October 30, Fall, year 20

It's Halloween already? Man, the year seems to be just flying by! It'll be Jack's birthday in a couple of days too, so I've been making the honey-grapes for him. Plus extra to pass out tonight. I know the only kids in the Valley are Kate and Hugh, but Popi likes to stop by too, and besides, I want some of my own. It's a good sugary treat after all.

The kittens are rambunctious bundles of fluff and fur now, which is wonderful. I've started giving them wet food and dry food as well as the milk supplement, so soon enough they should graduate to only dry food. And then I can stop paying the Harvest Sprites to do my work for me.

I've caught Skye at midnight weeding a couple of times. It's cute, and very sweet. He really does seem sincere about helping me out for a while. It makes me wonder a bit, if he's doing it to assuage his guilt or if it might be something more.

Hah. Weeding as a way of trying to romance someone. That's funny. Clearly I need to get out and talk with the girls more.

Speaking of the girls, Muffy dropped by the other day, burbling with happiness. It seems that she and Griffin went down to the beach on the day of the Moon Viewing festival and had a wonderful time together. Which is great! Muffy was pretty torn up about the last break up she had, so it's awesome that Griffin and her can be happy together.

I'm kinda hoping that soon enough he'll ask her to marry him. It ought to be cute! And then Muffy can be the lady of the Valley until the other couples finally bite the bullet and propose.

…and suddenly I foresee a rush of Winter and Spring weddings. Oh dear… Maybe I can get come help from Lauren, because there's no way that I'm going to avoid being a bridesmaid for at least one of them!

It's a good think my pumpkins finally grew. I kinda wish I could find orange pumpkin seeds though. Green pumpkins just don't have the same feel to them. Y'know, not that I can do anything about it. Vesta's experimented with growing orange pumpkins actually, but the season ends before they're properly ripened.

Which says a lot considering that the longest it take any normal fruit-or-vegetable to grow is the pineapple at twenty-five freaking days. Stupid yummy pineapples that take forever and a day…

Oh, I'd forgotten… I got a couple more sprite! A team leader… Canary yellow, I think. Which makes sense since my birds are all laying and several of them are nesting. I think I've got almost twenty now… makes me really glad the bird sheds hold eight each, I'd be in a serious situation if they were less. And the eggs I get are used in everything so it's good the I have so many.

Doesn't hurt that they're all adorable!

Uh… what was that other one…? One of the red team, I think. Takakura brought me some sort of brushing glove that's supposed to help with shedding animals. The dogs love it, the cats love it and Honey loves it. It's extremely useful… thought there's several piles of fur in and around the house. I swear, there's enough to make like four or five more animals.

And while I love my gang, even I know that's a bit of crazy… though I have been thinking that Jill and I should breed Cinnamon and Honey. I'll have to make a note of it on the calendar and call her.

Or, the dog races are coming up. I can ask her then!

That ought to be fun. I think I'm going to test it with Puppy this time instead of Dakota. She's getting pretty old after all, and it's getting chillier. She limps a bit, so I think she's got some form of arthritis now… I should probably ask Uncle T though, he's raised more dogs than I've raised cats! Or maybe Barley?

Ack, there's the phone!