Rain Dance
**Updated with link to the photos!!
We got up early today, so I could introduce Jake to the wonderful world of pumpkin picking. He’d never been before and I found out where there was a farm fairly close by. We went on a hay ride while we were there, yet another thing he’d never done. We ate funnel cake and visited the quaint country store they had. We picked pumpkins. It was a lovely day, and despite his skepticism early on I think we both had a great time. After that we met up with Steve for lunch before stopping to get pumpkin carving tools (Jake has never carved pumpkins either!!). During that stop I found the two Halloween My Little Ponies for this year, which was quite exciting I must say… especially considering one is a ladybug! I got two new books today, one of them the new novel by Alice Sebold. So far it’s just as riveting as her others.
Right now Jake is napping, I’m reading and contemplating uploading the pictures I took today to the website. Although I’m feeling slightly too lazy to do that.
It’s been a good day.
A conversation, upon seeing a sign that encouraged us to ‘pray for rain’ :
Jake: Pray for rain? I think we should have a rain dance.
Me: A rain dance?
Jake: Yes, with the drums and the rainsticks and whatnot.
Me: You’re ridiculous.
Jake: And a loincloth. If all else fails, it’d rain just to get us out of the loincloths.
Me: Do you have a loincloth?
Jake: No, I’d have to fashion one.
Me: Fashion one?? *laughter*
Jake: I’ll have to wear boxers underneath though. I can’t free-ball it when I wear a loincloth.
mom said,
October 21, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
lol that is just toooooo funny. the scary part is I can picture Jake “fashioning” a loin cloth. It sounds like you had a good adventure today.
When we come down next month, I’ll be bringing a photo album down of dad’s exaultedc ruler year that aunt chris made for him at the end of the year. He found it while he was cleaning out the cellar today. What a blast from the past!!!!!!!!!
Monica said,
October 21, 2007 @ 6:26 pm
I am just absolutely amazed that Jake has never carved a pumpkin! You better teach him these things!!!…I mean shoot…that’s like never seeing Santa Claus or something at Christmas time. Sounds like you had a great weekend!!! miss you tons ***HUGS***
Patricia said,
October 22, 2007 @ 4:10 am
Jake has never done these quintessential Halloween things because the poor baby has an English mother! And he “fashions” a loincloth because as well as being English, his mother was also an English teacher…
Kate said,
October 22, 2007 @ 7:48 am
re: patricia- Everyone thinks it’s *so* strange he’s never done these things. I did too, until I thought about your heritage and how Halloween probably wasn’t a big deal in your house
He had fun though, learning about pumpkin picking.
And ‘fashioning’ a loincloth is totally a not weird thing for him to say.
Heather said,
October 22, 2007 @ 9:23 am
Wow! Welcome to Halloween Jake! After reading Patricia’s comment I can understand. So awesome that YOU got to introduce these things to him. Did you roast the pumpkin seeds for eating?
Loin cloth, hilarious!
Erin said,
October 23, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Sounds like a lot of fun!!