Fall is here
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008And I think summer happened somewhere in between…. I should probably be doing my homework now but I happened to have my computer on and I happened to have some photos from my recent pumpkin adventures. In the last few weeks we’ve been feeling a bit fidgety that Seattle doesn’t have all the New England Fall activities like pick your own apples. This fact is also despite being the apple capitol of the US! To be honest though, that is probably the reason, not as many small family farmers, and more industrial sized apple farms. Anyway we found this great “King County produce finder”! It helped us to find a pick your own apple orchard! We had great fun, they had lots of other “pick your own” produce including green beans, tomatoes, chard, and potatoes! They made you work for your vegetables, the potatoes really had a pitch fork next to a field and you dug them up! This particular farm also had fresh cider donuts, very yummy! Still no unpasteurized apple cider though… I wish folks would realize that “cider” is really just apple juice in comparison to the flavor in unpasteurized cider….
We also recently went to a pumpkin farm! We picked up LOTS of pumpkins, one of which has already turned into a pie! 
Pumpkin Man! Carrying our pumpkins, I’ve actually got one more in my hand as I take the picture.
Lauren’s found her pumpkin!
Hurray for pumpkins! It was actually kind of cheating. The “pick your own-ness” of the farm was an over statement. All the pumpkins that were ripe had already been cut from the vine, All you needed to do was pick it up out of the mud. It really should be choose your own pumpkin, but isn’t that what you do when they are in a big pile? Anyway, syntax aside, it was great fun!!
There has been some boat progress, the hull is nearing completion. School is otherwise good, and I really should get back to doing my homework!!!