Family of Three Solve Amazing Maize Maze in Not So ‘Near Record Time

On Saturday we piled into the car for the annual pumpkin picking and kettle corn eatin’ extravaganza held at Lone Pine Farms. I love this place. Not just because we find the best pumpkins, no, not just because we get fresh warm kettlecorn, nope, but because they have the mother of all corn mazes! And its a haunted one at that. Ok, during the day its not so much haunted as it is just decorated, but at night, they bring it to life. In a couple years when Dylan can hang, he and I can go through and have the crap scared out of us. Meanwhile, its still fun to go through. This year took us 49 min. We beat our last year best time of 1:16 min. Not bad considering how complex this thing is. After the maze, we head toward the sign that reads, “Horse drawn hay ride to the pumpkin patch”, which should have read, “Welcome to the BACK of the longest, slowest moving line in history”. We stick it out because Dylan wants the horses, even though the tractor drawn hay ride line is moving at twice the speed. We get on and go pick 80 lbs worth of pumpkins. It was a good time.

This year I’m going to be the grim reaper. Same as last year, and every year before that. Although this year I have added some super creepy lookin’ cheese cloth to really send home the “just dug out of the ground” look. So I stain my cheese cloth with coffee until it looks nice and old. Thing is, even though I dried it outdoors, it really smells like coffee and I don’t want the rest of my clothes to smell like that so I hang it (and the mask) innocently from our curtain rod in the bedroom. So when you turn on the light, this 6 foot floating creepy faced vision of death is the first thing that greets you. That lasted for about 3 1/2 seconds before Kim made me take it all out to my office and hang it there. Big Baby. Anyway. The following pics illustrate our day. Enjoy.