We have had so much going on lately we ignored the 3 beautiful weekends in October and waited until the last minute when it was chilly and rainy to go pick our pumpkin. We went the Saturday before Halloween to a local patch I had been seeing signs for. My thinking was instead of driving the 30 minutes to the big farm we would contribute to our local economy and support our neighbors. As we were pulling down the lane and seeing the scariness Tom reached down to turn down the radio, I said "those dueling banjos are not on the radio". That kind of set the tone for the whole visit. The patch was dead, the pumpkins looked like they had been grown over 3 Mile Island and there was no one around. All this did not bother Annabelle of course, she wanted to run through the mud. I had her stop to check out a few pumpkins.
Then we decided this was too freaky for words and started to leave to drive to the big place. Annabelle started crying, she wanted a pumpkin. We walked over to where you pay and they had these little ones for $1 - she was thrilled! We left there with a happy child but no pumpkin. Annabelle fell asleep clutching her little pumpkin and we did not make it to the big farm.
The next day on the way home from church Mom & I saw one of our neighbors had a wagon load of pumpkins in their yard with a sign saying all donations would go to the Children's Diabetes Foundation. After lunch, Annabelle and I went down there and had a great time. The people were very nice, the pumpkins were beautiful and they let her crawl all over the wagon. We picked a nice one and took it home, feeling good about our charitable donation.
So next year we know. Next year we will make time to actually carve it too. We are so lame sometimes.
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You'll always remember your pumpkin patch visit in 2008 and know to go somewhere else in 2009! A is adorable as usual!!
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