Pumpkin Junction

A week ago today, our work group took our annual pumpkin patch trip. The year, the pumpkins we saw were at Casa de Fruta, a popular roadside attraction in Hollister, California (where I live). If you ever get to this area of California, I urge you to visit this place. It's a lot of fun.

The trip allowed us to see all areas of the place, but the pictures I am sharing are of the Pumpkin Junction. I took a lot (also took pictures form the other areas of the place), it was hard to choose what to include here.

Upon returning to work, some of us painted our pumpkins. Mine is in the last three photos.

Book Discussion: Accidentally Re-Reading

 

Yes, I've had this happen when I look at books in a store, mainly if they are used. But another thing that happens often is checking out a book form the library, unaware if I've already read it. This has happened many times, and I usually see right way on Goodreads if I have already read the book. But that was not the case this past week, when I entered a book I had borrowed and din't see until I was finished that I had read it several years earlier. Though it was one that must not have been memorable if I did not remember the name. I also fear that I might try (unknowingly) to re-read books I already have at home that I'm not really interested in reading again. I really need to go through and decide which ones to get rid of, that I don't feel interested in re-reading.

Has this happened to you? 

Thursday 13

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose.  

Some new cartoons for Halloween.

Pumpkin Lights

I finished my pumpkin bucket lights yesterday afternoon. The drill bit the man at Ace recommended turned out to make the whole a little big for the lights, so I hot glued each light into the bucket at the hole. Some of the solar lights did not get a lot of sun, since they were set up late in the afternoon. They should get more in the coming days though, since it's going to be hot for several days.

October Bookish Bingo

The new card is here.

My Books:

1. One of the Girls--Lucy Clarke (9 squares): DNF Last Month, Library Book, Physical Book, Book Club Read, Not in a Series, Free Space, Trick/Lie/Swindle, Character Disappears or Missing, Contemporary
2. Little Orange Pumpkin--Erin Guendselberger (5 squares): Audiobook, Amazing Audio Narrator, Candy or Treat, Orange or Black on Cover, Fall Theme or Objects
3. Fruit of the Dead--Rachel Lyon (2 squares): E-Book, Classic Story Retold
4. The Paris Library--Janet Skeslien Charles (1 square): Characters in a Book Club
5. Skulls!--Blair Thornburgh (1 square): Skull on Cover
6. Hollow Fields--Madeleine Rosca (1 square): Compilation
7. Crush--Tracy Wolff (3 squares): In a Series, Vampires, Love Triangle

Second Summer

Yeah, that seems to be the season we are now in my neck of the woods. Weather is expected to be in the 90s and 100s for the next week! And during our county fair. Though I have not been to the fair in years, I can't imagine it happening in 100-degree heat. And the Renaissance Faire is also happening (started last month). I've only been to that one once, but would not want to go in 100-degree heat. Staying home or going to the store is going to be hard enough. Also, we're having a pumpkin patch field trip next Wednesday.

I was unable to find this cartoon with
2nd summer highlighted

And I'm still behind on getting my pumpkin buckets ready to display on the front lawn. Need to figure out how to drill holes in the bottoms. Melting holes with hot glue and using exactos to make holes barely worked, so I'm hoping drilling them will work better. And I'm still deciding on a costume.

Yes, I feel this way, but unexpected circumstances have
 forced me to be a little late. I'm going to get the stuff
up by next week.

And I don't even want to get started on the Christmas stuff turning up in stores. I noticed a lot of that at Dollar General yesterday, along with discounted summer stuff. 

October Eve

 

At least that's what I wanted to do, but a cold has set me back a few days. And trying to find a way to make holes in the pumpkin buckets. Along the ones I got more than a month ago, I have since gotten two more at Goodwill, including a dark blue one (not pictured). I saw and wanted to get a white pumpkin there, but there was no tag so they wouldn't sell it. So I settled for getting another orange one. And I ordered the those pictured below from Amazon. They turned out to be smaller than the other ones, but I didn't mind that. I just wanted the different colors. Since I have 10 light stakes, I wanted to get that many buckets.

I experimented with cutting holes in the buckets with an exacto, but was less than satisfied. I got two done that way, but want to find another way to get the holes done. More on this later.

At first it seemed hard to find the round buckets. It seems those with wide rims are becoming more popular (below):

I am hoping to get it started tomorrow since it is the first.