Snack Cornacopia

Another beautiful week on the lakeshore, as we slowly transition from one season to the other. Wednesday night we started off what would become a pretty serious trend in snacking by heading down to the Farmer's market for some rootbeer and kettle corn. The nights are darkening early, but we needed to get brewing supplies and the allure of rootbeer on the street and live music was too much for the three of us to overcome. Friday night we put those brewing supplies to good use and invited several friends over to help. The kids ran around like crazy and polished off popcorn, pop and multiple bags of chocolate candies as they played variations of tag until well after the sun went down. By the time it was over Sophia had parlayed the brew into a sleep over for one of her friends, so after clean up it was time to wrangle out the cots and bags and set up the movies. The kids didn't stay awake long. Saturday morning was brisk with fall clearly in the air, but a solid pancake eating competition had everyone ready to hit the day. We headed over to another music/fall fest and listened to some great tunes while playing in the bouncy house and various game tosses. The kids played in the corn maze and fire trucks and spent a good deal of time petting the various livestock on display. Although I suspect that the baby rabbits stole the show even above the hamburgers and hot apple sauce topping on ice-cream. The kids were having belly fulls of laughs hiding on my while in the corn maze. They seemed to lose their sense of humor when I hid on them however. The looks on their faces were honest fear. Sophia even convinced me that she needed a fluorescent pink hair extension in her hair. Must have been the open air music or the smell of over priced pumpkin chi in the air, but I caved. Not a major social scheduling shock, but Sophia had a birthday party to attend later in the day so Merrick and I were able to take care of some of the domestic chores. Saturday evening the kids and I were spent and everyone was lights out by about 8:30. We meet Sunday morning with a smile and headed out to the woods to hunt for partridge and although we didn't see any, it was sure beautiful in the woods, with the trees at about 30-40% of peak color. No birds but we did manage to sneak in some snacks. We cleaned up when we got home and then dragged the rockets we built Thursday night out to the launch field. The launch had went so well a couple of weeks ago we upped our engines considerably. We should not have done this. Even after we planned for the wind we out shot our large field considerably. Merrick's rocket was the first (and only) launch of the day. It was last seen drifting well over the freeway and just to the left of an incoming cessna. There are no pictures of this event and we will never speak of it again. Sophia and I winterized the camper and made some minor repairs to the truck before everyone settled in front of the Packer's game with solid quantities of snacks. Hard to have a better fall weekend than that.