AWWWWW, Summer is really over!

I always postpone getting ready for winter by pulling out my summer flowers. It's hard for me to admit that temperatures are dipping down and several times now the flowers have frozen overnight. The zinnias that used to be beautiful orange and pink are now crusty and brown, so I got to it and on Saturday cleaned out the flower beds. It always kills me to throw all these flowers away. Did you know that if you dig up your geraniums before they freeze you can save them until next year. We have been doing this for several years and in the spring you have an enormous blooming geranium. Last weekend before I left on Friday, I heard it was going to freeze and so I dug them up, each with a pretty large root ball of dirt and placed them in a shallow rubbermaid tub, I squished them all together. I put them in the garage, it's best to put them on an inside wall to your house (it's warmer), water them every once in awhile throughout the winter, and in the spring they will re-bloom into gorgeous plants!
I have a hard time with empty pots, so in the window box after I pulled all the summer flowers out, I planted some pansies that will go from fall to spring.
I was busy in the yard for a big part of the day, cleaning the beds, mowing the lawn, moving things inside to prepare for colder temperatures. The kids had friends over which is great, they played outside and inside on the game cube or wii. However, this is the thing that killed me. Around noon I went to Costco and got a few things, one being the !!!4 lb !!! container of grapes. Around 6 when I came inside, this is all that was left. I'm not really mad or anything, at least they're grapes instead of candy right? I just can never get over how quickly things disappear from our kitchen. Having 5 kids, boys nonetheless, food vanishes. And if I ask who ate it................well, nobody did it....it wasn't me. I guess it's something I won't ever get used to. And, really it's going to get worse as they get older. At our house a box of 6 something is a single serving and if everyone has one sandwich, a loaf of bread is lunch with not much else to spare. I have YEARS to deal with this. Really though, I wouldn't have it any other way!