Oaktober is a great time to find that perfect pumpkin at Daisi Hill Farm in Millerton NY (which will be highlighted in Rachel Ray's magazine.) They kindly helped me get a great pumpkin to donate toward the local events as I can manage to haul the 20-lber Great Pumpkin about to share. (Read this next part with caution as this includes some real-life jazz like birth stories...oh joy)
That's my hometown and the place of Kaelan's high school..and sadly not far from the river which claimed his life in June of 2009 when he tried to save a friend (who was thankfully rescued moments later...so