Pumpkins and such

On Friday our church moms group took a trip to the Painted Pony Farm (site of J's field trip earlier in the week, so he got to go twice). The big kids enjoyed a trip through the pumpkin patch and picking their own pumpkins. Strange to see a pumpkin patch surrounded on all sides by basically a field of dirt... but that's just the way farms out here are. Dry, dusty, arid. Viewing the sweet farm animals in their dirt-floor pens feels pretty strange too.

Saturday we rounded out our fruit-n-veg weekend by making applesauce with our friends, the Grahams, which was good fun and an educational experience.

Tonight and for the next few days we're in for a rare treat: some rain! We haven't seen a drop since we were back in the northeast in July (when we saw plenty). We always love it when the rain rolls in around here. I'll be spending some of the rainy days trying to finalize some tech elements on my computer which I had to rebuild - again! - on Friday after some random driver issues caused the whole thing to crash on Thursday (5 weeks after my last virus-induced crash. Now if that isn't bad computer karma, I don't know what is)...