The Great Pumpkin Patch

Every year Linus, who lives in Charlie Brown's neighborhood, waits for the Great Pumpkin to appear on Halloween night. Finnian and Adalia spent a night with Grandpa and Grandma and the most important agenda was to visit the Great Pumpkin Patch of our friends, Marcia and Marcel. A little rain and cold weather would not keep us from our appointed rounds.

Here we are just arriving and surveying the area. The rain tapered off just enough to get into the pumpkin patch, slide around in the mud, and find the best choices of the season!
Finnian made sure he stayed with this big one until Marcia could get to him and clip the vine.

After Adalia picked out her pumpkin, she found a couple of mini pumpkins she thought would be perfect for little cousin Ivy. Obviously Grandma's earmuffs were a little too big, but they kept her little round cheeks toasty warm.

The final result: A van loaded with various sizes, shapes and colors of pumpkins, gourds and mud covered boots and mittens. To finish our harvest fun we stopped at our hosts' house for scrumptous apple crisp, ice cream, coffee, tea, and a variety of Halloween candy bars. Eating a healthy lunch before having treats isn't a rule on a Grandpa and Grandma weekend is it?