Crispy!

It is time for the Thanksgiving push. The pumpkins managed to mostly survive our squash-vandalizing squirrels (only one pumpkin had a tooth gnawed off). Ultimately, they will all end up in the garden triangle where they will re-enter the great squash circle of life. You would think that we would have grown at least one pumpkin after 7 years of throwing our Halloween detritus there. We did have one unidentifiable non-pumpkin squash grow one year; technically, he counted as a weed. Shaynee still covets the some of our neighbors garden boxes where they manage to grow some frankly gorgeous pumpkins. We have actually done better growing potatoes back there, and the strawberries vines have taken over every square inch (despite only producing a total of about 23 fruit).

TC has been in a raking frenzy the past two weekends, just as described by the above Hallmark blog(?!?) comic. The magnolia tree then promptly dumps another huge bolus onto the lawn. Just to spite me. The kids like playing in the leaves, which sort of defeats the whole purpose of raking them into piles.

The bathroom underwent a mini- Extreme Makeover. New paint, new faucet, new hardware. Who would have thunk that it would take that much trial-and-error to get the sink fixtures in. Shaynee based the whole concept on a shower curtain that she bought, mainly because she hated the green color it was. Still needs a little touching up, and will need to change the lighting, too. However, with these little changes, it actually looks pretty good.