Pumpkin Vine Guardian

This lil' fella hopped up on one of my vines as I was watering them =) This one's for you Frog Queen!

Thrift Store Goodies

Went cruising the thrift stores with Mommers yesterday and picked up some pretty cool things. One was a jacket for my Jack character. It's still not exactly what I wanted, but pretty darn close and it was $6. Then I found a copy of Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera" for $.39... who can beat that?


At the next store, I found this guy. A little rough for wear, but has a very vintage look, so I had to have him; $2.

Finally, I found my prize of the day. A precious little porcelin owl, sitting on a branch of beautiful fall leaves; $2.

It wasn't until I got in the car and took him out of the dingy plastic bad that he was in, that I realized that it's a Lenox piece! What a treasure =)

Houston, We Have a Problem...

So, my pumpkin vines have been maturing beautifully. Big green leaves, strong vines, lots of flowers, then last night, I come home to one type of my vine looking almost completely dead and a piece of another "broken". I felt bad, because it looked like they had been water deprived so I watered them for 30 minutes last night, making sure the ground was nicely saturated. I wake up this morning, thinking that I'm going to get some new material to make a bigger cover so that the heat doesn't affect the vines so much and find that more pieces are "broken" on my vines. At this point, I figured that it was a stray cat or possum making it's way through my garden that is breaking things and I figure I'll put up some chicken wire. Then, upon closer inspection of one of the broken vines, a green worm falls out.... hmmm, that's not good.

I run to the computer and find out that my crop is infested with Vine Borers, which are inserted in the garden by pretty black and orange moths... hmmm could it be, this guy?

The pretty little "butterfly" that I took so many pictures of last weekend? #%*%@!!!!!!!!!!! I should have known!!! UGH!!!

Next time I see one, I'll wave my arms like a crazy lunitic to chase it out of my garden.

Now I just hope that I can save my vines. I clipped the damaged parts off and sprayed them. I'll know wheter or not it's helping this afternoon.

Edgar's Stone

My Parents are AWESOME!

Found this in my backyard last night =) They are so sweet! They spent most of the day building it =) Who could ask for better parents? Thanks guys!!!

Leafy Green

My vines are really taking off, especially with all of the rain that's been coming down. I may not have fruit till Thanksgiving or Christmas, but pumpkins are always welcome in this house =) Year round!

Milton's Progress

Milton got the rest of his bones this weekend and two coats of primer. Now I need to start the tedious task of creating his fingers. I used foil on Edgar, but I'm not so sure that I want to use that same method on Milton.

I've been doing some research on the authors that I'm naming my groundbreakers after. It helps me give them different personalities. Milton, I discovered, went blind before he died, so I thought about putting a blind fold type piece of tattered cloth over his eyes. I also found out that when a church was being constructed, his grave was disturbed. As the story goes, the men who realized that the grave was that of Milton's took some of his hair and almost all of his teeth as momentos. That gave me the creeps. So, I'll be giving him hair and also I'll be combing through his famous quotes to find something that will match his story. Something that gives that message that he's coming for those that disturbed his eternal rest. >=)