manor school kindergarten class #2 visited gospel flats farm in bolinas today and had a wonderful time with farmer mickey, a fourth generation farmer. they have a mostly fruit and vegetable farm (but they do have some animals), an educational mobile boat-on-wheels that teaches everyone to eat local and a farm stand. the kids got to "harvest" sunflower seeds, chard and zucchini (the latter to feed the pigs and rabbits). noble even got to come as an honorary kindergartener. we bought some produce and flowers to take home with us. the kids ate fresh apples on the way home. i chauferred 4 girls, noble and one other mom. good thing for the extra mom!
this year mahala wanted to be a dinosaur. THEN i realized my sewing machine was buried somewhere in storage. not to worry though-i had my glue gun! and i thought noble could be a caveboy since that was a REALLY easy costume to make! mahala picked her fabrics (insisting that the dino have stripes, not dots like i suggested, in sparklely felt). we took part in the fairax town parade which was along the downtown route and involved trick or treating at the local businesses. it ended at the park in a grove of redwoods lit up and decorated for the event. the we went trick or treating for a short time on the official trick or treating street-complete with lot of decorations and lights, drumming paraders and some pyrotechnics even!
