After much bugging and prodding, I managed to get my boyfriend to come along with me to Lindley's Farm (in Ancaster, Ontario, located on Fiddler's Green Road), and go on an adventure that Charlie Brown would envy. You must remember, that my squeeze is a city boy, and thinks all this country stuff is slightly daft.
For approximately $25 total, we got a wagon ride down to the 4-acre corn maise, and then down to the pumpkin patch, where we get to pick out our own perfect pumpkin. The wind was biting cold, but in the corn field, we were quite warm. But then, corn stalks block everything.
With Lindley's maise, the participants are given a map, and throughout the maise are check points with a letter. Find all the check points, fill them in on the back of the map, and hand in your map with your name and email for the chance to win a prize. Some people take the foolishness too seriously, but I'm in it for the fun.
We didn't spend too much time down in the pumpkin patch since it was so cold, but in the short time we were there, I still found the best pumpkin ever. It's the perfect size, shape, weight, colour, texture, everything that the perfect pumpkin ought to be. Actually, we both found really good pumpkins.
After the wagon ride back up to the top of the hill, we put our pumpkins away, and went back for one more piece of foolishness that I insisted be done: Gourd slingshots. Lindley's has a pond, and out in the middle of it is a dock with a bucket. Get the gourd in the bucket, and win a prize. Allie won herself a big bag of apples a few years ago. Apparently, it's one of her greatest accomplishments to date.
Anyways...
For $2, you get three gourds to fire at the bucket. For originally thinking it sounded like a somewhat lame idea, my city boy sure seemed to enjoy it as he paid for another three gourds. But then, he came within a foot of the bucket, and just had to try again. I think he had much more fun with it than he'd care to admit.
Of course, you can't leave Lindley's until you wander through their little store, where there's all sorts of fresh baked goods, foods of the season, such as squash, and little country oddities. They were also selling apple cider, hot and cold, for those who were craving an autumn treat.
The day may have been cold, but it was fun. Silly, foolish, childlike fun. As we all take life too seriously some days, a pumpkin patch adventure is just what we need to let loose a little bit.
Want to partake in a Great Pumpkin Patch Adventure that Charlie Brown would envy? Support a local farmer, and go to Lindley's:
http://www.lindleyfarm.com/
Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy Pumpkin Hunting!
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