I have a dear friend in her sixties who is raising her grandchildren. Last spring, she and the two little ones (2 and 4) went on a planting spree: tomatoes in bags, squash in buckets, cucumbers in pots....and watermelons in her flower beds. NEVER did she expect to actually pick watermelons, but so help me, she did. Dozens of sweet, small watermelons to the sheer delight of the children.

Fall came, temperatures began to cool and those vines running rampant through the roses and ornamental grasses continued to set fruit.

So, what did she do? One Sunday afternoon, she and the children went outside and painted those watermelons with a bright shiny orange spray paint. Then they set up hay bales and dressed scarecrow witches sitting on top. I tell you, I laugh out loud everytime I pass by her house... And I have to look sharp, because it has become a good place to have a rear end collision!