17 October 2010

pumpkin festival

Yesterday morning we went to the nearby pumpkin festival. It's primarily an autumn street/craft fair with some booths selling Halloween things, but they also have Christmas stuff along with other arts and crafts. There is a largest pumpkin contest. The winner this year was over 1500lb (680kg), but they are not really pumpkins, those big ones are a type of gourd. There were also other Halloween things, like a haunted house and kids in costumes.


A small parking area had a mechanical bull ride set up under a canopy. They didn't really turn it up very aggressively, so our daughter was kind of bored with it.

There is a local yarn shop there, so I took the opportunity to get some yarn for another shawl. This time for an in law. The Nov/Dec project for the knitting group at work is a shawl. I hope it doesn't take as long as the previous one, but it will be an open type and nicer yarn. The yarn for my wife's was the yarn she wanted, but the new yarn is merino, the good stuff.

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