Caught off guard...

Every year around this time I am always surprised by that first threat of frost (the days seem so comfortably warm). We live near a river and our vegetable garden is down a hill in a low lying area. So we get a rather early frost compared to our neighboring towns. So (this year being no exception) last night I was running around "like a crazy chicken" covering all the plants I wanted to keep a bit longer. Just when the morning glories are so beautiful along comes a frost to kill them and turn them in to a brown tangle of vines. But for the most part it looks like the last night's temps stayed above the frost mark and we are given a brief respite before fall is here and winter comes marching along.

We have some huge pumpkins in the garden this year and I would love them to get even bigger. We have never had such big ones and after last year I was almost going to give up on them. The kids were so excited when they found them yesterday. I made a VERY tall stick trellis out of branches we cut. This week I will work on a second one. I also spent a few hours on Sunday with my hands in a bin of cement to make a few cement mushrooms. I also took two popped balls to fill with cement too. I basically took over my kids sand pile to do this project. This summer I had no time to do this since any free time was consumed by my custom orders from my shop.

I started up a list of links on my blog side bar called "who loves chickens". I would love to add more links too so if anyone has any to share please let me know. I found several last night and added the awesome flickr groups I love.

Autumn Beauty

I woke up a little early this morning and took a few photos of this little bird. She seemed to enjoy her first exploration outside!



The morning glories are looking so beautiful now. These are the purple and pink varieties that seem to grow so well.