We took advantage of the lovely Fall weather today to get out and make the annual Schnell family trip to the pumpkin patch out in North Bend. (This was visit #2 to this particular pumpkin patch, so I am now officially calling this an annual family tradition.) This time, we invited several of our friends (our ‘Seattle family’), which made for an even better time. We spent awhile wandering among the pumpkins, all in search of that one perfectly round, perfectly colored pumpkin – I told myself as we were heading to the patch that we really didn’t need more than that one perfect pumpkin. But then again, what is a ‘perfect’ pumpkin? Is it small or big? Orange or white or green? Tall and skinny or short and squat? We couldn’t decide, and far be it from us to discriminate, so we walked away with a wagon full of ‘perfect’ pumpkins. A nice little multi-ethnic pumpkin family. It was such a beautiful day out there, with the sun shining and Mount Si rising up in it’s rocky glory right beside us. Good times.
Post-pumpkin patch, we found ourselves hungry and ready to cozy up indoors, so we all headed to Brian and Nicole’s for a dumpling making party. I had never made dumplings before, but I have never enjoyed food prep so much – it was fun to sit around the table with friends, folding yummy fillings of pork and vegetables into delicate little pot-sticker wrappers, then passing them to the men at duty by the stove. And mmm mmm, they were delicious. The perfect way to ‘wrap up’ a perfect fall day (pun intended).
