Fall Garden

This hot, hot, dry, dry summer was tough on our garden.  We harvested a few tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and 1 little bitty ol’ canteloupe back in June and July.  Since then, it has been too stinkin’ hot to even get out there to work.  Yuck.  We pulled everything up in late July (except the watermelon vine and that crazy pepper plant that likes the high temps)with the plan to start a few things for August.  Um, yea.  That didn’t happen. 

Finally, we have a break from the heat.  We had a couple of pretty (read as cooler than 90 degrees) days around the beginning of September so we weeded everything and laid down a new layer of compost.

Today, the high is only 89!  Whoo Hoo!  (let’s pretend that last Friday wasn’t day #65 or so of 100+ degree temps)  I picked up some lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli from HD to transplant.  I decided to try one more early producing tomato too.  Maybe we’ll get a few more before the temps get too cold. 

So…here it is, the fall garden with it’s teeny tiny transplants, the crazy and loaded bell pepper plant and one happy, but not fruitful, watermelon vine.  Bring on the fall!

 

Cub Scouts

Isn’t he cute?  He’s been to 3  meetings and he’s having a blast.

Want to buy some popcorn from the Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts?

Fall Ombre

I’ve been inspired by all the ombre trends I’ve seen lately.

Source: thelateafternoon.com via Jaclyn on Pinterest

I haven’t been able to get this great dress from Project Runway out of my head.

So, I decided to translate all this inspiration into an idea of my own:
 

Here’s how I did it:

I picked up 3 bunches of fall flowers at HL.

I enlisted some help to pull the petals apart.

Then we cut each one in half.

I drew my B on a piece of plywood and used a jigsaw to cut it out. 

Somebody thought it needed sanded before I spray painted it. 

Then I started gluing on petals, using my hot glue gun.  I started at the bottom since i wanted them to overlap each other. 

I switched to the brown about 1/3 of the way up, and then gold for the last 1/3.

I used a golden ribbon to hang it by the front door.  C’mom fall!

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