Where the Wild Things Grow

Many things in our lives have been neglected this summer. None more than our home. We have a garden that we have barely harvested (although it isn't that fun to harvest a garden that you can eat NOTHING out of--thank you to Matilda's acid reflux and food allergie)s. Flowers that are wilted. Bushes that are dead. Herbs that are dried to a crisp.

And we have this:

Yes, take a closer look. That is a WILD squash plant growing. In. Our. Front. Yard. Seriously now. It looks ridiculous.

But to be honest I am so impressed that this sucker grew from what I can only assume is an ornamental squash I put in our fall window boxes last year, and has survived all summer long, with no TLC, when everything else around our home has died. I mean check out the flower boxes. They actually GOT some love in the form of morning waterings and they are toast. Not this squash plant. But it lives.

And you know what...it has little cute ornamental gourds growing on it. So does it look ridiculous? Yes. Are our neighbors probably worrying about the resale value of their homes living next to us right now? Most likely.

But who is going to be jealous of all the cute little squash we have? Mmm hmmm. That's right.

And hopefully my super cute fall window boxes will make up for it (well that and Nate hacking the thing down in a few weeks...)