Awesome job, Joe!! I just peeked through all of them and it looks like a blast! Thank you for letting us get a look at it. BB [Pirate :] and I made a day of it, cheering folks at the hospital all day between a morning and night event. He fell asleep on the bench on the sidewalk after about a half hour of our little version of the parade :) s*cky cellphone nighttime pic but I couldn't resist that little face!

poaky1: Which tree is disappionting, the small cedar or the big pine? The big pine is growing next to a summer house, is healthy, and has never caused any problems (apart from pine needles in the gutters). A tree too close to the house is a potential disaster, but sometimes you get lucky and nothing bad happens. No one uses the place in the winter, so if a branch fell due to snow no one would be there to be hurt by that. The wooded look is the whole point of the summer place...my great grandfather owned the place next door. One of his kids chopped down the trees around it, and the place wasn't the same after. (Eg too hot without the shade). My grandfather responded by buying this place. As for the small Eastern Red Cedar near the basement...yes, that is a problem. It's at my parent's house. I keep meaning to try to try to transplant it, but never get a chance. I may have waited to long...I'm worried about the hole next to foundation that would be created if I dug it up. Probably this fall.

It is probable to do with the smoke and heat produced by the candle as slugs love and thrive on moisture if you wanted to find out experimentally why then you could try setting up a series of pumpkin experiments such as one scored and one cut neither of which has candles or a scored and a cut both with candles, as it could be due to the moisture content or could be that the cut pumpkin is rotting quicker than the scored so is less appatising

That's pretty cute, but even clicking on it, it's small. Those do look like great hips and color though. Nice way to express it too.