Last Week at the Pumpkin Patch

Yum, fall. Time for the annual celebration of October by the child coming up with improbable plans for Halloween then blaming me when they don’t work.

Mom, I don’t have the patience to sew ten stitches before I quit for days at a time, I’ve never sewn anything but punk patches on my clothes and I don’t have a pattern, but if you don’t buy me $50 worth of burlap two weeks before Halloween, it’s YOUR FAULT I can’t go as Oogie Boogie!

Along the same lines, every year the child pleads for a pumpkin she will carve into amazing and fantastical glory, but most of the time when I buy one, it rots before she does anything with it. In the past this has led to me not buying her pumpkins, but this year I decided, screw it. The actual acquisition of the pumpkin makes her happy. We can do that.

Also the pumpkin farm is about half an hour west of the city and I wanted to drive my precious. >_>

So we went. It’s a festival, with a lot of cool stuff gathered in one place to make a woman fly through her money. I knew that, and explained to the child as we drove that we would get the pumpkin first, and the more she spent on the pumpkin, the less went into other awesome things. Like tickets for the corn maze, or kettle corn, or pumpkin pie.

Why yes, that is a 60-or-so-pound pumpkin she picked out. So far it’s just sitting on the back porch being worth $30, but I’m sure she’ll do something with it any day now.

But hey. A great day was had. Also I somehow came home with pumpkin bread, kettle corn, and some really great apple cider, so I’m counting it as a win.

4 thoughts on “Last Week at the Pumpkin Patch”

  1. That looks like fun! I also loved huge pumpkins when I was younger. My parents had a 20 lb limit though. >_>

    And I DID carve them. In fact, I did those fancy Pumpkin Masters designs a few years. And once I carved one with the company logo for my current job and took it to work for my (reception) desk. I’ll have to scan the pics in if we ever find them.

    1. Yes, do! I’d love to see.

      She did end up carving it. She tried to do Oogie Boogie, but she messed it up. So she turned it around (it being a large pumpkin, she had room) and did a decent Jack Skellington instead.

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