squirrels, bruises, Babylon

Hola!

Here's a hodgepodge week for you!  I have a few photos which have nothing to do with each other.  But I'm going to post them anyway.

FAT, BOLD SQUIRREL:  Kara and David did such a good job carving our Halloween pumpkins this year...sorry no photos of the finished product, but one was a witch and the other a werewolf.  They were nice and detailed.  We put them on the front doorstep.

Then one morning I notice that they are all chewed up!  "SOMEone has been eating MY Halloween pumpkin," I can hear the little bear saying.

The next morning I open the front door and see this fat furry guy, sitting on top of the pumpkin chowing down.  He stopped chewing a moment to look at me, then went right back to chewing.  Even when I moved to get the camera, returned, and started snapping pictures, he kept on eating, giving me an occasional side glance.  "Are you still here?  You're kind of interrupting my breakfast."

YELLOW, GREEN, and BROWN.  These are the colors of my bruise on my face.  I set up the tripod and took these pictures so Frank could see.  He missed it, with his conference in Las Vegas last week.  The swelling went down a little in my cheek (caused by the mini surgery skin graft I had done in my mouth), to be replaced by awful colors and bruising on my cheek and jaw!  So, here's the proof that it really happened.  I didn't notice until I looked at the photos, that even under my eye looks yellow and bruised.  Poor me. (??!? It's almost all gone by now.)

HANGING GARDENS of BABYLON.  Kara is studying Messopotamia in Social Studies, and her current project (due Tuesday) is to replicate these Hanging Gardens.  Frank took on this one (bless you, thank you, thank you), by mapping out the project details with Kara, and taking her to the craft store yesterday.  Today he put in a full afternoon of coaching, while she drew the patterns, painted, used the carpet knife to cut, glue-gunned, decorated and put on finishing touches to this masterpiece!

So, that's last week in a nutshell.  Now we have a short week, a long weekend and time to be thankful, all mixed in between!

Happy Thanksgiving in 2 more days!  Kari