Yokels

Saturday saw a trip to Silverbrook farms in Acushnet.  We have been there now every fall since Phoebe was a baby and it really makes me feel how quickly they are growing.   This year they were big enough to bother Chico’s arthritis and get their faces painted.  The farm expands its offerings every year and they now have three rides, a horse-drawn hayride, a tractor-drawn hayride and a tractor-drawn barrel ride, all running on separate tracks.  I would love to be at the meetings where they brainstorm the changes.  Actually I would like to go to any meeting where some kind of decision is made.  At the end we painted the pumpkins while a man in a chicken suit plodded around.  We packed the creatively adorned pumpkins carefully in the car and brought them home so that the rain could immediately wipe them clean.  Pizza at Nicks and a trip to the Kool Moose rounded out a solid day.