I've bitten off way more than I can chew lately but on a positive note I think the Japanese beetles learned not to fuck with me. At least that's what it seems like after I bashed them with a shovel last night and left their corpses as warnings to the others. I can't see as many today and normally no matter how many you kill they still seem to multiple. I read leaving piles of dead ones out or liquefying dead ones to spray on plants can be a helpful deterrent. I'm going to be building some bat houses to put around the yard because the bats will eat them along with other annoying flying insects too as an extra measure. This really slowed down progress on redoing the gardens but it's probably a good thing since I don't exactly have the design down yet. I actually might look forward to this winter since I'll just be done with it all whether I want to be or not.