"The Harvest Has Come!"

While our Palisade Branch Library was closed last month, we hosted story time with a few friends at our house. I was reading this great book about the harvest and Cecilia, overcome with emotion jumped up and, very dramatically said, "The harvest has come." (Imagine Cecilia as Abraham Lincoln, giving a speech.) It was hilarious.

Anyway, here are some pictures of the pumpkins we grew in our garden, the bazillions of gourdes, some of our first eggs from the Silver Laced Wyandott chickens, green tomatoes that I wish would hurry up and ripen and our friendly garden spiders. Although the one with the gigantic white abdomen could actually be a Western Widow Spider, not as venomous as the Black Widow but every bit as huge. Hopefully all the spiders are whispering of our kindness to spiders, especially the ones that keep biting me while I sleep, right this minute.