Every year around Labour Day weekend, our favourite roadside stand stops selling their delicious corn and starts preparing for pumpkin season! I’ve bought my pumpkins from them every year, sometimes making a special Thanksgiving weekend trip just to pick them up.
Last weekend my mom and I were out running errands together and decided to pop in just to take a look at the pumpkins. We’re making Pumpkin Flower Arrangements for Thanksgiving together later this week and it gave us a chance to look at sizes.
As soon as we saw all the rows upon rows of big plump pumpkins, I knew there was no way I was leaving without a few. The ones with really twisty stems are my favourites.
They have pumpkins in every shape, size and colour you can imagine, along with seasonal squash. I picked some up to make Butternut Squash and Carrot Soup, Savoury Stuffed Acorn Squash, and Spaghetti Squash with Homemade Tomato Sauce in the coming weeks.
It felt so much like fall that day, with a plaid shirt and big puffy vest on, carrying a big mug of tea and towing a wagon full of pumpkins and squash.
We decided to grab a little one for my sister’s new apartment in the city…but couldn’t decide on which colour so she got one white and one orange. They were just too cute to pass up…so she got one of each. If we could have found a way to mail one to my brother we probably would have!
They also had big bales of straw for decorating, and little table top bales (too cute!). I ended up buying a big one to decorate with now and then use in the chickens’ nesting boxes through the winter. Win-win!
A little red wagon full of fall goodness. How cute is that green pumpkin? I would love to turn it into Cinderella’s carriage!
It was so fun to get out with my mom and talk about fall decorating. She’s the one that gave me my great love of holidays and festivities, and we can’t help but get excited brainstorming ideas when we’re together.
As soon as I got home I was moving my planters and pumpkins around. This is the third time I’ve changed up the front porch in the last week, ha!
One of those pumpkins will likely be making it’s way into the chicken coop soon as a Thanksgiving treat for the girls (and Henry the Rooster).
Every time I pull up to the house and see this front porch, I get so giddy. Still can’t believe that I have a front porch to decorate during the different seasons. I’m already brainstorming what to do for the next season!
Looks beautiful 🙂