Re: Pumpkin contest protocol
Most will allow for a husband, and a wife entry , knowing the widow status....
While others think it is a way of some greedy grower to take more than his/ her
fair share, I for one do not look upon it that way, for you are very corrrect in
your statement that it is as much hers as yours for putting up with the crap,
watching children while you prune tertiaries, while you stroll to the patch
before coming in the door after work to see how the patchis doing before yousee
how the wife and kids are doing, for cleaning the mud off the floor I tracked in
after burying vines........... Anyone else feel this way? Personally, my wife
doesnt even like coming to the contests, she is like the New Yorker in Green
Acres, and I am more like the - down to earth lets eat out of the garden type
person... But I still love her, just bewcause she doesnt like Ag's, she puts up
with it, now all I have to do is tell her of my intentions of tilling up another
10 X 20 ft section of the lawn.. **sigh**
LIpumpkin@aol.com wrote:
> A question as it relates to GPC sanctioned weighoffs....."Pumpkin Widow" is a
> term,as I understand it,describing the wife (or significant other to be
> pollitically correct) of a giant pumpkin grower.She cuts the lawn now,washes
> the cars(I wish),etc that the pumpkin grower should be doing while he's in
> the patch trying to grow a world record pumpkin.She takes off the covers when
> the sun comes out,puts on the blankets when he has to work late,and turns off
> the water when its time.She is a constant weather monitor,squirrel chaser,and
> pumpkin patch kid monitor.Since she(or he-to be pollitically correct) had as
> much to do with the success of the pumpkin growers efforts as the pumpkin
> grower himself,I have heard that it is acceptable to enter a pumpkin in her
> name. Is this acceptable or true? How is it looked upon by the veteran
> growers or mainstream growers on this list?My wife has claimed my Rockwell as
> hers,and I'm losing the battle!..........Glenn A.
>
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