Me and my green thumb, hahaha

This morning I decided to tackle our yard. It has been 3 weeks since I last mowed our lawn. It has been over a month since I last weeded our garden. It would be an understatement to say that they were sorely needing my attention. Really I've been occupied with other matters and just couldn't find the time to spend in the yard. Besides it has been raining a lot the last couple of weeks.

I realized when I went to start the mower that it is broken and is in need of some attention from my husband, so I tackled the garden.

I should have taken a before picture so you could see just how bad it looked. Even now it doesn't look good. In the picture you can't really see all the weeds. The big yellow thing you see is a yellow squash, only I think it looks more like a yellow zucchini.

This is the pile of weeds, mostly the weed from H-E-double hockey sticks morning glory. As you can see my grass is so long it nearly covers the weeds. We only have a couple of pumpkins so far. The first year we had a garden the pumpkins nearly took over the garden. Last year we didn't get any.

This plant, which happens to be the biggest in the garden, came up all on it's own. Meaning, we didn't plant it. It started growing outside of the garden even. We were curious as to what it would turn into.
We think that it is a cross between a yellow squash and an acorn squash. Somebody was staying warm in the garden during the winter. I'm just sayin....

Sadly, I don't have the bounteous harvest of Zucchini that I've had in the past so I can't shred it and freeze it and then throw it away next year because I didn't do anything with it. Maybe I can actually use the small amount of zucchini I have this year.