The kids and I went to the Methodist church's pumpkin patch to help them set up. With the hurricane and crop difficulties this year, they did not get the first shipment as planned, so they got their first pumpkins today, two weeks later than they normally do. This morning, one of the members of their church bought out the entire stock of pumpkins at a local Farmer's Market and donated them to the church so they would have some on hand for their fall festival this morning, since the truck was scheduled to come this afternoon.
Funniest. Pumpkin. Ever. and it's ALL MINE@!!!
There were almost no pumpkins out when we got there. The kids and I helped lay out pallets, and they made some friends. They came back and forth between playing with the kids on the MDO playground and helping unload pumpkins from the truck.
Part of the pumpkin passing people chain - I loved his shirt.
There's Mel! Hi, Mel!
One of Korben's friends, a boy named Tyler, helping to unload pumpkins. People of all ages and sizes come out to help unload the pumpkins every year.
Korben and Sophie played with this young lady, Julia, and her keyboard for quite a while. They sang the songs for all the buttons she would push to make music. It was really neat.
And of course, there were dozens of people there to take pictures of their kids with the pumpkins.
Mel's husband, Mark, helping to unload the truck. I took this for her so she could admire his muscles.
Artsy Fartsy - white pumpkin.
We unloaded somewhere between 3,000-4,000 pumpkins today.
For comparison: 2007's shot
And 2005's shot
I think we missed 2006 because my mom was in town? I don't remember. I have so many pictures to sort through... it took me 20 minutes to find that 2005 shot.
More Ripley cuteness...
