The Tail and Other Things

I had a horrible scare the other day. I was stuck working an afternoon, so was home in the morning and had let Elvis outside for a bit. He knocked at the front door to come back in. He doesn`t really knock, but one of the stones are tippy and he steps on it and thumps it to let us know he wants in.
I opened the door only to see in horror that he had a tail in his mouth. A big bushy beige tail. I quick closed the door in his face and paced, shocked, thinking "Elvis has brought the tail of Angus home. Something has killed him and he`s brought it home to show me." You can imagine how upset I was. I was shaking and fretting and feeling quite sick. I called hubby and he said to be brave and go outside and have a look around. Finally I gathered up enough courage to face what I might face out there and went out the back door. There was no way I was going out the front. I looked around, still feeling sick and saw blood on Elvis` feet. I rushed back in fretting again. Called hubby and said " Elvis has blood all over his feet and I just know that was Angus` tail!. I don`t know what to do" He said " Do you want me to come home?" "Yes" says I.
Meanwhile I forced myself out the back door again, avoiding the front and watched Elvis wash his feet in the pond. I decided to face it and look at the front door and this is what I saw ( I`ve cropped it because the other end of it was really gross) Hubby took this picture while I was at work. He was left to remove it from being stuck under the screen door...

I realized it wasn`t quite like Angus and with unbelievable relief, I ran back inside to call hubby before he left. "So, you mean I can take all my tools back out of the car again?" say he. "Yes" says I.
There are bloddy hunters in the woods that like to chop the poor deer up that they shoot and leave the useless parts behind. At the horrified split second glance I took I was sure it was a cats tail, but and as you can see here, Angus still has his....

As usual I`m slapping loads of pictures all up at once. The Delphiniums are looking lonely and refusing to die yet...

I may actually get "roses round my door" :)

Things are looking very barren....

Elvis comes back from a wander on the frost covered grass this morning....

"I think I`d like to go in now Mum, where it`s cozy and warm"

My Dad gave me this tree that was off to die for the winter in an unheated greenhouse at work. They don`t much care there about some of the plants left over from sales so he was given it. I may get my garden room look yet.....

I moved the couch for the winter so it would be closer to the fire and as you might have noticed, I removed the red curtains. It looked to colourful if that makes sense LOL....

Teddy`s all toasty inside.....

I just had to snap these while I was sitting here preparing this post. Teddy and Angus want to get to the tea cup food dishes and Isobell is intentionally blocking the way...

And of course with sweety-pie Elvis lying beside me, I had to take one last picture of him....

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Autumn is certainly here now!