Ramblings
One of the reasons I was so excited about the farm stand (other than the obvious) … there used to be a farm stand in Melville called “Meyer’s Farm”. I suspect it was owned by the same family as own the store in Woodbury. While the farm stand in Woodbury is just a store, the place in Melville had a few small fields. They grew pumpkins on site. My dad used to take us there for our Halloween pumpkins. Later, I took my own children for pumpkins, hay rides and pony rides. It’s a public park now. And yes, the cauliflower was really good. And yes, those three small pumpkins in my yard came from Meyer’s. We had a nice number of trick-or-treaters yesterday. It was unseasonably warm so I really got to see costumes. Best one was a dinosaur, best group were kids dressed as minions from Despicable Me, cutest was the newborn in the pumpkin onesie. The ring doorbell crowd … they’re all complaining about candy thieves, same complaint every year. If you leave a bowl of candy out for trick