Halloween is on it's way and pumpkins are ripe for picking!

Isn't that the truth, we are heading at break neck speed into the holiday season with Halloween fast approaching, we decided that this weekend was as good as any to head off the pumpkin patch to pick out our pumpkins.  So we bundled up into the car and decided to head out to Sauvie's Island with the promise that the weather would be dry... well it wasn't!  Quel shocker!!  So we figured what the heck.. we'd do what all other Portlanders do and just continue with our plans because as they say up here "if you postponed due to the weather ie rain, you'd never do anything"  of course I did paraphrase that somewhat to death but you get my drift....Honestly it wasn't that bad, I was just mad because I'd actually bothered to dry my hair that day and with in seconds it was a frizzy mess that the birds would be happy to nest in... ho hum! 
 Still that didn't stop us from wandering through the corn maze with Owen as our leader who said he was just using his instincts to get us through the maze,  actually what he managed to do was get us hopelessly lost, which was half the fun... all I can say is thank god for rain boots because it was really REALLY muddy  and slippy.  Once we finally found our way out it was onto the pumpkin field to pick out our

 pumpkins... our rule has always been that if you can lift it you can have that pumpkin.. of course those two are able to lift a lot more than they used tooo... check out the pumpkins that

 got picked.

As you can 

see we got quite a substantial haul!  

After relaxing with a yummy lunch of freshly roasted corn.. we hit the produce stand and finished our shopping...

All in all a good fall day out!  

Oh yes for those of you keeping tabs.. the hand is healing but looks like leathery snake skin that is currently peeling and ITCHY, looks worse than it is though!