I fancied up my page today with a cool Halloween theme. Cows and pumpkins – just like home! I always get excited about autumn. The things I love about October most, other than candy and beer fests, are pumpkins and harvest time. I love the abundance of squashes, the crunching of leaves, the hayrides…
Oh wait, I live in Arizona.
It’s like spring here, not fall. My tomato plant that Brigid started got fried in the summer heat, but Paul stuck a new one in the ground and for the first time, we have tomatoes growing! We tried pumpkins last year, but some kind of weird white mold overtook them and snuffed them out. We may at least have a January harvest of tomatoes if all goes well.
There are some farms out of town that put on pumpkin and fall festivals, but they are dreadfully crowded and overpriced. A couple years ago we attended one where the pumpkins were selling for $12 apiece for small ones! And that’s after they charged over $10/person to get in the gate. No thanks.
I wanted to go to Minnesota this weekend, but Paul had a good time without me. He’s on the plane home right now and should be here in an hour. That means I need to start cleaning up so I can make it look like I did something this weekend other than sit the kids in front of the TV and watch movies and eat popcorn all day. And candy corn.
And a big thanks goes out to Ann & Keith who came all the way up here from the outskirts of Mesa to keep me company yesterday. We even went to the mall, which was a good way to wear the kids out and it kept me from going out of my mind. Mostly.
Oh wait, I live in Arizona.
It’s like spring here, not fall. My tomato plant that Brigid started got fried in the summer heat, but Paul stuck a new one in the ground and for the first time, we have tomatoes growing! We tried pumpkins last year, but some kind of weird white mold overtook them and snuffed them out. We may at least have a January harvest of tomatoes if all goes well.
There are some farms out of town that put on pumpkin and fall festivals, but they are dreadfully crowded and overpriced. A couple years ago we attended one where the pumpkins were selling for $12 apiece for small ones! And that’s after they charged over $10/person to get in the gate. No thanks.
I wanted to go to Minnesota this weekend, but Paul had a good time without me. He’s on the plane home right now and should be here in an hour. That means I need to start cleaning up so I can make it look like I did something this weekend other than sit the kids in front of the TV and watch movies and eat popcorn all day. And candy corn.
And a big thanks goes out to Ann & Keith who came all the way up here from the outskirts of Mesa to keep me company yesterday. We even went to the mall, which was a good way to wear the kids out and it kept me from going out of my mind. Mostly.
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