Matt's Fall Harvest

It was time to pick gourds and pumpkins. Some of the vines are dieing and drying out so I thought I'd pick some of my gourds before the rot. I'm using them to decorate the front porch of my home. I also picked four of my five pumpkins too even thou they didn't grow bigger than I'd hoped and one had a hole in it and was rotting. I plan on planting some more fall stuff next year and hopefully they will do better.

I also changed the my blog colors for Fall and updated it...Matt

Joined a Halloween/Fall Swap

I just joined a Halloween/Fall tonight on the sweepstakes site "OLS" that I use to enter my sweepstakes. This swap is kind of like a secret Santa thing online. I listed things I like on OLS and a another person in the swap becomes my swap buddy and sends me a box of goodies and I get a swap buddy to send stuff they like. I've been in this swap the past two years and it gives me something fun to do during the Fall/Halloween season.

This is my third year doing this swap. The first year I did this swap kind of sucked. I got a lot of things I couldn't use. I even got a lot of old used things non fall or Halloween related but the host of the swap made up for it and sent me a gift card. She is so nice. Last years swap stuff I got made up for the crappy stuff I got the first year. I got lots of candy and decorations and other neat stuff. I plan on blogging about what I get this year and posting pictures of what I got so check back soon for an update. I love doing swaps even tho mostly ladies do them.

A hen that doesn't want to be a wet hen...

The gray chicken I've posted about before in this blog is ether the oddest or smartest chicken I've seen. It's was one of my brother chickens who lives next door to me but now my mom clams her and now that the dry spill this summer is over this hen wants to stay on our back porch and sleep with our cats. btw...Our cats our scared of it and wont get near her because she chases after them if they get near her. lol...It was funny watching my cat Casper get chased by her the other day.

My mom wants to make her a small hen house so she would be safe from wild animals and stray dogs that might kill her in the night.






I do have some bad news to blog about. Someone stole my brother's tame father goose that he's had for many years. I posted pictures of him on my blog before. We thought maybe some wild animal might of got him but we didn't see any signs that this is what happened. I'm really sad about this because our family loved that goose because he was so friendly. I'm going to really miss seeing him around the house. :-(

First pictures of my Gourds and Pumpkins

I have Gourds and Pumpkins!! Here are some pictures of my first gourds and pumpkins that I planted growing. Hope to have many more by this fall...Matt

Peaches, Blackberries and a Happy Hen

Thought I post some pictures of some more stuff growing and living around my house.

I posted a few months ago a picture of my dad's peaches growing but they where mostly green then. Here is new pictures of them, bigger and starting to ripening. There is also some blackberry bushes close to our garden that has berries on them. I took a few pictures of some of the berries for you to see.

Also there's a small gray chicken in our yard. It's one of my brother's chickens. It decided to come from next door at his house to live down here with us. My mom feeds it bird seed from time to time and it's seems to be a very nice and happy little hen. I usually name the chickens that hang out in my yard. I need to think of a name for her. I named the last two hens "Thelma & Louise" from the movie with the same name, that use to come by here to hang out.

-Matt-

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Blockbuster Widget: 25 Movies I Like

I'm a big movie fan so when I seen widgets on Blockbuster's website I thought I'd add one to my blog that lists 25 movies that I like. There not really in there order that I want them to be but so there not my top 25 but still I thought it be nice add it to my blog.

Look for it on the right side of my blog's home page...Matt ------------->

Pumpkin Flowers & Climbing Gourds

It's been almost a month since I last showed you pictures of my pumpkin plants.

Thought I'd update you all on the stuff I planted for this fall. As you can see my pumpkins patch now has flowers in it. Some of the pretty yellow flowers have pumpkins coming out of them and I happened to take a few pictures of a happy little bumble bee in them. I'm also happy see there getting palliated. Wish I would of took time to take pictures of the flowers when they at there prettiest.

There been a few signs of deer near by, I hope they stay out of the garden.

My gourd vines are growing high too. A friend of mine already has some nice sized gourds on her vines. I hope to see the same on mine too very soon...Matt

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