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What is your favorite fall activity?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on September 22, 2008
“Taking our three kids to the pumpkin patch. I like watching them pick them out. Then we carve them, and I make a pumpkin pie and roast the seeds.”
“Spending more time with my kids. I don’t get to hang out with them quite as much during the summer time.”
“Definitely climbing trees. It makes me the happiest 10-year-old.”
“Tailgating and going to KU football games.”
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Comments
BuffyloGal 4 years, 8 months ago
Getting up again.
Dejacrew423 4 years, 8 months ago
Baking and going to the Pumpkin Patch with the girls.
matahari 4 years, 8 months ago
When the frost is on the pumpkin, it's time for dickie dunkin!
alm77 4 years, 8 months ago
Everything! Baked goods, seasonal brew, wassle (how do you spell that?), long sleeves, crunchy leaves, sitting around the last outdoor fire of the year, and starting the first fires of the season in the fireplace. Helping the kids with their pumpkins, putting up the fall decor. Making halloween costumes. That crisp feeling in the air. Fall is my FAVORITE season!!
jaycat 4 years, 8 months ago
Watching all of the neighbors blow their leaves into my yard.
conservativepunker 4 years, 8 months ago
Rocktober. Seriously avoiding Football geeks, (no offense), but I really can't stand the game. I get tired of hearing about it, and there are other things to do do. I love camping in the fall with friends, I love the days when it's sunny, yet only about 50 degrees out with leaves all over the ground. It truly is my favorite time of year. One Football question-- on games that are televised, they allot what is it, 3 hours? Yet I have never been aware of a game that has ended in that amount of time. Why don't they just allot say 3.5 hours?
sgtwolverine 4 years, 8 months ago
Punker:Jacksonville @ Indianapolis actual game time: 2:56Arizona @ Washington: 2:58KC @ Atlanta: 2:59Detroit @ San Francisco: 2:58With the exception of a couple overtime games, pretty much every other game was 3:10 or under, and the longest overtime game was 3:31.
jonas_opines 4 years, 8 months ago
Skydiving followed closely by base-jumping.Ba dum ching.
sgtwolverine 4 years, 8 months ago
Football. Football football football. Friday nights and Saturday afternoons are the best times of the fall.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 4 years, 8 months ago
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold,Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.Robert Frost
acoupstick 4 years, 8 months ago
Hunting and watching football. Watching my daughter tear up the soccer field. Being able to drink beer that doesn't look like watered down urine.
George_Braziller 4 years, 8 months ago
Counting down until it's Spring. Fall is wonderful during the day but the whole dark dreary period from late November through February depresses the hell out of me.
riverdrifter 4 years, 8 months ago
Harvesting pumpkins & fall squash. Tearing out tomato plants & planting garlic in place.Grouse/woodcock hunting on the north shore of Lake Superior. Hitting the road soon. The best pheasant hunting in Kansas is near the winter solstice. Kick them out of the roost at first & last light. Alone, with dog. Balvenie to follow.
Dejacrew423 4 years, 8 months ago
thanks trinity, we'll have to check it out, is it open during the week?
JJE007 4 years, 8 months ago
Belle chase and just about everything else...the snowy tree crickets, excited leopard frogs calling in the goldfish pand, the deer in my city yard and squirrel reminding me of what's important.
fleeba 4 years, 8 months ago
Halloween!!!Lighting up a fireplacePlaying in the pile of leaves racked upCarving pumpkinsWearing a sweater in the morning
dancemomx2 4 years, 8 months ago
Baking pumpkin cheesecakes, pies, cookies, bread. Oh the house smells so good.
Aileen Dingus 4 years, 8 months ago
Louisburg Cider Barn and Corn Maze. :) We try to get the last hayride of the year every year.
GSWtotheheart 4 years, 8 months ago
wassail is how you spell that...I love it!
snap_pop_no_crackle 4 years, 8 months ago
Spiced ham roasting on an open fire,lemurs nipping at your nose.....
KansasPerson 4 years, 8 months ago
Apple-picking! I love it! We've been going to the Fieldstone orchards which are near Overbrook. They also have Asian pears and other things. We usually make a long afternoon of it.There's also a place called Wildhorse Orchard which is run by the Walters family out near McLouth. They stopped doing pick-your-own for a while (liability insurance was too high) but I heard they recently started up again. Anyway, they are also usually at the Farmers' Market. We started calling their booth "The Apple Lady" when my son was little, because that's how he remembered it (she gives free slices!) -- and we went on calling it that even long after we learned their actual name. :)I love pumpkin-picking, too -- even more fun with children along! And I guess I'll also mention the butterfly migration -- that's kinda late summer/early fall, isn't it?I love it when it gets almost really cold, around the end of October. (But no ice storms, please!)But my all-time fall favorite is the leaves. They are so beautiful!
trinity 4 years, 8 months ago
deja there is a really nice apple place on I-35 just southwest of ottawa about 8, 10 miles-pome on the range! :)
dajudge 4 years, 8 months ago
Going to the dog park with my dogs.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous 4 years, 8 months ago
banned: "Getting into something warm:."BuffyloGal: "Getting up again." Couldn't have said it better, myself.
Dejacrew423 4 years, 8 months ago
Dazie, is that only open on weekends and how long is it open? We go to Schaake's every year for pumpkins but I couldn't find an apple orchard anywhere close on google. We picked the in-laws apples but they have no flavor for some reason. I need some good apples!!!
happypill4014 4 years, 8 months ago
The River Run car show in Ottawa - It is the best!
trinity 4 years, 8 months ago
long motorcycle rides. beeyooteeful. :)
bad_dog 4 years, 8 months ago
Bug eye glasses.
gphawk89 4 years, 8 months ago
Waxing the skis and waiting for the snow.
TopJayhawk 4 years, 8 months ago
riverdrifter."Balvenie to follow" you said a mouthfull there. A mouthwatering mouthfull......I love it.
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