we picked up some mini pumpkins for decorating the house.
we also got some of these gourds for fall decor. LOVE.
My dad came down from Gabriola Island for the weekend and the weather was incredible, super warm for fall and really sunny and lovely. I had really been wanting to go to the pumpkin patch and get pumpkins for Halloween carving. We took the hayride out to the patch where we scoured over every pumpkin for the perfect three to represent our family. This was totally one of those things that I dreamed about doing with my kid(s) and it was even better than I expected it to be. I think we will definitely make it a fall tradition for years to come.
Just one of the three huge bushels of apples we picked.
This post is a little late but a few weeks ago we went apple picking. Our original plan was to go out to a farm and pick apples and pay for whatever we picked, then I started noticing apples everywhere I looked. Every other neighbour had a tree full of apples! I put the word out that we were looking to come and pick apples and luckily our friends parents had a tree ripe for the picking. We packed up our baskets and a ladder and honestly within twenty minutes of picking apples we had three baskets overflowing with ripe organic apples, yet the tree looked like it hadn't even been touched. These were seriously the best apples I have ever tasted in my life. AH-mazing! We made applesauce, apple pie, apple muffins and cut and froze a ton of apples for the winter. I wish I knew how to can otherwise I would have canned a ton of readymade apple pie filling, maybe next year. A huge thank you to Elliot's parents for letting us pick their apples. How amazing that you can grow organic apples on a tree in your yard for many to enjoy for years. We will definitely be planting an apple tree if we ever when we buy a house of our own. When I think of fall I always think of apples, you?
