They Sprouted Overnight!

I have 38 (and counting!) delicata squash sprout overnight from one spoiled and moldy (ewwww) squash.
I stuffed it in the mound of compost I'd set out to grow my two little Moon & Stars watermelon seedlings.
The delicatas just popped up! Over night! After a couple of good night rains.
Luckily there was still a section of the garden where I'd planted clover cover crop last winter. The clover has died back. I chopped out five rows, added some more compost and tucked the little seedlings in, watered heavily. I left one sprout at the base of the watermelon growing mound. Now the waiting begins.

Thirty-eight! And then this morning as I watered the watermelons I notices that another delicata squash sprout had popped up.

I'm going to let as many grow as will and give some seedlings to the new garden project I'm helping get started for Loaves & Fishes. Later, if they all produce delicata squash, I'll donate some of them to the Loaves & Fishes kitchen for meals.

I'll add some photos and more about the Loaves & Fishes Garden Project later.

Is this an episode of Laurel & Hardy or Green Acres?

So, we were trying to catch the raccoon that was coming in the cat door. We borrowed a HavaHart trap. The raccoon stopped coming in the house when we set the trap INSIDE the cat door!
Blast!

Then a couple of nights ago I saw it in the compost bin outside our kitchen window (makes for quick easy composting especially in the winter. So, I put the top section back on so the raccoon couldn't get into it anymore but we can still dump stuff from the kitchen. AND I had the brilliant idea to set the HavaHart trap next to the compost bin. The raccoon pushed the trap away from the compost bin, triggered the trap without going into it. Blast!

But we left it out there a couple of nights more and changed the bait to see if that was more attractive.

Last night/early this morning, I smelled skunk again. *sigh* Closed the bedroom windows.

This morning I noticed the trap had be triggered. I slowly peeked around the compost bin. There really was someone in the HavaHart trap. A skunk!!

I went back to bed. I told Schatzi. He muttered "Well. We can't return the trap today," then rolled over and went back to sleep. Sometimes it's better to laugh than cry.

Oh, and we have guests coming over for a pot luck tonight so we HAVE to re-locate the skunk in the next two hours!