{"id":914,"date":"2010-11-09T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2012-01-21T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T03:33:09","slug":"winslows-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Winslow&#8217;s Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1434\/5156822806_1ea71c1235.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0044\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, you know this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=899\" target=\"_blank\">place<\/a> I was telling you about? Well, it belongs to a very nice woman who employs very nice people in her store\/restaurant, and those nice people invited us to join them on their Annual Winslow&#8217;s Farm &#8220;Day in the Country&#8221; potluck last Sunday! I think we were invited mainly because of Milo&#8217;s outgoing nature&#8230; he kind of became the mascot of the place, aided by his always wearing a costume like Thor or Captain Hook, or an old man with a mustache, or his goat hat&#8230; plus wings&#8230; plus bumblebee rain boots&#8230; you get the picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1230\/5156822474_326a78ac61.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0033\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So thanks, Milo, for making us some friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh, and we all hopped into our friend Ingrid&#8217;s van (woo-hoo, minivan!) and headed to the country <em>together<\/em>, quiche and glazed pumpkin cookies and two screaming babies (well, only at first) in tow. The weather was blissfully warm yet still autumn-y. And once we arrived&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1201\/5156818188_cce541405b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0006\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1330\/5156208323_4c0a11f206.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0008\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1410\/5156208743_29f009e431.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0010\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Miss Sassy and Mr. Grumpy<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; two eager buddies lead the way to the lake, the food, and the fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4049\/5156209139_5b9eddf2c8.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1109\/5156821012_fa6d635d5b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0021\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And of course, the caramel apples.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1402\/5156214779_258cf3e482.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0068\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Autumn light<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4057\/5156824354_480683602b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0059\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A little bit of luck<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We really only knew a handful of people there, but no matter. There were kids, there was food, a little fire, two big pots of chili (one veggie, one meat-y), even two rowboats to explore the lake (though we watched from the pier). And since we passed on the boat ride, Milo and Eliza invented a new use for the boat: slide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/5156826928_44e190b357.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0086\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1257\/5156217431_de7569b34a.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0094\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/5156827382_3ec784703a.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0089\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/5156219171_44208ab753.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0107\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And Oliver, not to be left behind, was right there with the rest of &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1438\/5156220593_c247a5806a.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0120\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4025\/5156831128_7082dfe75e.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0127\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Saying good-bye to our favorite egg-producers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thank you, Henny Penny!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And thank you weather, and thank you, Winslow&#8217;s Home peeps. We had a blast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you know this place I was telling you about? Well, it belongs to a very nice woman who employs very nice people in her store\/restaurant, and those nice people invited us to join them on their Annual Winslow&#8217;s Farm &#8220;Day in the Country&#8221; potluck last Sunday! I think we were invited mainly because of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winslow&#8217;s Farm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[76,174,173,88,171],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-favorite-places","tag-costuming","tag-favorite-places","tag-green-living","tag-st-louis","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}