Howdy folks!

Finally, another HUMP DAY, and I am getting around to sharing my last Autumn Wind freebie with you. It's a set of two quick pages. I just realized as I was throwing together the little preview, though, that they are 200 ppi. I think the Color Blast ones may have been too. I apologize for that -- all of my stuff is usually 300, but I did these about a year ago and I have no idea why they aren't 300 ppi!!! But you can still use them in mini books JUST fine at that resolution! Just don't use them larger than 5x5 or they'll pixilate.

Here's a preview:

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST IN MY FREEBIE DOWNLOAD SERIES. THIS PARTICULAR DOWNLOAD HAS EXPIRED!

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST IN MY FREEBIE DOWNLOAD SERIES. THIS PARTICULAR DOWNLOAD HAS EXPIRED!

You can download them here. Leave me some comment luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv if you download!

Now, on to the squirrel story I promised you a few weeks ago -- you'll see why I saved it for today in a little while!

The first autumn we lived in our house (three years ago, now), the squirrels in our yard kept insisting on eating the REAL pumpkins I'd had displayed on our front steps. And I had not been able to suss out any pumpkin damage among any of the other people in our neighborhood who had real pumpkins out in their yards. Why me, I kept wondering? Were the squirrels terrorizing me because I was new in town? They made short order out of one of the original two I bought that season. So I bought more, and they got into one of those as well. So I then had two pumpkins I had to throw out in the compost pile, four unscathed pumpkins in my garage, and some very full squirrels running around in my trees.

I'm not sure why I thought they wouldn't eat new pumpkins, but it made sense at the time, somehow. I was so mad because I'd bought the new set of pumpkins on my way home from running some errands, put them out, and several hours later, when the UPS guy came to pickup an outgoing package I had, there were already three big "eaten" patches in one of the brand new pumpkins. It looked like a squirrel had literally carved out two eyes and a nose. The UPS guy said we have artistic squirrels. Meanwhile, I was thinking maybe I could advertise it as magic pumpkin-carving squirrels and collect money for people to come see it, right? ;)

There isn't a lot to deter squirrels, I found out from some quick 'net research, except pepper spray, bobcat urine, and human urine. Short of having Mike pee on the pumpkins, I didn't think the ones I'd stashed temporarily in the garage would last long back out on the steps. I then found a place online that said squirrels don't like Lysol. So I sprayed Lysol on the pumpkins and put them back out. The Lysol worked. They stayed away... until... it rained and the rain washed off the Lysol overnight. By the next morning, my pumpkins were half-eaten...

I no longer put out real pumpkins on my steps. My trees have plenty of acorns to feed the squirrels in my yard, after all, so they need not feast on my pumpkins. I got pictures of one of the guilty parties at work. And I, naturally, scrapped it last year... using the same quick pages I'm giving away today. Here are the layouts so you can see the damage (and the squirrel tail hanging out of the pumpkin -- talk about being caught in the act!):

See, I told you I had freaky squirrels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!