Actually it’s already fall, but we won’t bother with the details. I took about 10 apples from the batch we picked at the U-Pick farm yesterday and made apple butter.
While the apples were cooking down, I went out in the garden and ripped out the butternut squash. I harvested another 8 squash off the vine. That makes for a total of roughly 25 squash from 2 plants. I’d have to say that’s down right the best squash harvest I’ve ever had. The total area used by the squash plant was close to 300 square feet though! And I had planned on putting it in a 2×2 foot square and a trellis. Oops! I don’t know where I’m going to put it next year. I’m thinking I should eyeball the backyard again. It just might get 6 hours of sun in the middle of summer, but I don’t know. It would be close with all the mature trees around.
I also took another look at those spare glass window things in the garden shed. They look to be storm windows of some kind, but I don’t know how they would have been installed. But one thing my wife noticed was that it looks like each of them is a two piece unit. The frame has a gasket and channel that can be screwed/nailed into a piece of wood. And the actual glass panel slides into a groove in the frame. I did a quick eyeball measurement and 4 of them would cover one of the 4×8 raised garden beds. If I use 8 of them, 4 on each side, I could build a small greenhouse or large cold frame. It wouldn’t be big enough to walk into, but it would be tall enough to possibly leave it up year round using screens in the frame instead of glass. 
That would resolve the squirrel, skunk and raccoon problem. I’d want to make it portable, which adds some complexity to the design. The idea being to build 4 sections that can be attached together. Yet each of the sections can be carried by two adults.
I don’t know if I’ll have time to take a shot at building the greenhouse so I put up the hoops for the low tunnel, just in case we get a cold night in the next few weeks. The average first frost is only 15 days away. I don’t expect the two tomato plants to survive but it’s an experiment. I’ll let them run on the ground and do what they can do in the time that’s left in the season.