Posts Tagged ‘pumpkin patch’
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Another Pumpkin Patch is behind us and again it was a huge success… the weather was in the high seventies all weekend which helped. We had some great volunteers this year including volunteers for the Randy Pluff benefit (more on that at a later date), Southern Door 8th graders and the Maritime Museum. I thought the bees were going to be a huge problem since I got stung not once but twice on Friday when we were cooking brats. But Saturday and Sunday the bees didn’t seem to be a huge problem. The University of Wisconsin Marching Band did their Fifth Quarter performance compliments of Dave and Vonnie Callsen from Main Street Market. Always a hit with the crowd is Big Mouth and the Power Tool Horns.
Here are some random pics of the craziness…
Don Helm and I fighting the smoke
Not to be left out… Polly Helm and me…
The Kugle kids got their faces painted… too cute!
Cole Biwer keeping the peace…
Mike and Carrie from 106.9 The Lodge with Bruce from the Lull-Abi and me for our 2nd annual Pumpkin Patch photo op…
Yes… I am in all the pictures but hey it’s my blog.
This is the main reason I like to help at Pumpkin Patch…
Our Flanigan Distributing helpers Cubby Hartl and Brian Flanigan
And none other than Mark Sawyer is in charge of cooking the brats for the Egg Harbor Business Association… It’s a lot of fun working it but I think the beer helps.
Next up… Sister Bay’s Fall Festival!
Tags: annual pumpkin, Benefit, caption, Fall, festivals, food, fun, Maritime, mark sawyer, nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp, problem, pumpkin patch, university of wisconsin marching band, Weather, weekend, width
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
All hands on deck Pumpkin Patch is here! The tents are being set up already in Harbor View Park. The beer wagon opens for business tomorrow and Mark, Nellie and I are selling brats tomorrow as well for the official kick off. We will know Pumpkin Patch has arrived when our friends Sue and Mark who live in Chicago stop by for their annual Pumpkin Patch Friday brats and beer. Note to Sue… control yourself this year! Look for us cooking the brats Saturday and Sunday too. The weather is going to be spectacular so it should be a great weekend. See you there!
| Saturday, October 8 |
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| 9am-4:30pm |
Silent Auction |
| 10am-2pm |
Modern Day Drifters |
| 10am-4pm |
Carnival Rides & Inflatable Bouncers |
| 10am-4pm |
Face Painting |
| 10am-5pm |
Juried Arts & Crafts Vendors at Baylake Bank |
| 11am-1pm |
Children’s Musician Randy Peterson |
| 11am-3pm |
Roaming Magician Bruce Hetzler |
| 1pm-4pm |
Storyteller Carol Johnson |
| 2pm-5:30pm |
Mango Brothers | Jimmy Buffet Tribute |
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| Sunday,
October 9 |
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| 10am-1:15pm |
Mighty Mouth | Rock & Blues |
| 10am-4pm |
Carnival Rides & Inflatable Bouncers |
| 10am-4pm |
Face Painting |
| 10am-5pm |
Juried Arts & Crafts Vendors at Baylake Bank |
| 12pm-3pm |
Storyteller Carol Johnson |
| 1:15-1:45pm |
UW-Madison Marching Band performs |
| 1:30pm-4:30pm |
Big Mouth & The Power Tool Horns | Rock & Blues |
| 3pm |
Door County Maritime Museum Canoe Raffle Drawing Winner Announced |
Tags: annual pumpkin, baylake bank, Bouncers, Door County, festivals, food, fun, harbor view park, Inflatable, inflatable bouncers, music, October, Painting, pumpkin patch, shopping, tomorrow, Weather, weekend
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Monday, September 26th, 2011
Fall colors… that is!
Now don’t freak out, just because your reservation in Door County doesn’t begin until the middle of October or later, don’t lose faith. The fall color here in Door County lasts for weeeeeks. Seriously. Right now there are some golds (and reds in some drought ravaged trees) so it is really just beginning, albeit very pretty. The familiar haze is in the air and I am waiting for a bright blue sky day to complement the beginnings of what should be a spectacular Door County fall foliage experience. Everyone that knows me knows I love summer… but fall is seriously a close second. And personally, I don’t think you can find a finer place to experience it than in Door County.
Egg Harbor’s Pumpkin Patch, one of the the biggest festivals in Door County is a mere two weeks away. The village already has cornstalks out and has a scarecrow contest every year. We need to assemble our scarecrow this week but first we need a theme. Any ideas? Even though our Egg Harbor Lodge exhibit consists of the most basic scarecrow every year, we seriously cannot remember how to assemble our display from year to year. But this year… I am Flip videoing the whole process so we will know exactly what to do next year. We never win but with a crew of exactly 2… what do you expect? We still think ours is great even though we are known to duplicate previous efforts. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right?
Tags: blue sky day, county fall foliage, Door County, egg harbor lodge, faith, Fall, fall folliage, freak, haze, October, pumpkin patch, scarecrow, scarecrow contest
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Well, I made it through three, yes three festivals… Cranberry Fest in Eagle River (crazy), Pumpkin Patch in Egg Harbor (busy) and Fall (down) Fest in Sister Bay (I plead the 5th). I am about festivaled (not a real word) out.
Last week on our way home from Green Bay, we stopped at Rock Falls, a restaurant just south of Dykesville on Hwy. 57.
We LOVE Rock Falls. The bartender/owner, Jon Robinson is really personable and easy on the eyes which is a bonus…
They have a typical but yummy supper club type menu (steaks, fish, seafood, pasta) and a pretty cheap lobster and steak special which we ordered because we love it. We don’t get to Rock Falls very often so when we do get there we try and get the surf and turf special… luckily we landed there on a Tuesday. Actually, anything we have ordered there has been super good.
We ran into Elaine Macdonald of Bayside Tavern fame… she was dining with her friend Barbara Lund…
Barbara Lund and Elaine Macdonald
Apparently, we aren’t the only Door County residents who like to stop at Rock Falls on their way home from the big city.
If you want to catch dinner on the way to DC check out Rock Falls, you will want to make it an annual event.
Tags: Dykesville, festivals, food, fun, home, locals, Patch, pumpkin patch, seafood pasta, stuff, surf and turf
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
I didn’t have a whole lot of time to take pictures yesterday… the park was just jammed with people and we were crazy busy. The day was beautiful, the food good and the music amazing. Many of our volunteers are friends of our good friend Mike Kaye who after a virus in his heart is at St. Luke’s in Milwaukee and in need of a heart transplant. The volunteers will receive money for working which will then be given to Mike and his family to help with their mountain of expenses. Working the food tent and cooking the corn is a hard and thankless job and we are truly fortunate to have these people give us a helping hand.
Pete, Allison, Tom and Mariah manning the corn roaster
Brat men... Mark and Glenn
Sarah, Mike, Carrie (106.9 the Lodge) and Bruce drinking beer
Today, I am going back to hell the festival in hopes of taking a walk around and getting a few more photos. That and getting a Bloody Mary from my pal Joe at Shipwrecked.
Tags: beer, corn roaster, food, food tent, heart, mike carrie, pumpkin patch
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Saturday, October 9th, 2010
I took a few photos of some of the scarecrows around the village yesterday. I didn’t get up to the Landmark… usually Jeanne does an awesome job with their display. We on the other hand are able to get up one lowly scarecrow. Ours is pretty traditional…
Packer Backer Pumpkin Patcher
So is the one Jerry is putting up at Trio…
Jerry putting together Trio Restaurant's scarecrow
Others are much more elaborate like this one from the Patricia Shoppe with its hand painted gourds…
Alice in Pumpkin Patch Wonderland
Bruce and Gail from the Lull-Abi put a nice display together as well. Their scarecrows from last year were er, um… well, pumpkins were used as anatomy and not in a good way.
Pumpkin Patch at the Lull-Abi
I am heading downtown now to help with the brats… I will try and get out to get some more pictures of the festivities. I may have to wait until tomorrow however, I imagine it is going to be jammed today.
Tags: Door County... the place to be this fall, hand, hand painted gourds, lull, Pumpkin, pumpkin patch, scarecrows, width
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Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Yes kids… it is almost here, Pumpkin Patch Festival, that is. Here is the schedule although it doesn’t mention that we will be frying a few brats downtown beginning tomorrow since the weather is so nice… that and the beer truck is already there. Check out the schedule…
pumpkin patch 2010
We finished our scarecrow but need to put a few finishing touches on it. Tomorrow I will head downtown and post a few pre-Patch photos along with some scarecrow entries. Gotta love a festival… right?
Tags: beer, beer truck, brats, Door County... the place to be this fall, festivals, fun, Patch, pumpkin patch, scarecrow, schedule, shopping, Weather
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Fall is just about here. No, the colors haven’t really started but the air is cooler and many businesses around Door County have started their fall decorating and that includes Egg Harbor Lodge. Mark and I headed over to Gordy and Eunice Bley’s farm in West Jacksonport to cut cornstalks last week. Eunice worked at Egg Harbor Lodge for many years… we still miss her here. Basically, Mark chops the stalks and I rip off the corn. We made the mistake one year of leaving the corn on and raccoons wreaked havoc with our displays.
Thank goodness we have the Egg Harbor Lodge truck…
Some of the cows came out to check out our progress…
Yesterday, we went to Schartner’s Farm Market to pick pumpkins… actually two loads of pumpkins (the first load included straw bales). Egg Harbor is home to the famous Pumpkin Patch Festival (October 9th and 10th) so one can never have enough pumpkins.
Door County Pumpkin Patch
We took everything back to Egg Harbor Lodge and got everything displayed. It looks really festive. So yes, at Egg Harbor Lodge, fall is officially here!
Tags: Door County... the place to be this fall, egg harbor lodge, farm, festivals, jacksonport, Lodge, pumpkin patch, straw bales, truck
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
I think we had a record number of people this year… Here are a few photos I took over the weekend.
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Debbie, Bob, Bruce, Fred and Mary all serve the brew
I think I got a little brat grease on my lens…
Here is Mark and I on Sunday. There was a lot more time to check out the vendors and listen to the music on Sunday.
Tags: bob bruce, brat, brew, grease, Patch, pumpkin patch, record
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