For the third year in a row, we hit up the Harvest Valley pumpkin patch! Rainy weather had kept us away last weekend, and we were quickly running out of time to get some pumpkins. On Sunday we had some colder weather, but no rain, so we bundled up and headed to the patch.
We were greeted by minions!
Off to the fields! The fields were picked over, and far more pumpkins were mid-rot than ready to be taken home, but we managed to find some great candidates for carving.
With our bounty! We headed to the scales to pay for the pumpkins, and added some tomatoes, apples, a whoopie pie, and some caramel apples to the tab.
Britton wanted to do the hayride, and luckily Memaw had enough quarters for us to get on!
We were ready for some warming up, so we got some hot apple cider and turnovers, then snacked on the hay bales. Let me tell you what you don't see - there was a woman named Sandy (so said her sign) who was singing on a small stage. She had a great voice, but her song selections were just so morose! We made it through "We've Only Just Begun" and then she started in on some other equally downer song, and we gave up and decided to leave. We needed to get carving anyways!
After cleaning out the pumpkins (can there be a more squishy job?) we let Britton draw out the face on one. Another one the hubs drilled various-sized holes with his drill, which I had seen in one of the 100 magazines I get per month. For the third pumpkin I carved the face (in Britton's lap below).
Britton with her design. Now we're ready for Halloween!
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