Too Many Pumpkins

Is there such a thing as too many pumpkins? We think not! Each year we buy a ridiculous number of pumpkins.  There is something about them that attracts us.

Is it their marvelous orange colour?  Their interesting shapes?  The fun we have carving them?

Pumpkin Carving - messy fingers!

Happy Halloween

Their size?

Giant Pumpkins grown in the Dill Pumpkin Patch, Windsor, Nova Scotia

I don't know, all I do know is that one is NEVER enough!

Indian Garden Farms, Hebbville, Nova Scotia

Say Goodnight to Rogues Delight

Perfect boating weather.

 The boating season has been fraught with mishaps and missed opportunities for us this year.  We had too many "technical difficulties".  I can count the number of times I went out on Rogues Delight on one hand!  Its a terrible shame to have a boat and not be able to use it.   

The docks are coming out on Saturday, so we pulled the boat out of the water today.   I am so glad that we were able to go for one more cruise with the Rogue on Monday.  It was the perfect boating day!

Here are a few pictures of Shelburne Harbour all dressed up in its Fall colours.  I could not resist, the colours were vivid and the waters were calm - just look at those reflections!

Reflections on the Water

A Tranquil Bay

Fall is in the Air

Hasn't the summer flown by quickly!

To mark the start of Fall, we spent the day working in the garden.  This year we grew a really good crop of weeds in our vegetable garden.   It was sad to see the beautiful raised beds we had so eagerly built a year ago overgrown with grasses and clover.  So ... we spent a few hours weeding, turning the soil and generally getting the garden ready for a fall planting of garlic bulbs.  

Planting Garlic

 We are trying three different varieties.  One I bought from a lady in Pubnico on Saturday at the Mile Long Yard Sale; another from Uncle Sid's and the third from another local gardener. 

Ready for Planting

Don't they look nice all planted in a row.

Now all we have to do is  w a i t.