Wednesday 24 October 2007

Little Man confessed to me today that he just wasn’t “digging ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.”  “It’s boring, dad.”  Hmmm….  I consider a real example of how far I’ve come in my maturation/development as a homeschool parent that I reacted with total commiseration.  Believe me, it took some time to not only realize the futility of [...]

Thursday 18 October 2007

Little Man’s mom had surgery today.  A type of skin cancer called a basal cell carcinoma was removed from her right cheekbone.  Really interesting surgical procedure called the Moh’s procedure performed using a microscope to precisely remove the cancer and minimize scarring.  Our son wanted to stay and watch (like his dad did a couple of [...]

Cotton Picking and Cow Hunting…

Yesterday, my son and I drove out to the country vet to have stitches removed from our Black Lab’s ear.  “Lefty” developed a hematoma a couple of weeks ago from either shaking his head or scratching too hard.  It required surgery to drain and repair, else we risked him developing an ugly “cauliflower ear.”  Anyway, we [...]