You may recall that we were inundated with potatoes from our farm share this fall. The other day I took a look in the basement at the potato baskets and it was like a creepy horror show. Look how tall the eyes have sprouted!!! We will not be eating these, needless to say.
The gingerbread house was put out onto our picnic table with a hefty dose of birdseed as a treat for the birds and squirrels. Here’s a happy fat squirrel enjoying it:
I swore that once my January stuff was finished I’d start devoting more time to my sewing/crafts/projects and I have at least started something ( a heart garland for Valentine’s Day), but am having trouble finishing it. Our Sunday morning was spent, as usual, just cleaning up toys. I swear our house looks like a toy store. In part because we don’t have much storage, in part because we delight in buying toys possibly more than our children delight in having them, and in part because let’s face it, playing is more fun than tidying. Anyway, hope to have something up here soon showing the latest crafty development. I also want to do more embroidery!
So what? Sew buttons! 
Wow! Those taters are out of control – they look so cool! I grew potatoes for the first time this past year and they were so awesome. I had a few kinds, and some did better than others, but I also planted WAY too many and didn’t get to all of them before it was too late in the season. I’m a big fan of the red skin potatoes, so I’m definitely going to plant some of those again this year.
Eekkk… that is a horror show. I just had to comment on your squirrel and his gingerbread house – very cute. I had a lovely display this fall on the front steps of my new house – a scarecrow, a bale of hay, and 3 pumpkins. One morning I found one of the pumpkins had been eviscerated – pumpkin guts everywhere. The other 2 only lasted about another day. We have PSYCHOTIC squirrels in my neighborhood that ate EVERYONE’s pumpkins. I was horrified. No such thing ever happened to our pumpkins in NY. Is this a new phenomenon or are the Jersey squirrels pumpkin killers too? (Yours are probably not since you feed them yummy gingerbread houses.)
Psychotic squirrels eviscerating pumpkins!! That’s nutty. I’ve never had that happen either. Our squirrels mostly feast on our birdfeeders.
HAHAHAHA! Those potatoes are awesome! I kept our farm potatoes in a paper bag in the pantry, and figured they were probably still fine… Then, when I went to make dinner with them and opened the bag, it was like your horror movie, only without any light, so the sprouts were all white. And in the shape of the inside of the paper bag. It was pretty awesome, despite derailing our dinner plans. Heh.
That’s so cute that you fed the gingerbread house to the squirrels! I can second Kathleen’s tale of psychotic squirrels, too — they do that to the pumpkins at Maple Hoo.