Pumpkins!
We went to the farmers market this past weekend to pick up some “happy Kansas” cow and chicken - can you believe that the farmers market actually sells meat? You can get buffalo and emu too if you so desire, however, I do not. We also placed our order for a “happy” turkey for Thanksgiving, which I’m so excited about. Royal went and got a turkey hunting license, but I’m not betting my Thanksgiving turkey on Royal actually getting out there and shooting something. Plus, I’m not real excited to have to defeather and gut the thing - or even watch Royal do it - and who knows if he’ll get out hunting before Thanksgiving happens and I want turkey gosh darn it! Anyways…. while we were at the farmers market, I was planning on getting some pie pumpkins so I could puree and freeze the pumpkin guts for pumpkin pies and for hiding vegetables in our food - you can hide pumpkin in just about anything - it makes the best cakes incase you want to know. Well, anyway, the pie pumpkin person talked me out of getting pie pumpkins and getting this instead.
It’s a rumba squash, or I believe is also known as a cinderella pumpkin, and I was told it makes the most delicious pumpkin pies, has less water and barely any strings to deal with. So now I have this big squash to cut up, cook, and puree. The problem with this pumpkin at the farmers market was Jayden wanted to carry it and it was way too big for him, and as it was the last rumba squash on the table, I couldn’t have Jayden drop it and bust it open. So, we went to a different booth and Jayden picked out a bunch of small decorator pumpkins. Who knew these were going to be the best purchase of the whole day! Jayden carries and plays with his pumpkins all over the place. In the car on the way home, he had to have all 5 of them in his lap and he kept showing us which one was the biggest. Once we got home, he carried them around, lined them up, counted them, brought them to us one by one, and then we brought the dump truck upstairs. The pumpkins didn’t know they were going to be so loved!
“Hello, pumpkin?” - the pumpkin telephone
I’m CRAZY for pumpkins!
Oh! what great pumpkins. I love pumpkins. I love everything about them. The color, the time of season they can be picked in, carving them, cooking them, decorating with them,eating them and many other things. And now they Jayden has shown me they are great toys too. YAAAAAAAAAAAA pumpkins. Love, the old Marshmellow. (Oh! marshemellows go great with them too!)
I never knew that pumpkins could be so fun, they were just a fantastic buy, all that fun for two dollars.
well the cutest pumpkin of all of course is rachel’s pumpkin tummy…..a little orange and black paint on that belly and you’d have the biggest pumpkin of all….i’ll look forward to a picture….
i love all pumpkins too…..it’s one of the best things about fall……and pumpkin pie for breakfast can’t be beat….unless by a blackberry pie…:)
hugs
nana
I love Jayden playing with pumpkins! He looks thrilled. So easily pleased and entertained. If only they worked for bribes or something in the potty training department. :) Ha!
He is so ding dang cute!