We had a wonderful weekend! Yesterday I spent the morning cleaning the house while Art was off working somewhere. I am really impressed at how well he has adapted to working with one hand; he doesn't do as much as he did before, but he's getting along. He said his right-hand welding is really improving (even though he did come home with a burn mark on his splint). Last night I had some girlfriends over for an old-fashioned sleep-over. We ate pizza, watched a movie, had girl talk and even put someone's bra in the freezer (although we didn't wet it first so it didn't turn out to be as great a prank as we had hoped. I guess we're a little out of practice having not had a sleep-over in, like, fifteen years). We were going to play Truth Or Dare, but it was close to midnight by then and we were all sleepy. I know- midnight! Crazy times.

Today was a beautiful day- sunny and warm. The girls left after breakfast and Art mowed the grass for the last time this year while I took a nap to recover from my late night (I'm not fifteen anymore). I finished up laundry but mostly I sat in the sun and read my book, enjoying what is sure to be one of the few really nice days before it turns chilly.

I did spend a little time in the garden and even recovered another pumpkin! That makes a total of two pumpkins this year. I have one butternut squash that is almost ready and another that probably won't be ready before the vines die off. The green peppers are still going and I still have beans drying on the plants. I think the beans were my favorite this year because they required almost nothing from me; I weeded a handful of times but otherwise I just let the pods dry on the plant and picked them whenever I got around to it. Art felt really bad about the pumpkins and squash (mainly because he loves pumpkin butter and has grown to love squash) and said that next year he will hook up a hose from the shop to the pumpkin/squash patch so that I am able to water them easily everyday instead of carrying five-gallon pails of water once a week (if that).