Day 4: Early Pumpkin Picking

Although we normally wait until October for this one, today we went into our paltry garden and gathered what little crops we could find there. SPOILER ALERT: there weren't too many.

Seriously, this is about it.

A couple years ago, we harvested nearly fifty pumpkins from our garden. This year is not so bountiful. Even if all the pumpkins ultimately mature (which is asking a lot since squash are notoriously childish), we'll get no more than nine pumpkins total. Nine. It's a sad number, but we do our best, even if our best isn't good enough.

Perhaps, our lack of harvest could have something to do with all these weeds.

Too much rain, then too little rain, as well as
the invading deer didn't do us any favors either...

At least one individual was quite fascinated with our sad harvest, since she was watching from the window and offering directions throughout the process.

"What are you filthy humans doing outside? Don't
you know you should be in here feeding me?"

If nothing else, plucking that first pumpkin from the garden always gives me a bit of thrill each year. Even if this year I know it's pretty much the *only* pumpkin.

Ain't life grand?

"No, life is NOT grand! Stop with the
Halloween antics, and feed me!"

This year was quite thrilling because we got to fail at growing
both pie pumpkins AND jack o' lantern pumpkins!

"I don't care about your damn varieties of pumpkin!
GET IN HERE AND FEED ME!"

This is a pumpkin pie in the making!

"Fine, go ahead and talk about food in front of me.
It's alright. I'll just sit here and starve. Skull and
bones kitty, that's what they'll call me."

So that's our crop for this year. Join us tomorrow
for more Halloween tomfoolery!

"You won't be able to join me because the humans will
have let me starve. TO DEATH. *sigh*"

EDITOR'S NOTE: Don't let these captions fool you. Rose of Sharon was fed less than twelve hours ago.

CAT'S NOTE: Halloween bloggers lie. THEY. LIE.