Peg sails through Port Yankout...

...I didn't have the stomach for it. Okay, enough with the bad jokes already-- Monday Peg had her abdominal chemo port removed. Yay! We ended up spending the entire day at the hospital for what's a fairly minor procedure, but it was nice to be back at Mercy for something expected and uncomplicated. Peg's a wee bit sore but glad to have one less reminder of our crazy summer.

Last night we spotted a coyote on the back deck sniffing around the sliding door to our bedroom. First sighting on our property in the 20 years we've lived here. He's joined the pantheon of other critters that have paid us a visit-- the possum we found slurping up the grease under our old grill; the raccoon family that showed up at our side door; the psychotic grey squirrel that threw itself repeatedly at our back door; and our neighbor's enormously pudgy cat, who amuses us by spazzing out on our old deck. The boards are a little rough, and the old thing rolls around repeatedly on them to scratch his own back.

I'm sure we amuse our neighbors as well ;-)