An Afternoon at the Farm

Mom and a few relatives recently visited a local farm, as many people like to do around here in fall. 

First order of business: ride the trailer behind the tractor out to the pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin!

In addition to tons of traditional orange pumpkins, various other gourds were also growing:

fancy

bubbly

watermelon-like

ghostly

Here are the ones Mom's group picked:

Mom's is the orange one in front with the purple sticker. (The stickers, all glittery happy faces, indicated they were bought.) =^)

After enjoying fresh donuts and hot apple cider, they also visited the farm animals. No equines, sadly, but there were bovines galore!

Most were black or piebald, and a few appeared to be totally white. They were shy at first, but eventually they moved in to investigate.

They also visited rabbits:

turkeys:

goats:

sheep:

pigs:

and an especially sweet brown calf:

What a great afternoon they had!

Lily will be posting later this month about her birthday, which was this past Tuesday. It turned out to be fairly eventful both on HI2 and HI3, but I will wait and let her explain.

In the meantime, enjoy these screenshots of our recent HI3 wanderings:

We caught another horse named "Thingvellir!" It's the only duplicate name we've had so far.

Swamps glow in the dark!

Wild horses still roam at night. We have yet to determine if they disappear when a new day dawns.

Hello, cacti! No hugging them, though. We've kept a respectful distance, since we've heard they can injure your horse if you ride into them. 

Pirate treasure - HI3 version! They seem to be way more rare than on HI2.

Pots of gold glow faintly in the dark. :*)

A wild hanging out on a sandbar. He was one of our coolest-looking wilds so far.

Maybe he was out there standing in the sun too long...