pups in the patch

It was so beautiful out today, way too gorgeous not to take advantage of it. Sunny, breezy, highs in the sixties, first day of October...sounds like a Pumpkin Patch day to me! Dennis and Lemonade and I met Gran and Pop and Hobbs, and we spent a terrific afternoon picnicking and playing outside. Lemonade and Hobbs got lots of attention from the people there, and the dogs seemed to really like going on the hayride to the patch to frolic among the pumpkin vines. We humans enjoyed some frolicking as well, picking out big, pretty pumpkins to take home (thank goodness we brought our wagon!). Dennis rode the tractor train and spent so much time playing on the giant inflatables that he didn't complain when it was time to leave!

Lemonade's brain is showing some signs of intelligent life. Dennis let him out of his crate and didn't tell us, and I happened to wander by Dennis' room and saw the pup sitting calmly (!) on Dennis' discarded shirt. Dennis said he'd let him out "a while ago" and I panicked and checked for surprises he might have left, but the floor was clean. He wasn't chewing on anything either, also weird, and I chalked it up to his being completely exhausted after our outing today. But tonight, he ran to the front door when he needed to go out. Twice. I'm not kidding myself thinking there won't be mistakes, but any potty success (in a not-quite-seven-week-old puppy) after just 2 days of living here is encouraging!

The bake sale for my women's circle is tomorrow at church, so I've spent hours bonding with my mixer. I went on a grocery and saw blade run earlier, and while I was at Walmart (because where else could you buy groceries and a saw blade?), I picked up the last size small Optimus Prime Halloween costume that they had in stock. Guess who spent hours as Optimus tonight! I loved surprising him, sort of. I think he must have expected to get an Optimus costume because when I arrived home and presented it to him, he said (while jumping up and down in delight) "my Optimus Prime suit finally came! Thanks, Mom!". Maybe he'd prayed for it? Or maybe he'd asked for it enough times that he expected us to get it. He's had a happy week for sure: the county fair, a new puppy, a football game, AND a pumpkin patch trip. And it's all been so much fun!