. He was sleepy, but happy we came.

Just thought I'd add a picture of Sonny smiling. Mike took this a while ago. If you are afraid of big dogs, the teeth might not look so friendly, but trust me, this is a smile.

I'll (hopefully) be writing a bit this afternoon. I've got a short story in the works that I plan to send in to a contest. The deadline is the end of December. Knowing my propensity to procrastinate, I'm hoping I'll make the deadline. We'll see.