Punkin' Patch

Today we all decided the sun was shining so it was time to go to the Pumpkin Farm. I buy lots of stuff at Schuh Farms through-out the spring and summer to fall. So Kylee and I, two of my daughters and their kids piled in the cars and off we went. Schuh farms is in the skagit Valley and has been around for a few generations. They put on a fine display. For the little kids they have a train pulled by a tractor and also for everyone a hay ride. The have chickens and baby pigs and lots of fun stuff. Free samples of all goodies too. Mattea got measured and Just Jake put on his farmer boy costume and was the hit of the party.

Fridays with children

Today is a no school day. Teachers work day they say. So I get the darlings. We went to see Papa and the there is a park by the nursing home. Then of course we have lunch. See the idea we took from Nancy Jo.....we pressed leaves and added sparkle. they are so pretty.

Stuff

Here I have been hanging around the house all day. Piddling around, doing this and that and almost forgot to post my daily picture. Shame on me.
So here are some cabbage and kale I am going to put in my garden 'bed' when the impatiens are done and they are. They got a touch of frost the other night and are turning black. So this weekend I will be doing that then I will show you a pic. Tomorrow is no school also so I will have Brett and Bradley and Kylee will be here too.
I posted a picture of cucumbers from the valley. They are dumping them and I have to find out why. I know they always plant extra to fill their quotas. But couldn't they go to schools, stores, food banks or something. I took some. Just call me a gleaner. Maybe they had poison on them accidentally---well I didn't get sick---so maybe not.
I tried to post this a while ago and then the power went out so Kylee and I went into Burlington to have some dinner and now it is 8:30 so I am finally going to get this going. I don't know why the power went out but it always does for no reason anyway.

What's happening to Stanwood?

Progress! I guess we cannot stop it even if we tried. I don't live in Stanwood proper, I live a bit out of town up in the woods (sorta). But look what is happening to this delightful little town. And this is right in town too. I showed you pictures of downtown Stanwood before with it's brick lined street--country yet all the up to date stores.

Cool sunrise

Cool in the meaning beautiful. It actually is quite warm for a morning. It is 58--yesterday at this time it was 40.
I too the first picture at 6:50 Am today when I took Kylee to her bus and then the next is at 7:15. Beautiful!! In other words COOL!!

Fall Pics

This is the view south from the house. A stormy afternoon. Fall weather for sure.
Our tree forest is of course mostly conifers, doug fir, cedar and like that, any alder or trash wood is always logged off, but all around the edges is whatever grows--alder, vine maples and the like. Those are the ones that turn the great color.

Cheri and Cameron

My daughter and her bunch, Cameron and Michael were here for the week-end. they live on the ranch in Ritzville, WA. Saturday we took Michael up to Bellingham for his drivers test. He passed said his proud grandmother (me). We ate lunch. We came back home and then went to the care center to see Dave. Of course we had to go out to dinner and then back home where I put them all to work. Cameron installed my new hot fence for the pastures and Mike cleaned up stuff around the outside of the house. The wind roared last night--huge gusts-no power outages--not yet anyway. Today Cameron and Mike raked up old leaves and the wheelbarrow that tipped over and blew stuff everywhere and then it was time for them to head home. It is about a 4-5 hour drive depending how fast you go. Friday the calves were trucked out so now they will push cows to different pastures and other ranch stuff.
It was fun having them here.
Oh the picture of Cheri and Cameron was taken last month when they went to Texas to pick up a car and got to drive back and they did all the tourists thing until they got to Utah and decided they wanted to GO HOME. The pic is at the Grand Canyon. Mike of course had to stay home and go to school. MB