On Wednesday Robert left for a short trip to Florida. He was going for some demos and meetings at Eglin AFB. He left at 6:30 Wednesday morning and returned home at about 1 AM early Saturday morning. Nyssa and I both missed him a lot!
I took Nyssa to the vet for her yearly physical. She's around 12 years old now, and is starting to show her age a bit. She has had a heart murmur for a long time, but it's getting worse, and so now we have to consider what we want to do to treat it - x-rays, echo cardiograms, drugs and stuff. I bought her a harness to use on walks, instead of the collar, which irritates her trachea and makes her cough more. I also found a cute little pink jacket for her, but will have to exchange it for a medium instead of a small. She seems to feel the chill more now that she is older.
We had nice weather until Friday, when it started raining - apparently the remnants of some tropical storm or other. Friday night Tiffany and Dan came over for steaks. I used the grill in the rain, and while I was getting it heated up, Nyssa saw the steam and started barking about it. She did this once before when I had a pot on the stove that had gone dry and was smoking a bit. A canine smoke alarm!
Congrats, Tiffany!
Last night we had a mosquito in our house. Being the mosquito magnet that I am, I got a couple of bites before I saw the bug and squashed it. I really wish I weren't so allergic to mosquitoes - I have a couple of large red itchies.
It's hard to believe that September is all but finished. Our foliage is just starting to turn to the fall colors. It's late this year, because we had such a wet summer. However, it is expected to be especially brilliant for the same reason. I drove to Manchester, NH, on Thursday, and saw a bit of red here and there. Saturday during my bike ride I passed an area where all the trees had turned bright red. There are trees here and there on the way to church that have turned red. The next week or so will bring out the other colors, and I'll put some pictures up when I have some pretty views.
I wasn't able to do a lot on my thesis until the weekend. I pounded away at the code and couldn't get one particular thing to work, so I gave up for a while and went riding. About 10 miles into my ride I realized what I was doing wrong, and when I got back, I fixed the problem. Oxygen is so good for the brain! I'm just about finished with iteration 1 - all I have left is to feed back the results.xml document to the client, get the results nicely formatted, and then spin off a thread to launch the server-side activities.
We have a family in our ward with 5 little boys ranging in age from 9 down to 1 1/2. We have had them over and I have worked with the boys in the Primary when I substituted as the chorister. Their mom reported to me that the other day they saw someone who looked like Robert. Their 3 year old said, "Look, it's Sister Rains' brother!"
My Bosch bread mixer arrived this week. I now have a wheat grinder and a bread mixer, and have really enjoyed getting back into making bread. The whole wheat bread recipe from the Lion House Cookbook is especially tasty. It is also a good food-storage recipe - it calls for oatmeal, honey and powdered milk, in addition to the whole wheat flour.
I'm still looking for people to come to Boston to visit, so that I can go to some of the tourist attractions like Old Ironsides, the Freedom Trail and other places. Salem is a good place to visit in October, as they have all sorts of activities associated with their heritage and connection to the witch trials. The next 2-3 weeks will be especially beautiful as all the trees turn, and the coast of Mass. and New Hampshire is really pretty any time during the year.
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