Fun Filled Fall Foray
Oct. 14th, 2007 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateGot the day started right when the CoB cooked us breakfast - scrambled egg with cheese, mushrooms, and red bell pepper and an english muffin with olivio, some orange juice, and a tea to go.
Before we got to our original destination below, we ended up stopping over our friend S's house to drop off a couple of books she had bought the other night while we did dinner and a movie (there was enough time between the one and the other that we drove together in one vehicle to the bookstore)... discovered she was ill with a chest cold that she had contracted while visiting family out of state. So CoB and I decided to get her a care package at the nearest (15 minutes away, I kid you not, she lives out in the middle of nowhere) pharmacy for some Mucinex, a get well card, vitamin C drops, tissues, and these really soft squishy socks. She loved it.
We decided to head out to this farm in Lebenon, CT where they have a super cool corn maze and a pumpkin patch hayride drawn by a tractor. They also had this neat Castle Bounce, which made me think of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kadath because she had mentioned how she had wanted one for her reception... *grin*
I fed some chickens and white domestic ducks with some dried corn kernels... that was a lot of fun, actually. Made me yearn for my own flock.
Where I got the kernels is a story unto itself. They had set up a huge pile of dried ears of corn and a couple of hand cranked machines to remove the kernels from the cob. All the kids there were really enjoying cranking those handles and sending the cobs through the machine. How's that for free labor? Get a whole season's worth of chicken feed from the little sprats.
CoB wandered about taking pictures of all the old, rusting, paint peeling farm equipment as well as all the gourds, pumpkins and various things... including this HUGE wasp's nest that he had parked the vehicle almost directly under.
On the way back we drove by this little lake that you can see from 384 and I spotted a flock of Loons on a stopover on their way to the coast. CoB did NOT believe me when I said I saw the Loons handing out on the little lake. Hence, I had to find this awesome site to prove my point. Don't disbelieve someone who lived in New Hampshire for so long that she saw Loons.
Now I'm off to go for a walk with friend D to enjoy the last of the sun.
Before we got to our original destination below, we ended up stopping over our friend S's house to drop off a couple of books she had bought the other night while we did dinner and a movie (there was enough time between the one and the other that we drove together in one vehicle to the bookstore)... discovered she was ill with a chest cold that she had contracted while visiting family out of state. So CoB and I decided to get her a care package at the nearest (15 minutes away, I kid you not, she lives out in the middle of nowhere) pharmacy for some Mucinex, a get well card, vitamin C drops, tissues, and these really soft squishy socks. She loved it.
We decided to head out to this farm in Lebenon, CT where they have a super cool corn maze and a pumpkin patch hayride drawn by a tractor. They also had this neat Castle Bounce, which made me think of
kadath because she had mentioned how she had wanted one for her reception... *grin*I fed some chickens and white domestic ducks with some dried corn kernels... that was a lot of fun, actually. Made me yearn for my own flock.
Where I got the kernels is a story unto itself. They had set up a huge pile of dried ears of corn and a couple of hand cranked machines to remove the kernels from the cob. All the kids there were really enjoying cranking those handles and sending the cobs through the machine. How's that for free labor? Get a whole season's worth of chicken feed from the little sprats.
CoB wandered about taking pictures of all the old, rusting, paint peeling farm equipment as well as all the gourds, pumpkins and various things... including this HUGE wasp's nest that he had parked the vehicle almost directly under.
On the way back we drove by this little lake that you can see from 384 and I spotted a flock of Loons on a stopover on their way to the coast. CoB did NOT believe me when I said I saw the Loons handing out on the little lake. Hence, I had to find this awesome site to prove my point. Don't disbelieve someone who lived in New Hampshire for so long that she saw Loons.
Now I'm off to go for a walk with friend D to enjoy the last of the sun.
