A Gazillion Pumpkins

The pumpkins are delivered in these large
containers by a big semi

There were only two containers of these smaller ones

A Gazillion pumpkins!

Our monster slide...the real attraction of this lot!

Well, at least it seemed like I unloaded that many. Cecile started out helping me with some of the smaller ones but her fibromyalgia quickly told her that she probably should not continue. A gazillion is probably a slight overstatement. Doing a very rough count, it is probably more like 1600-1700. Plenty though, when you consider that you have to reach over the sides of the containers and lift them out. If I was to just pull the sides off the containers, it would cause too much bruising and breaking. Luckily that was the last heavy physical work that I will have to do...at least until it is time for Christmas trees.

Today is our second day of being opened and, amazingly enough, people are wanting to come out here and buy pumpkins and play on the slides in the rain. Go figure!

Ain't life grand?

Long Time

Yum! Nothing like fresh caught crab!

This was the big guy that I mention below. He
was probably the biggest crab I have ever caught.

Sorry that it has taken so long to post our goings on. We have been pretty busy these past couple of weeks.

We left Winchester Bay, Oregon after three fairly successful days of crabbing. Our final count was thirteen crab altogether. A lot of these seemed to be 'new shell' crab so they didn't have a great deal of meat. But we did get a couple of meals out of our efforts and, of course, nothing beats fresh caught crab. The last crab I caught was the biggest, measuring out at almost 7 3/4". He was also a pretty good fighter!

From there we spent three days heading south to our lot at Park Sierra. We had to spend a little time here to get rid of our summer 'stuff' and pick up our fall and winter stuff. Luckily we got rid of more than we loaded back on.

After spending five days there, we again hit the road heading for the San Francisco bay area. We usually don't go up this early but the owners of the pumpkin & Christmas tree business that we work for asked us to help them out setting up the lots this year. It turned out to be a lot harder work that Gary was anticipating but he survived. Cecile didn't have to do much during this time so she decided to take BART over to Walnut Creek to visit Dana, David and the kids. She had a great time but everybody decided it was much too short a visit.

Ain't life grand?