Patience

It's been quite awhile and many little victories have amassed - I grew a whole patch of pumpkins and despite the squash bugs forcing me to put chickens in my patch and pluck several bugs off-plant and into water bowl for the chickens I did get 2 dozen pumpkins ranging from small to medium. I also harvested acorn squash, tomatoes and cukes. The best day this fall was not any of these though, it was the day my husband, Todd, harvested his first honey!!! You have to understand, this is the third year he's kept bees and the fourth colony he's raised - so we joke that it is $400 honey but it is a deep gold and as delicious as any I've ever tasted. We worked together to extract it and bottle it and though we got just enough to share with a few family members and for our pantry it was amazing to finally harvest it.