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Re: First time growing horror story

Maybe you could make a case for the electro-magnetic fields generated by
the cable having stunted your guaranteed prize-winning pumpkins. Then all
you'd need would be an expert witness at the trial. Hmmm, what's Duncan
doing these days, with all that knowledge but no pumpkins......????

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> From: Nikki Randquist <nikki@leavitt.com>
> To: pumpkins@athenet.net
> Subject: First time growing horror story
> Date: Friday, August 29, 1997 10:56 AM
> 
> 	I thought I could add our experience to this thread.  Of course you have
> all heard about our battle with US West.. Well, we won the battle but may
> have lost the war.  We now have a huge/ugly cable running along our back
> fence and it lays on the ground through the pumpkin patch.  I might add
> that we sacrificed our giant sunflowers to save our patch!  One might
think
> that after such a long and drawn out ordeal that we might end up with
> something to wave in the face of those darn telephone people as an "I
told
> you so!"  That would have been the icing on the cake.. But it is not
going
> to happen.  We have pumpkins, but they are all small.. Nothing even as
big
> as a basketball.. :(   We are fighting powdery mildew and bugs like mad,
> but to no avail.. Looks like there will be nothing even close to a prize
> winner in our patch..  Maybe I could blame this all on the warmer coast
> waters?	
> 	I am thinking about buying the biggest pumpkin I can find and just
placing
> it among our vines so that the telephone people (they must be spying!)
will
> have something to look at anyway.. :)
> 
> Looking forward to next year!
> 
> Nikki
> 
>     
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> 
> 	      "No matter how hard you think it is going to be,
> 	           you end up wishing it was that easy."
> 
> Nikki@leavitt.com
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