Today was a beautiful 73 degree day that Jeremy and I both had off from work so I wanted to go spend it outside. We went to Horne Creek Farms in Pinnacle. We learned how to shuck corn, peel apples, and see how they lived along with 100 jr high students. So, we actually spent a lot of time at the chicken and turkey coop. Maddox also got to pet a cow that kept mooing at her and sort of scaring her. It's the first time I've seen her shy away a little bit from an animal.
She kept mocking the roosters saying "ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo" (sounding just like cocka doodle doo but they really don't say that at all, just ooohs). I tried to catch it on video posted at the end but I don't think she ever really did it. There's a tiny one, but not like she was doing before I turned the camera on. She thought they were pretty funny. You can also hear the turkeys on the video which I think sound pretty strange. I don't know that I've ever really heard a real one. And they're ugly things!
After that we were going to to drive over to Yadkin Islands park to have a picnic and hike up the Yadkinville River. When we got to the car my battery was completely dead. The farm is WAY out in the country, but at least there were people working there. At the river, especially on a weekday, there would probably be no one. This is a place you have to cross two creeks to get to. So obviously going further out without a good battery couldn't happen. We got a jump, drove back to King and bought a new battery. It was too far to drive back to the river. I was really bummed that we didn't get to hike on the river on such a beautiful fall day. So instead we went to Horizons Park and went to the dog park, played on the playground, and walked around in the woods there. Maddox loves the dog park. All the owners are paranoid that she'll get knocked over or be afraid when the dogs come up and lick her and bump her. She doesn't care, she just laughs. Apparently we wore Jessi out.
Last week we had our annual Naked Pumpkin Carving Day. We wait for a 70+ degree day and strip her down. She was reluctant to reach in there and grab all that gunk, but she did it eventually. 
It didn't really matter what she wanted, we threw it on her anyway. She got all gunky. She didn't like the mess and kept trying to clean up all the seeds and put them on the newspaper.
I still forgot to take a picture of the pumpkin. It said BOO and had a bat on it. But now it's all shriveled so you just won't get a picture this year.While I cut out the pattern Maddox did her favorite thing and chased Patches around.
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