The Great Pumpkin Delivery

Conference Appointments have been sent home.

Please let me know if you will be able to make it.

Thursday afternoon a bunch of McKay staff got together and drove to Hermiston with a horse trailer to collect enough pumpkins for our primary students at McKay School. We thought, if we can't GO to the pumpkin patch, we will BRING the pumpkin patch to us.

Here is Mrs. Stewart welcoming us into the patch.

We met this wonderful woman (Mrs. Krusow) who is very generous and loves children.

She and her husband GAVE us over 300 pumpkins for free.
This is Mr. Krusow, the pumpkin farmer, who grew this wonderful field of pumpkins. He kept searching for more pumpkins to put in our truck.
They had cut the pumpkins off the vine and piled them along the road in the field for us to pick up.
Then we came along and relayed them into the trailer.

Catch Mrs. Stewart!

Truck and trailer is full and we are headed to McKay!

A couple of very good pumpkin gatherers.

Then Friday morning we unloaded all the pumpkins while it was still dark out and placed them around the front lawn.

Then when the children arrived at school we went out and everyone got to select a pumpkin to take home.

Then we brought them inside and started writing our thank you notes.

CC is measuring her pumpkin to help her describe it.

Everyone busy at work. Look at how many students are holding their pumpkins as they work.

Ahhhh, happiness and contentment.

This was the best pumpkin patch experience that I have ever experienced.

I hope everyone was as happy with the surprise as I was.

Happy Fall everyone!

See newspaper article at:

http://eastoregonian.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=99373