It's almost Halloween . . .

We spent last Saturday night carving pumpkins. Not the brightest idea, as the unusually warm weather is already causing them to crumble, but that just gives us an excuse to carve some more next weekend. There were seven of us, so we got a great variety of designs.

Scott was very ambitious, and went for the labor-intensive tree design. (What else would Scott have chosen?!) It turned out incredible.

I decided to go more ghoulish, and chose the Grim Reaper.

We had 7 pumpkins worth of seeds, so we of course had to cook them up. We made a batch of garlic seeds, and a batch of spicy seeds with Tabasco sauce. Mmmmmm.

Goodbye, sweet Mickey

Sadly, one of my mom's two cats, Mickey, passed away yesterday. He was only four years old, and such a sweet kitty. He was found in my mom's front yard, with no apparent trauma. We don't know what happened to him, which is really hard. I hate to think that he suffered, but at such a young age, it couldn't have been natural. He will be sorely missed.