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As I sit here typing this blog I look out my office window and see a sea of orange covering our lawn. Pumpkins: large ones, medium sized ones, small ones, orange ones, warty ones, white ones, and red ones all lined up neatly with a sign in front of each line indicating the price. For nineteen years this has been the fall tradition at our house and the community expects it and looks forward to it. I would be a rich man if I received…..
I know what you’re thinking. This blog writer has lost it! Memorial Day is approaching and he’s writing a blog about getting ready for Halloween. Give me a second and I can explain. What is the major decoration or symbol for Halloween? No, I’m not speaking of witches, ghosts, corn shocks, black cats or corn mazes. They are all an important part of the Halloween celebration but it wouldn’t be Halloween without pumpkins. Now where do you suppose pumpkins come from? They don’t just appear magically…..
I’m a pumpkin farmer and as harvest time approaches I look back and realize there’s a battle going on in our profession. It’s not with the neighbors or the UPS man who occasionally visits. The spray planes that frequently buzz our house are even tolerated. The real battle is with all the little critters that are living among us and who assume we are renting space from them! The first critter to make life miserable for a pumpkin farmer are…..
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