Re:Great folk at Carnation

Well fellow AG fanatics, it's over for another season, one where I reached
another personal best and one where I met a great many new neat people. My
wife and I thouroughly enjoyed the  weigh off at Carnation and I was
finally able to put faces with the names that have been seeing on the list.
I especially would like to thank Jack LaRue for introducing me to many of
the growers and to Geneva Emmons for sending me the map of the area and
suggesting accomodations for Friday night.
I said the season is over. Well, actually it's beginning all over again.
Tomorrow I'll be putting putting three loads of manure on the garden along
with lime. Have to start replacing the nutrients that these monsters sucked
up during this past summer.
As for my 764 van Kooten '98 (hey, I like that), It will go on display for
awhile before the seeds are harvested. To those of you that had requested
seed, I will send them out when they are properly dried.

This year's been a hoot. Before we know it, we'll be doing it all over
again.

Jake van Kooten, Port Alberni, B.C.


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> From: Tanner, Gordon L <Gordon.Tanner@PSS.Boeing.com>
> To: 'Pumpkin' <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> Subject: met some - missed some
> Date: October 5, 1998 10:18 AM
> 
> How many from the group were at all the weighoffs and did meet everyone
> we wanted to ??
> I guess we should have worn name tags because so many of us missed each
> other.
> I was at Carnation WA.
> 
> I found Chris Michalec, Chris Andersen ( the one from Seattle not
> calif), Brett Hester and Jake Van Kooten- who brought a wonderful 764
> lb. pumpkin, way to go Jake ! ! !
> To bad Chris Michalec's pumpkin was judged to be a squash ! ouch ! it
> looked cream colored to me.  maybe he could use a talk with Rocky.
> 
> We didn't show up til after the weighing had started. I missed meeting
> Duncan, Jan Canyon,  Shellie & Mick, and others?.  I saw all your
> pumpkins on their pallets and probably saw all of you too- but just
> didn't know it was you-  we could have been standing next to each other.
> 
> 
> I met and talked with Joel Holland for a while.  I struck up a
> conversation with a guy who i didn't know who he was - we talked for a
> while, he was just about to tell me all his growing secrets when he said
> excuse me I have to go up while they weigh my pumpkin- it was Paul Handy
> - who won with a 936.5 lbs.  He's a nice guy.  I was bold and passed out
> some pre-addressed and stamped bubble packs to some people- we'll see
> what i get back. 
> 
> next year - we need to remind each other before the weighoffs - and come
> up with some way to be sure to meet each other. name tags -meet at a
> time and place - or something.   now we have to wait a year to put a
> person and a face with a name on an email. 
> anyway my family and i had a good time. 
> 
> Gordon Tanner
> Maple Valley WA
> 
> 
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