Last weekend, on Saturday, 13 October, we were in need of pumpkins, as most families are this time of year. We could have picked them up at the grocery just down the road, but we thought it would be more fun to visit one of the local pumpkin farms we've seen on our rides. Since we don't actually own a pickup, we used the next best thing - our old Burley trailer.
Quinn and I pulled the trailer behind the big blue Burley. It was a very windy day, but the trip to Tannenbaum Farm was just a few short miles. It was fun.
Tannenbaum Farm is a large Christmas tree farm, as the name suggests, and the pumpkin patch appears to be a recent addition. In the image below, you can see the lines of Christmas trees.
The farm didn't have any designated bicycle parking, but the white fence at the front of the parking area seemed appropriate. Some of us needed to get out of our cycling gear and into "normal" clothes so people wouldn't think we were weird.
We told Abbey there was very little chance we'd run into anyone we knew, but we were wrong. There was another family picking out pumpkins, and in that family was a boy who is in Abbey's third grade class. Rather than choose our pumpkins from the trailers out front, we joined the other family for a hayrack ride out to the pumpkin patch. Abbey even spoke to the boy, just a little.
After much deliberation we chose a couple of big pumpkins and loaded them into the hay trailer for the ride back to the parking area.
Before we got away, we also selected a couple of little pumpkins and some funky gourds. After shelling out about $7 for all this fruit, we stuffed it into our pumpkin trailer and padded it with a blanket for the ride home.
Maybe this year we'll get our Christmas tree from Tannenbaum Farm. They said they hadn't had anyone pick up a Christmas tree using a bicycle. Hmmm.
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