Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday I took the children to the Red Barn for our second annual Fall hay ride. Unfortunately about 20 minutes before we left Jacob managed to cut his head a little bit and then freak out about it. After I calmed him down and showed him that he had not actually slit his head clear open it just bleeds a lot, I did a little doctoring with New Skin, a glue type stuff. I think I went a little crazy with it because it glued his hair together in one spot and it wouldn't lay down straight. He wasn't bleeding anymore though so we finally packed up and left.

While we were waiting for our turn we had a snack of apple doughnuts and cider. Then the kids loaded up on the wagons which were pulled by a tractor and we were off to the pumpkin patch. Everyone loved the bumpy ride and we had the whole patch to choose from. This actually turned out to be a bad thing, but they finally were able to pick out the perfect pumpkins.


When we were finished, we picked up a couple extra doughnuts for dad and a bag of Johnigold apples and came back home. It turned about to be a very fun trip.

Harvest Season

This week I've been anxiously engaged in boosting our food storage and putting some things away for winter. We brought in a seriously good haul from my mom and dad's last weekend. We raided their garden and brought home some potatoes, onions, banana squash. My mom even gave us some of her raspberry jam from the berries we picked a while back.

On Monday I picked up three boxes of peaches. I bottled some, made peach/raspberry syrup (it was supposed to be jam, oh well), and fruit leather. I still have a box left and I'm planning to just cut them into slices and freeze them. Our new freezer is going to be delivered tomorrow, hurray! Now we can free up some space in my mom's freezer in Fayette.

And for my next project, my neighbor is giving me some tomatoes and I'm going to dry them. We'll see how that works out. Apple season is just around the corner so I'll be making my apple pie filling very shortly.

I've also been putting my garden away for the winter. My tomatoe plant that is loaded with green tomatoes does have a few ripe ones still. Maybe I'll just cover it up before the frost gets to them. I hate to see them go to waste. It's a fun season.