Decorating my garden shed

Even though we got a late start on our backyard garden, we were fortunate to harvest all sorts of mixed gourds and jack-be-little pumpkins. 

Our humid and hot summer made for perfect growing conditions. 

I decided that my garden shed needed a little fall decorating.

I haven't spent much time in my special space, so I got busy Sunday afternoon clearing out the cobwebs.

Now that it's clean again, maybe I'll bring a book outside and enjoy my cozy sanctuary.

I'm looking forward to visiting my blogging friends and seeing your fall decorations.  Have a great week!

Hoo's excited for Halloween?

This summer (like every summer), we had big plans for growing our own pumpkins in our backyard vegetable garden. Mother Nature and Mr. Groundhog had other ideas and we were left with only two pumpkins. 

Although Chris is the master pumpkin carver, I'm the glue gun painter pumpkin designer when it comes to Josie's school pumpkin contest.

This year, she decided she wanted to create an Owl for her school's pumpkin contest.

We used lots of straight pins to hold our felt feathers into place.

Mr. Owl is now happy to be visiting Josie's school library.  Happy "almost" Halloween!
    

Pumpkin comparisons...

In years past, we had a favorite farmer that we purchased our stash of pumpkins. Going to his pumpkin patch became an annual tradition and a great opportunity to document growth of the girls over the last 12 months. I just have to share a flashback from 2010. 

Our regular farmer is no longer selling pumpkins and so this year, my annual Halloween "sister" picture was taken at our zoo Halloween party. 

I can't believe how quickly time has flown by.  Emma isn't a little girl anymore.   You'll be happy to know that Chris has found a new pumpkin dealer to feed his pumpkin addiction.  This is only a portion of of his stash. 

He will be pulling an all nighter Thursday to carve his 20+ pumpkins in time for Friday's party.

Party ON!
   

Hints of fall are popping up EVERYWHERE!

We took a different route on the way to the a-frame on Friday and came across this. 

Of course I made Chris stop the car so that I could snap a photo.   I hope your weekend was a restful one.  It's off to the races with the official start of the new fall semester at my University!
 

Great pumpkin plans!!

Shall we take a stroll to our vegetable garden? 

 Past the treehouse/gardening shed and my beloved gnome house is a sunny patch of land.

 This is where the vegetable garden resides.

Every year we have big plans for a huge harvest of pumpkins.

Maybe the pumpkins know our true intentions and encourage their woodland friends to invade our garden.

This year, we have special things in place.

We now have a motion/heat sensor activated sprinkler.  Thank you Mom and Dad! 

We also have fencing like Fort Knox.

We also have this dandy scarecrow.

Peter Rabbit, you'd better tell your friends to stay away.

Boo!

I speak for the trees!!!

This year, Josie decided she wanted to have a Dr. Seuss Lorax pumpkin for her school pumpkin patch.  

I tried to find faux yellow fur for his mustache and eyebrows, but ended up hot-gluing fuzzy yellow yarn onto felt. His nose is an orange pom pom.

A tissue paper blossom becomes the top of the Truffula tree.

Happy soon-to-be Halloween!




PS.  Continued prayers for those in the Sandy's path. May you be safe and sound from the storm.