Sunday, October 23, 2011

Free For Fall (Part 1)

What an October it has been! I cannot remember a period of time, up until now, where it seems that something is going on every weekend. It is certainly always a fun time of year with Halloween festivals aplenty, followed by Thanksgiving and Christmas. We started it off THREE weekends ago with two trips to two different farms in two days. We'll start tonight with the first trip to a place called Red Bluff Farms in Folsom, a small rural town outside of nearby Covington.

They regularly host school field trips and open the farm during this time of year with some sort of Pumpkin Patch theme. The pumpkins were frankly a bit scarce but the fun was not.

Among other things, we got to:
See a live sheep sheering
See a cow give milk
Feed a baby calf
Ride in a horse buggy
Take a tour of the farm
See bees making honey
Pick the few pumpkins that remained
Pet baby goats and pigs
Ride antique tractors

We also ran into several people that we knew, which made for a fun day. Here are some photos of the event.

































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4 comments:

bettyb said...

Hi Jacob and Patrick,
Your trip to the pumpkin patch looks like SO much fun. I know you are having a good time getting ready for halloween with all these fun things you are doing. Tell Daddy to keep the blog posts coming so we can see everything that you are both getting to do.
love and more love,
Bebe
p.s. it is almost November,and Jacob,you know what that means!!!!!

Charles Gramlich said...

They are growing so much! Amazing.

kate, nick, myrt and baker said...

love jacob milking the cow, the picture with the pumpkins spiraling everywhere and all of the ones of the three of you - just precious!

Theresa Miller said...

Wonderful pictures!