Weekend Snapshot #6

Weekend Snapshot

One of my favorite things to do in the fall is to visit a family farm open to the public for picking pumpkins, hayrides and what have you. We finally had a perfect autumn like weekend and so on Sunday, we piled into the van and went to Johnson's Farm, about 40 minutes south of us.



Johnson's is a large farm and they have a lot of different activities, I was pleased to see ... at first. You could go on a hayride and either pick your own pumpkins or take the easy way out and just pick them at their market.



Here's the thing...they have a real racket going on and I bet they make plenty of money. The place was packed! However, instead of charging one admission price, you had to buy tickets to any of the activities you wanted to go to. They were selling 5 tickets for $13.75. There were 7 of us all together and we didn't want to do all five activities if for no other reason that they were for little kids, not adults--like the moonbounce. It cost us almost $21 just to get into the feeding zoo and would cost another $21 for all of us to ride the hayride, another $21 for the corn maze, another $21 for ...well, you get the idea.



We decided to go for the feeding zoo because we figured T would enjoy that the most. I think we were right--he loved feeding the animals!



This baby goat was standing on a big concrete sewer pipe that was in its pen. It wasn't being used for sewage or anything...I think it was there to act as a mountain? Goats like to climb!



The girls enjoyed visiting "the three little pigs"...they were not little!



Here Tomas was watching the ducks swimming around in a murky pond. I heard him say "water" and I wonder what he was thinking?



Cows slept in a shed in the same pen with the goats. They sure looked comfortable!



Tomas seems to be saying, hey, we need more food here for these animals!

Even though we didn't get to do everything I'd hoped we still had a great time! I'm still in the process of weeding through the pictures and labelling them on our photo gallery. If you're interested in seeing more of them, just click on this next picture!

Orange

Orange is just beginning to appear in the trees around here but mostly it seems to be the color of the sun. It's been in the high 80s the last several days, more like summer than fall and it just ain't natural. I went back to last October to find some pictures of orange but that's what photo ferreting is all about then, right?



Last year, on a glorious October Saturday or Sunday, we went to the Emmons Farm to pick pumpkins. Little T seemed to get right into it and enjoyed walking up and down the rutted paths looking for the perfect pumpkins. We wanted more than one to bring home, one for each of the girls and one for Tomas.



Tomas follows his Aunt Heidi down one path. He might have been to a pumpkin patch the previous year with his daddy. He seemed to be a pro at it.



We got the wagon loaded up with our bounty and it was a little too heavy for just one person drag. As the song goes in The Wonder Pets (one of T's favorites): "What's it going to take? Teamwork! What's it going to take? Teamwork!"



After we paid for our pumpkins, we decided to go on a hayride. I had a little trouble climbing up because of my ankle. We weren't sure at first Tomas would go for it and he hung back, clearly afraid. But his pop-pop carried him onto the wagon and he sat between his mommy and me. He still seemed unsure as we got underway but by the time we got back, he was having fun again.

Hopefully the weather will get seasonable enough for us to go pumpkin picking this year...soon!

Foto Pherrets