A catch and a harvest

We had a big day today here at Glory Farm.  The pumpkin harvest, official count and vine clipping was set for the morning.  Luckily for me, The Bride was here to join in the adventure.  I was grateful for the help, but even more grateful to share the event with someone who has almost been as caught up in this whole ‘pumpkin experience’ as myself.  I see great pumpkin patches in The Bride’s future.  We clipped the vines, leaving as much vine as possible, set the pumpkins upright, marveling at their colors, shapes and sizes.  Then we counted them…twice and the grand total for our bumper crop was 67!  65 beautiful, colorful, unique, fun pumpkins and 2 funny looking ones.

We set the favored ones aside, earmarked a few for the newlyweds, shared some with the neighbor, saved some for Number 4 Son, gave one to the Preacher’s Wife, put a pile in the Barn Sale and… we’ve got a bunch of pumpkins left.  We’ve got 3 porches… I’ve got the pumpkins to decorate them all!

My Loving Spouse had a really big day!  A really lonnnnnnnnng day, starting at 2:30 am, which to me is not a.m. as in morning it is a.m. as in the middle of the night!  Off to fish on the bank of the Columbia river, where he’d been told you could catch salmon.  Catch salmon he did and we’ve been told these are a bit ‘small’, but hey, this was his first trip.   3 big salmon and 1 even larger, made a dinner for us a dinner for Our Friend the Farmer and a freezer with more salmon.  I was delighted.  I was also delighted he decided to clean them outside, as that was a bit messy.  He was watched, encouraged and assisted by every cat on the property, who were shortly gorging themselves on fish tails, heads and stray bits.

Life is good!