October

I love this weather!  Cool nights and warm days in the 70s and even the 80s.  We had a cool spell where it was only getting up to about 60 degrees and I didn't enjoy that nearly as much as they warmer days.  Himself loves, loves, LOVES October and November and all fall weather!  It gets down to 65 degrees and I'm putting a sweatshirt on my arms.  I can wear shorts and sandels and no socks . . . but I have to keep my arms warm.  Himself doesn't need a jacket or sweatshirt until it is more like in the 55 degree range. 

This is last year, 2009.  October 23, 2009.

Wasn't it pretty? 

This year, we nowhere have this much color yet.

Last  year, Des Moines had snow on October 6 or 8 or somewhere in there, I heard on the radio.  This year, I still have cucumber vines, green peppers, tomatoes and even a few radishes, growing in the garden.  I am planning and thinking -- studying on how to build little A-frame greenhouses around these last vegetables so as to get the fruit to maturity.  I have an abundance of old windows to use now that Himself and Dana and Nick replaced each and every window in our house.  Maybe this weather will hold another month and I won't have to resort to little greenhouses?

I love the internet!  Have an idea and "google" it or use your favorite search engine, and whatever you are imagining, is already in the internet!  Well, maybe not exactly, because I was thinking about little A-Frame greenhouses and I didn't find a picture of one of those but maybe I just didn't search by the right word.  Anyway, look at these little greenhouses all made out of used, wooden windows. 

These three photographs respectfully "borrowed" from the internet but not for profit or gain.