Re: Tyranny of the Flowers

Vince,

Good to hear that everything is normal at your place!
Does this secret location have the soil to get you to 1000?

By the way, your 981 is doing very well for me:

http://idahopumpkin.tripod.com/

Cliff


--- vince <anaid_tecuod@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know what I did to offend the pumpkin gods, but they
> have banded together and colluded to make my life miserable.  I
> first suspected this fearful conspiracy after an onslaught of
> seemingly unrelated events... an inner ear problem, a hard
> drive crash and the rains which just would not stop.  
> 
> I was unable to till early in the spring because of the mud and
> red corn poppies invaded the patch - the plants were four feet
> high and had an attitude.  When I finally fought back and went
> after the poppies - my daughters cursed me and wondered how I
> could be so cruel. (daddy you're killing the flowers, how could
> you?)
> 
> But I knew I was outnumbered and outflanked when I finally
> fired up my waterlogged tiller and mangled metal parts started
> oozing out of the housing next to the power axle..... Over the
> roar of the tiller, I could hear the pumpkin gods laughing at
> the hilarious expression on my face.
> 
> That was it, really, the last straw.  There will be no pumpkins
> growing in the Yin and Yang patch this year.  I'm throwing in
> the towel and ceding control of the patch to the flowers...
> 
> http://home.pacbell.net/diana_do/flowers.htm
> 
> Even with this dreary turn of events, there is a sparkle of
> hope - a secret garden in a place far away, next to quiet creek
> -  unbeknownst to the meddling pumpkin gods.  A dream is
> quietly growing there -  If you close your eyes, relax, and
> breathe softly you can almost feel the promise of something
> big, orange and wonderful...
> 
> vince
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