Re: Winning glory

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• To: "Bill Verchère" <b*@island.net>, "Pumpkin Newsgroup" <p*@athenet.net>
• Subject: Re: Winning glory
• From: "* b* <d*@saltspring.com>
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:32:40 -0700

Tsk, tsk, shame shame! Mine is still all in one piece but has done like her
older sisters and stopped growing right about the seventy inch mark. I'm
still taking her to the Fall Fair, maybe no one else grew a pumpkin this
year......

By the way, if you come on Sunday, my Celtic group Black Velvet Band will
be performing on the stage at 12:30. I sing and play mandolin and bodhran.

Denise McCann Beck
USDA Zone 7
Sunset Western 4
Coastal Bristish Columbia

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> From: Bill Verchère <billv@island.net>
> To: Pumpkin Newsgroup <pumpkins@athenet.net>
> Subject: Winning glory
> Date: Sunday, September 14, 1997 8:37 PM
> 
> It happened last night, and it's an awful gash - the stem end of my
pumpkin
> 
> looks as though its been hit with an axe. Is that what they call stem
> split?
> Like a weight-lifter on steroids ... IT'S BLOWN! 
> 
> But what the heck - I'll keep going. Maybe I can bluff my way through the
> local
> garden centre contest. They don't know anything about rules. The
newspapers
> 
> will see I'm the biggest, my picture will be in all the papers. I'll be
> smiling,
> I'll be happy, and, legal or not - I'll win fame, I'll win glory.....
> 
> ... AND I'LL HAVE THE BIGGEST PUMPKIN!
> 
>  
> Bill Verchere, 
> Ladysmith, BC Canada
> 
>                   
>    Visit my Giant Pumpkin and Extreme Skiing Page at
>    http://www.island.net/~billv/

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