Re: Comments on Dick Baird
Dan your 100% right you couldn't get a better man.I've known Dick for
probably better than 10 years and me and him were constantly at each others
throats.If you didn't know the 2 of us you would think we hate each
other.Hell he pulled a shotgun on me last year on the tour at Dave Stelts
patch told me I wasn't welcome around these parts.Maybe it was because I had
handcuffed and arrested at my wedding in front of 400 people 2 years ago
this weekend or maybe it was that time about 4 years ago when the tour was
at his place and he had hardly any pumpkins in his patch well me and Dave
Stelts took a 200lb cull from my patch and tucked it up under his leaves the
night before the tour well let me tell you what he almost had a heart attack
when he saw it the next day,you think 25 to 30 lbs a day is good well 200
lbs in 1 night that has to be a record(by the way he beat me that year and
came up and put his arm around me and said"Jerry you know that pumpkin you
screwed with me on-well thetas it I grafted it on to the plant")He was one
Hell of a guy that I'll miss Jerry Rose
PS I'm lucky I'm typing this because I don't think I could do it if I had
talk to somebody and tell them
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan & Beth Carlson <carlson@sanasys.com>
To: pumpkins <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: Comments on Dick Baird
> Truely a great man.....Funny and very generous.....A story about my
> first meeting with Dick!!!
> Went to the ohio tour for the first time 3 years ago.....They give
> away a few real real nice pumpkin shaped cutting boards....We wanted one
> real real bad...of course...our names were never drawn......SOOOOOOOOO I
> musturd up some courage and walked up to Dick....introduced myself
> ..told him I was from Iowa.....He asked if I was having a good time and
> such.....I told him I was a little troubled....He asked what about.....I
> told him I really only wanted 2 things on my first trip to the Ohio
> picnic..He asked what they were.......I replied...#1 was to meet and
> greet the great Dick Baird I had heard so much about......#2 was to get
> one of those damn nice Cutting boards His sawmill makes!!!! Well let's
> just say 2 weeks from that day a Cutting board was delivered to my house
> back in Iowa.... I do remember him mentioning one thing all pumpkin
> growers have in common no matter where they grow....They all have a long
> line of bullshit!!!! LOL!!!! He made my whole family feel right at home!!!
> DAN Carlson
>
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> "At my wedding, I'm not having cake, I'm having pizza"
> -Nick Carlson
>
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