POWER RANGER STRIKES AGAIN

I think that this will be the absolute last time Mimi will be a Power Ranger. She keeps changing her mind about next year. One minute she wants to be a witch, the next minute she wants to be a black cat. I guess that is a woman's perogitive though to change her mind when she sees fit.

I put out a bowl of candy last night. There was two boxes of Hershey's chocolate bars, two boxes of fun dippers, about 10 bags of microwave popcorn. As soon as I put them on the porch I told dad to let's go with Mimi but of course he is worse than any kid in a candy shop. He was already outside the door leaving me to take care of everything like setting the alarm, making sure that Mimi has her lights on, putting the leash on Butch, make sure my costume was on (witch). In the meantime we ran out of candy and I told him not to answer the door and of course he did. He said that he wanted to see if it was anyone we knew. Does not matter that we were going to see our friends on the street anyways.

There I was with an empty candy bowl, no candy and kids at the door that dad had opened. So I did the next best thing. Dipped into our own candy bowl that was filled with Konpeito (Japanese coffee candy), Smarties and Ricola cough drops and put those into the bowl of candy to give out and would you believe that was bowl was empty when we came home from trick or treating?! Even the Ricola was gone!

Mimi saw all of her friends on the street. She stuck with Alex till he went home, then we saw Zoe and her family then walked home with them.

At one point we stopped by one house where they had a blow up of a ghost playing the organ and two other ghosts dancing. Sort of what you see in Disney's Haunted Mansion in the dining hall where they have all of the ghosts dancing (my favorite part of the ride). Butch saw this particular blow up and thought it was real so he decided to bark at it. It was quite funny to see him do this. Even ole' Butch saw his friend Teddy (Pomeranian) trick or treating.

FUN IN THE SUN

BREAKFAST TIME

Butch in every which way is always trying to steal a piece of bacon.
The little wretched thief.

IN THE HOSPITAL

Well we got here at the ungodly hour of 6:00 a.m. The stinky part
about where we live is that it takes a good 45 minutes to get here.
Therefore we had to wake up by 4:30. I am now ready for a nap.

THE BIG DAY

Well folks, tomorrow morning is the big day. Dad is going into the hospital for what is known in the medical field as a epigastric hernia repair. Yep, that's right. Dad has a hernia. About one month ago dad said to me "Here, feel this. I have a small lump in my stomach." I felt it but was not quite sure what to make of it. At first I thought it might have been a tumor. Then dad said that when he laid down the lump would go away. Then when he would stand up, the lump would come back. Then I knew it was a hernia and told him to make an appointment with the doc. Sure enough I was right. So for a whole month I told him not to pick Mimi up and carry her around as she is all of 41 pounds now and solid as a rock. Didn't want to make it any worse than it is.

I am so thankful that I have such wonderful friends in the neighborhood. Since we have to leave the house around 5 in the morning, I asked Keri if it would be alright if she took care of Mimi all day tomorrow. She said that it would be fine. Blake was in 7th heaven. So therefore Mimi went to play at his house for a little while after school then came home to bathe and eat dinner before going back over to Blake's house for the sleep over. Then dad and I walked her over to Keri's house. There is one slight problem though. Bailey loves to play with Mimi too and I think that Blake feels a tinge of jealousy because the girls will huddle together reading a book while putting Blake out. I'm sure he'll live though.

We should be home by the evening.

SEE THE RESEMBLENCE???

Kinda scary ain't it? This Halloween in particular Mimi has been afraid of her own shadow so to speak. She refuses to go upstairs by herself at night. For a while she would come home with stories about how Rachel says that Lake Wilderness is haunted or how Noah has a ghost in his bathroom and the water continues to run. Then one day last week after dropping her off at school, I took this picture of the front of our house totally forgeting that Mimi has a stuffed dog with the same likness.

JOB WELL DONE

Everyone in my family knows that I am not the most gracful person around. This is the bruise that I sustained last week while doing gardening work in our backyard. When I set out to do something, I do it right.