Birthday Girl and Our Lone Pumpkin

We finally had a weekend at home after traveling for the last three weekends.  I would love to say that we used it so productively, but mostly we enjoyed just vegetating along with just a little bit of cooking.  The weather continues to be a little cooler than normal but we haven't had to worry about snow yet although we have dipped below freezing a few nights.  We finally picked our lone pumpkin to decorate our front door.  Even though we planted multiple seeds and had plants that draped all over the bushes on one side of the house, we only managed to have one pumpkin grow.  But it is the largest pumpkin we have ever harvested and it managed it without any routine watering through our drought this summer.  The only funky thing is that it is still mostly green.  We aren't exactly sure what the trick is for turning your pumpkin orange - we just thought that was something that happened naturally.  But even though it is green we still are displaying it proudly by the front door.

Friday night we enjoyed home made sausage pizza - the pizza was homemade, we bought the sausage as we aren't into grinding our own meat products, yet.  We also had an early celebration of Jo's birthday with a homemade banoffee pie (for those not familiar with this UK taste treat, it is bananas, whipped cream and toffee - yum) and in interest of not setting the house on fire we used number candles instead of putting lots of individual ones on the pie.  We then settled in the family room to catch up on some taped shows with a full stomach of pie.

Saturday dawned rainy so instead of an early morning run we headed to the gym for some cardio and lifting.  After enjoying watching the Badgers win over Purdue, Jo spent the rest of the afternoon reading while I did a few outside chores.  That evening we had dinner with Tim and Rosalie and then took in the show, Microcrisis at the Next Act Theater.  Interesting show as it parodied the CDO crisis in mortgages and actually did a really good job of explaining it using microcredit loans.  Sunday morning was rainy again so after working out downstairs we both plopped in front of the fireplace to read the newspaper.  The afternoon found both of us catching up on some sleep and all to soon it was evening and time to ready ourselves for the following week.