What a Wonderful Day!

Yesterday was a wonderful day!

A friend of mine texted me in the morning to see how I was feeling because I've been really really sick with a virus that acted like pneumonia. I was sick my whole birthday weekend. My friend told me that she and her son were going to a pumpkin farm and wanted to know if the kids and I wanted to go. I actually felt much better yesterday, and it sounded like fun, so I said that we would go with them.

The weather was amazing! Sunny, about 70°, light breeze, it was a good day for walking around a farm. The prices at this place were really affordable, too. For $9, you got admission to the corn maze, a horse-drawn wagon ride to the pumpkin patch to choose your own pumpkin, and a return ride. My kids loved it! There were also animals you could feed and pet. From rabbits to horses to goats, sheep, pigs, cows, and chickens, this was a real farm, not just a petting zoo.

My kids love animals, and could have spent all day just petting and feeding the animals. There were 2 baby goats meandering around, and they were about the cutest things you'd ever seen. After you choose your pumpkins and return to the main area, there are wagons you can load your pumpkins in to get them to your car. One family had some pumpkins in a wagon, and one of the baby goats was climbing all over the pumpkin-filled wagon like he was scaling a mountain. He would scrabble on top of the pumpkin, lose his balance, tumble down pumpkin mountain, then start over again. It was too cute not to watch, especially since we were waiting for the wagon to come 'round.

My daughter fell in love with a horse named Marty. She said he reminded her of a horse we met some years back named Blackjack. Blackjack is a very large, but very gentle sheriff's horse. Marty was also very large, but very gentle. I'll have to find a photo of Blackjack to see if they really do look similar, or if we think they look similar because they are both large, black horses.

There was a chicken walking around the farm like a foreman on a job site. We didn't pet her, because she was a chicken, and even we know better than to try to pet chickens. She was fun to watch, strutting from place to place, supervising the action like a nosy busybody.

My kids were transfixed with the corn silo. It's a silo made of sturdy chicken wire, so you can see all the corn cobs sitting in the silo. Don't forget, we are city folk, so things like this hold a certain fascination for us.

Our time had ended at the farm, and we made our trek back to the city. I took my daughter to dance at 5, and when I got back, my husband told me that he was taking my son for a haircut. I'm pretty sure I told you that my son didn't get his haircut last week. Well, he finally got it cut yesterday. He looks great! You can see his handsome face; it's not hidden beneath all the hair. The most important and fantastic part is that he loves his hair short! Thank goodness he does. It would have been misery around here if he didn't like it.

In the annals of Wonderful Days, yesterday was one of the red-letter days from start to finish.