Farmed Mattress

Since I'm obviously not exploring Dead Guy Canyon I figured I might as well join Mamaw and Grandma Debby with Evelyn at Bishops Pumpkin Farm. I went last year with Evelyn and the elementary school and she didn't really care about it that much. Probably why I didn't even consider that she would like it now.

We arrived at her nap time (true bravery) but she was in a really good mood. We walked over to the petting zoo and I thought for sure she would want nothing to do with touching the animals but she proved me wrong. She wanted to go inside the gate and feed them! Of course what she wanted and what she was willing to do was a different story.

She went in with the animals (wanting all of us with her) and begged Mamaw for something to feed the goats. Being the good grandmother that she is, she went and purchased the goat food for Evelyn. These goats are smart, they didn't let Mamaw walk 2 feet past the entrance before they were all over her trying to get some treats. Evelyn decided she was not willing to feed them, but we had a great time watching the goats try to tackle Mamaw.


After that we went ventured on to the large pumpkin patch where Evelyn drummed on the pumpkins, sat on them, tried to sleep on them, and tried to pick them up.

Never ones to settle for less we also took a train ride, did the sunflower maze (and selected sunflowers to take home), looked at all the different kinds of pumpkins, and had time to buy some pie.

In the sunflower maze we convinced Evelyn to let us take baby jaguars picture with her and then she decided we needed to take more pictures of baby jaguar. She'd run to different places setting baby jaguar down and saying "take his picture here!" before sitting somewhere next to him for her own picture.

Having baby jaguar 'smell the flowers'

At the end of the day she wanted to go back home with Mamaw and Grandma Debby, not me.

On my way home Cliff called to tell me Craigslist had a sleepnumber mattress for $500 and he wanted me to call on it. Great news for us, it was available if we could pick it up before 6pm (which we did) in a nice part of Granite Bay.

Cliff and I spent the night at home with our gear still all packed and we chose a second night of rice (with real butter instead of squeezy butter!) this time mixed with the eggs and zucchini we had planned on hiking into the hole. We finished the night setting up our California King sleep number bed and hoping for our first solid night of restful sleep in a long time!


All the pictures from Bishops Farm