Los Flemings

Last week at the fair the Dept. of Ag. Standards Division had a scale set up for folks to get themselves weighed. Sam came in just over 40 pounds and since then has been refering to himself as 'the 40 pound boy'. Today he dropped something in the car, reached down from his car seat and grabbed the item. He then explained that's the sort of thing that a 40 pound boy can do.

Here's the 40 pound farmer with the first of our radish harvest. We turned several into radish stew based on a recipe from the New Leaf Market back in Tallahassee - along with some of our own organic collard greens, some chick peas and potatoes.





Saturday the dudes went in search of pre-Halloween festivities. First with a stop at one of the local pumpkin vendors and then on to a county park for Halloween themed fun. Sam got to jump in a bouncy house, meet a corn snake up close and had a bat and ghost painted on the back of his hand.












When we got home it was time for pumpking carving.

















Finally, today we headed into downtown Raleigh to the NC Museum of History for a little culture. They have a Day of the Dead exhibit set up and today there was a gentleman, Abad Banuelos, decorating 'caleveritas' - sugar candies, in this case molded in the forms of skulls, that are then decorated with colorful icing and patterns to remind you of the person being honored. For example, on one the forehead was covered with flowers in honor of a family member who loved to garden. Sam was fascinated - especially when the artist offered a little taste of the candy with a couple of dots of icing.