Beautiful Fall

Chad Hawkes took this picture - with a drone? 
It has been a beautiful beautiful fall in Utah

Now that I'm retired, I've got one week before I head to AZ to help 
Amanda.  The yardmaster has put me to work ! 

New toys.........

It's coming along ! 

 

More fall fun - this time with the boys

We love it when Elliot comes to play

This time we painted Christmas ornaments ! 

Beautiful Fall

Bright and Bex came up to spend some time one Saturday afternoon, and were able to help gather the flowers from the Property. 

Then we decorated the graves with fall foliage

Then we went to check out MORGAN MAZE !! 

Almost got lost in the corn, and Grandm's phone was dying, so we headed back OUT 

Corn pit was SO MUCH FUN !! 

Back to Grandma's for a sleepover - but FIRST, let's dip some strawberries in WHITE CHOCOLATE (no chocolate fountain this time - Grandma wasn't up for it and we didn't have that much chocolate)

Next morning we painted baby pumpkins !!

And jumped on the trampoline before we took it down for the season.  

How does our garden grow - Pumpkin/Squash Patch

May - we are getting started

Some industrious guy (Dad) decided to plant 4 rows this year !!!
10 per row, that's 40 plants folks

It was a struggle at first, and they weren't sure they were coming up, so they planted MORE - Yikes !!
Roger puts his grass cuttings here to keep the weeds down. 

June - they are coming up pretty good. 

And a little bit more.............

We water 3x a week, and every day we water, we remark on how much they have grown. 

July - WOW, they are taking over

and more...................

Until finally, you can't even walk between the rows......

If you look close, and push the leaves to the side, you can see pumpkins and squash. 

Most of the garden is put to bed, but we are waiting for a frost to knock down the leaves/vines. 

There we go - mid September we got our wish.  Now you can see patches of orange and yellow. 

Wow, I wanted to get a total count, but seriously there were WAY to many, we are talking hundreds if you count the baby ones. 

Harvest day in full swing.  Sure glad Erika and Aaron and Lizzie came to help. We were missing alot of our crew due to COVID, but we got it done. 

We haul the vines down to the burn pile with the tractor. 

We had quite a few BIG MACS this year 

At the end, we had two big trailers full of pumpkins and squash.  Some of the different kinds of squash were Butternut, Buttercup, Acorn, Blue Hubbard, Green Hubbard, Banana, Pink Banana, Sweet Meat.  For the pumpkins, we had Howdens (traditional), Big Macs (huge monstrosities), wee be littles, baby boos, and a few green "Cinderella" ones, and some yellow ones, that we don't have any idea what they were, and some striped gourd like things.  

All in all it was a GREAT year for growing pumpkins !!!