{"id":3777,"date":"2011-10-22T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2011-10-22T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T03:41:28","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-apples-pots-and-home-haunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Apples, Pots, and Home Haunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"La Catrina by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6270860407\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6224\/6270860407_c019fc6098.jpg\" alt=\"La Catrina\" width=\"248\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Catrina takes first prize<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>This cloudy Saturday found us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandnursery.com\/events\/appletasting.shtml\">Portland Nursery&#8217;s Apple Tasting<\/a>. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d never been there. Man, that place is huge for being right in the city.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Line at apple tasting by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6270860315\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6217\/6270860315_642276993b_m.jpg\" alt=\"Line at apple tasting\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The line to get to the apples<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We tasted a few dozen varieties of apples and pears, then bought some for the tasty price of .99\/lb. We met some nice people, too! Of course, the reason I wanted to go was the scarecrows.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a title=\"Scarlette O'Hayra by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6271387576\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6227\/6271387576_23168e60eb_m.jpg\" alt=\"Scarlette O'Hayra\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Edgar Allen Crow by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6271387926\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6120\/6271387926_1b36eb5dbe_m.jpg\" alt=\"Edgar Allen Crow\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ico\" src=\"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/imagestore\/pumpicon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On our way out to the fest, we saw something intriguing along Stark St., so I had to go back and have a look. Turns out it was <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/scarehollow\/\">Scare Hollow<\/a>, a home haunt that has grown over the last five years from a few animatronic props to a full-blown walk-thru with actors. This year, it&#8217;s all about a futuristic town gone bad. They open on Wednesday. I think I have to go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Scare Hollow by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6271387678\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6116\/6271387678_9357173315_m.jpg\" alt=\"Scare Hollow\" width=\"240\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scare Hollow<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"ico\" src=\"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/imagestore\/pumpicon.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other thing we did on the way back is check out the house on Long Street, otherwise known as <a href=\"http:\/\/lonesomeville.com\/events.html\">Lonesomeville Pottery<\/a>. Every year they put up great scarecrows, and dozens and dozens of pumpkins, both carved and ceramic. You simply <em>must<\/em> see this place at night. But even better, their Autumn Sale is next Friday.\u00a0 They have seasonal items, which I&#8217;m hoping means I can grab a pumpkin or two!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cloudy Saturday found us at Portland Nursery&#8217;s Apple Tasting. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;d never been there. Man, that place is huge for being right in the city. We tasted a few dozen varieties of apples and pears, then bought some for the tasty price of .99\/lb. We met some nice people, too! Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-spooky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}