Re: California State Pumpkin Weigh-Off - Borchard Farms

Kevin...My highly regarded and respected squash friend....you seem to be  
confused on this issue. Perhaps I caught you off guard.( No...I am not in  Don's 
book, nor have I won first place in a squash contest like you. ) I make no  
mention of fruits being mis-ruled or mis-judged, of pictures not being  
representative of the fruits true colors. And, I certainly don't understand how  
someone who did disagree with a rule would be "disrepecting" the grower and the  
officials. I don't know why you put all this in your email if not to cloud the  
issue I addressed.
 The issue I wished to address is that there is no real difference  between 
35% green and 80% green....the fact of the matter is its likely pumpkin  color 
all year til it "greens up" in lateseason and has no place in a  "all-green", 
real, or "true green" (as some people call it) contest or class  ;  nor , from 
a practical standpoint, is any of the "judging" any easier  for 80% than it 
is for 35%. For you to get your giggles up at a new 80% rule is  silly. Its no 
better---no different.
 You call yourself a trueist...no trueist would  commend an 80%  rule. And to 
infer that we the growers have no say is way wrong. If we  just " sit back"   
nothing will happen...(see the last 5  years as an example Kevin)... we are 
the growers, the rules are for us. We are  usually our own judges. WE make the 
rules. Lets make them right. You sit  back...thats ok...just get out of the 
way when it happens. 
 And here I thought "Squash Buckler" was a pirate term when all along  it 
meant "to bend warp or crumble as in under pressure or intense heat"  (Webster's 
New World Dictionary)......G

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