Hay bale slide

Awesome idea. Put a slide on hay bales.

Hay bale slide

Black Harvest Farms October 27, 2011 Grandma & Grandpa took us to Black Island Farms in Syracuse last Thursday…it was SO much FUN! We went right after school, so the sun was still shining…but BOY, was it COLD! There was a huge field area with great big slides supported by hay bales, some awesome, creatively shaped swings made out of old tires, a corn-launching game and of course, the maze. It was a-MAZE-ing! (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.) I’ll bet you can guess where we headed first. You got…

Slide

Best Loved Hubby and I traveled again to Kentucky for the opening weekend of the Giant Corn Maze at Kelly Farms. and their pumpkin patch. I also did some more sign painting. The maze gets better every year and now that they have been at it for five years there was a lot more to enjoy. The picture above is part of the new Kids Zone. First thing on the agenda was the back of this hay slide. I painted a scarecrow sliding down a hay stack. Kids loved it and (as hoped) lots of pictures were taken…

Inspired by a Facebook advertisement that I found - and then a subsequent word-of-mouth recommendation of the same place to Michele, we decided to try a whole new venue for our annual harvest-time adventures. We were super impressed with the locale - the only thing we'd probably change is the weather for the day - but even that was just fine as the rain held off until we got in the cars to leave. Today was a no-school day for all 5 of our kiddos - (thank you state of Oregon education budget…

Purple Valley Maple Syrup Fesitval 2012 www.explorethebruce.com/oldtyme_maple_syrup_festival_onta...

When Fred Dickinson, general manager of the Burke Nursery and Garden Center, started the pumpkin festival with his wife Cassandra 17 years ago, he said he had no idea it would grow to be such a large event. In fact, the nursery didn’t start to sell carving pumpkins until the last two weeks of October.