Quick Update

THE COUNTDOWN'S ON: Like so many others, we are counting down the days until the election. We decided to do so literally and I ordered a DIY advent calendar.

Annabelle used her Cricut to cut out numbers for the drawers. She also cut out letters for the sentiment in the middle of the calendar.

Now, we just need to figure out what to put in the little drawers. I bought some chocolate coins tonight at Winco. They are blue foil with an eagle on one side and John F. Kennedy on the other side. I thought they would be perfect! I was wrong. They're just a tad too big, darn it. Now we have 50 blue foil covered coins we don't need and nothing for our little drawers. The search continues.

TRAGEDY: Remember me crowing about finally having one little pumpkin growing in our garden? We were so excited.

Well, yeah, pox on that. I took the dogs out yesterday morning and went to check on our pumpkin and found it has become detached from the vine. Nooooooooo!

I'm blaming the dogs. They like to walk along the wall and I'll be one of them knocked it off the vine. Drat!

In happier news, we do still have a few flowers around, including a couple of dahlias, some poppies, the clover is blooming again, among other bright spots. We also picked a couple dozen more tiny red tomatoes.

So there's our gardening round up.