Pumpkin Patch

The end of October in North America is dominant by the holiday of Halloween, which means that many of the houses are decorated with ghoulish and spooky items.  One of the mainstays is pumpkins that are then carved with faces.  Nancy led the charge and showed us the best place to go for fresh pumpkins.  The local farm, Mitchells, had a pumpkin patch with a large selection of the orange fruit and we let Sam loose to go and choose the one for our doorstep.  As you can see from the photos, Sam thought this was immense fun and made his selection from kissing the pumpkin.  We also discovered that a pumpkin is not a vegetable; it's a fruit! In fact, it's a berry.  Pumpkins belong to the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes cucumbers, melons, squash, and gourds.  We took our pumpkin home and Nancy's Uncle Peter came round the very next day to deliver a carved pumpkin as a gift for Sam.  It was an impressive effort and many thanks to Uncle Peter.