Pumpkin time

Early in the spring, we managed to snag an awesome deal on some 'expired' seeds at the market here in town. 5 cents each. Ben bought $2.00 worth of seeds with the defense that if they didn't grow we would only be out $2.00. So, we planted some and the pumpkins were some of the only ones that came up.

And, they kept growing.

The pumpkins were very fruitful. It seemed like every time we went to the garden it had grown another branch to take over yet another part of the garden. Then pumpkins started showing up. It was very exciting. We even had new pumpkins show up a couple weeks ago. Russell always got excited to count the pumpkins.

Imagine our despair when Ben went out to check them Saturday and they were all gone! Every last one!7 pumpkins gone with the littlest one which was rotting left behind. Ben and I were ticked off because the pumpkins were one of our more  productive plants. We told Russell and he was sad that the pumpkins were gone. I also emailed the lady in charge of the gardens and asked her if  she knew if someone had mistakenly taken them. When Ben got back from the priesthood session of conference he scoured the garden and found one pumpkin that was hidden under leaves and by the very edge of the garden next to the fence where the weeds grew really well.

Today after dinner, one of the old ladies knocked on our door with one of our pumpkins! Apparently the son of the lady in charge of the gardens had taken them because he was afraid they would get ruined from the frost. He had more of them in the his car. He must have forgotten how many he had taken from our garden because we only got 4 from him. Oh well. We now have enough pumpkins for each of us plus one extra.

And, in Meghan news...last week she rolled over from her front to her back. Then yesterday she rolled from her back to her front. I couldn't believe it, but Ben said she had done it earlier, too. But, never fear, she hasn't done any rolling at all today.

We took a fall drive last week to look at the leaves. They were not great, but it was a nice Sunday drive in the fall.

Don't mind the sideways view...