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for the rest of the posts that first line is a given...just fill in what you remember...it's like reading a fortune cookie only the last line is always "between the sheets" nmext time you read the cookie...end it that way.

so here it goes.
I can remeber when....

The plant had to be 1200 square feet.
How to grow giant pumpkins ....had no Volume numbers
Owen's hair wasn't grey....sorry Owen....baltimore beat us up last week.

when twelve foot of main vine two foot wide was huge to me.

when having a 400 lber in octber was great....now I'm not happy with 400 in August...

you guys get what I mean.

This could be a fun thread!

GrowEmBig!
Chuck

8/5/2008 7:41:13 PM

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I can remember when there was no seed Auctions

I can remember meeting my first heavy hitter,

I remember when Humic acid was dangerous lol

I can remember when digging a 4X4X4 ft pit was the norm

8/5/2008 8:15:25 PM

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

I can remember when I had a life outside of pumpkins

8/5/2008 8:54:59 PM

San Jose [email protected]

I can remember eddy dancing in a tutu, oh sorry thats next years memory

8/5/2008 9:03:36 PM

Mount Prospect,illinois

I can remember when my wife thought i was normal (similar to Jordans post).
I can remember when my brothers wife didnt laugh at us when we would call and talk about the "stages" of growth we were each at.

8/5/2008 9:26:35 PM

Claysburg , PA

I can remember when growing pumpkins was fun and not work .
I can remember when my wife and daughter seen me at home before dark .

8/5/2008 9:29:09 PM

South East

cant rembember anything from before growing pumpkins,,,!!?

8/5/2008 10:03:04 PM

Minnesota

I can remember when all I knew about atlantic giants was what was written on the back of a weekseeds giant pumpkin bag.

8/5/2008 10:14:25 PM

Anamosa, IA [email protected]

I can remember when Sputnik was launched.
I can remember when we had a hand crank phone on the farm.
I can remember riding in my Dad's shiny black 1950 Buick.
I can remember the first color TV and we had 3 channels to watch.
I can remember when Eisenhower was president.
I can remember when Bob Ruff won the first Anamosa wieghoff with one around 290#.
I can remember when that guy from Colorado brought the first 1000# pumpkin to Anamosa, just having trouble remembering his name.
I can't remember the names of half of the people I know.
I can't remember to use my asthma inhaler until I have an attack.
Was that Colorado guy Joe Scherber??

8/5/2008 10:52:19 PM

Knopp, Germany

I can remember when Alex was small enough to fit into one of Chucks field pumpkins.
I can remember when Pappy and Jeff fought out the battle of the south, Pappy won.
I can remember when Boily kept us all happy during the winter by sharing his great diary from Australia.
I can remember when Don Quijot grew the first 1000 pounder in Europe.
I can remember when a 600 pound pumpkin was a guarantee of the top 3 in Germany, now it won’t get you into the top 15.
I can remember when Ken and John used to receive seeds from growers and sell them for postage only.
I can remember when Len Stellpflug did a diary here to help new growers.
I can remember reading about genetics from some Joe Ailts studies.
I can remember meeting Cary and Kenny in chat, they were very friendly and helpful to me.
I can remember when Farmer Scott Armstrong helped newbies out all the time..
I can remember receiving my first 707 Toftness from the man himself my favorite seed of all time.
I can remember when the AGGC was open to all growers for nothing.
I can remember when SVRICHB grew AGs, wish he would grow em again.
I can remember some funny posts by BLKCLOUD, miss him too.
I can remember when the 846 Calai was the only seed to grow for great color.
I can remember when Scott, Joe, Christy, Nick and Tom were still single.
I could go on for ever, this site has been a part of my life for a very long time and means a lot to me.

8/6/2008 4:05:47 AM

Netherlands

I can remember when I still lived in Canada and we had sunshine in the summer.
I can still remember when the WR was only 600 lbs.

8/6/2008 5:05:09 AM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

I can barely remember my name most times, but I can remember most of the highlights mentioned on this thread, I think. LOL.

Phil

8/6/2008 8:43:18 AM

Cochecton, NY

I can remember as a kid seeing a 35lb pumpkin and thinking that was huge.
I can remember when I spent a couple of hours a month in my yard, not a few hours a day.
I can remember when hunting was my only obsession!

8/6/2008 8:55:57 AM

Western NY

I can remember when all we had on the internet for pumpkins was an email list and Dan Gardner's page of links and info.

8/6/2008 9:34:30 AM

ipswich, ma usa

I can remember when Chuck's pile of leaves was taller than my house!

8/6/2008 11:07:48 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

i can remember when there was no internet and all information was word of mouth.

8/6/2008 12:24:16 PM

Paradise, Nova Scotia

I can remember driving to Windsor, Falmouth and Newport on a sunny Sunday afternoon in September and visiting Howard, Danny, Owen and Rod in their pumpkin patches.

8/6/2008 4:10:12 PM

Garden State Pumpkins

This is great!
I can remember when " Gone Nesbitt" was the sign you've totally lost all reality and pumpkins were it!

8/6/2008 5:22:23 PM

Wi

I can remember when I could sleep at night during the summer.

8/6/2008 5:37:34 PM

I can remember when johnnyjohnny would keep us entertained all winter. along a similar vein, where has matfox been lately?

david

8/6/2008 9:32:37 PM

i can remember this site before richard B

8/6/2008 11:40:37 PM

Cornelius, Oregon

I can remember when I had pumpkins growing in the patch...at least the summer has not been great, so taking a year off isn't toooo bad.

8/7/2008 12:10:01 AM

Littleton, Colo

I can remember gas at $1.oo a gallon .....McDonaldz Big Macz were first intoduced....Datsun carz became Hyundai...you could bring nail clipperz on a plane...standing up in the back seat of a car az a kid.....you could burn your fireplace on a cold winterz night without getting a ticket....no political adz on tv....the first Walmart store I ever saw....my first playboy magazine...."The WiZ" leaving for the Navy.....wondering if the Space Shuttle could fly....no remote controlz for anything...shag carpet....orange shag carpet....had to vacuum that orange shag carpet to get allowance.....first lottery ticket.....good old paper grocery bagz.....side bag lawn mowerz.....Catholic Priests ( we won't go there )....Montgomery Wardz catalogz.......growing my first big sunflower seed ....walking in on my mom and dad during relationsz!!......my first beer......channel 2,4,6,7,9 in black and white and that'z all....no rototillerz, turning the garden with a shovel.....the Junior High School being built....Miss Olsen my school bus aid.....bubble yum......the smell of the window screen on a warm summer night.....8 track tapes.....Ford Pintos......the City of Denver could afford to fly the Police helicopter at night......Bruce Jenner in the summer Olympics.......moon landingz in black and white.....returning your pop bottlez at the grocery store........2 guyz on the back of the trash truck on trash day........I could go on but I need to beat The Iceman so I need to get back to the patch !

8/7/2008 1:25:52 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

Datsuns become Nissan.

8/7/2008 8:06:53 AM

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I can remember a world without a super walmart in every city and what is a big box store? When all we had was the corner store and gas station and an Agway. I remember waiting for the fair to come to town in July thinking it was a long wait. Summer camp at Camp Stella Maris, where you could go swimming and have fun and take swimming lessons. Before Nano's, Ipods, cable TV, I remember when cable came to our little town, and cool a remote control and color TV. Rubics cubes, 8 track tapes, vinyl records, and those single 45 records, how cool is that. And as the Biz sayz, we need to get back out to the patch. All good fun and memories.

8/7/2008 9:19:38 AM

Littleton, Colo

Ya..Nissan...I couldn't remember...LOL

8/7/2008 10:20:54 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I remember when...
a 20# field pumpkin was HUGE
Kennedy being shot
Whole milk at 58c a half gallon
Holding onto the chrome bumper of Dad's '56 Ford while learning to walk
$20 worth of groceries was more than a strong man could carry and there was at least half a bag of meat in there.
They put marigold seeds in the cereal, and if you grew a white one it was worth $10k (and that someone did win it)
Dreaming of a 50# pumpkin for carving
Gas at 23.9c
BUYING a 10c comic book off the rack
25c of candy included a hershey bar and you could get sick off all that.
5c Reeses Peanutbutter cups
10c for a 10 oz soda in a glass bottle and that included 1c deposit on the bottle
A 'church key'
Making long strings of poptops for decorating your room
When they got PBS and rejoicing because we had THREE tv channels to watch
Test patterns before the station came on the air?
Nesbitt's Root Beer?
Buying a 50c paperback brand new
A/C meant filling a waxed milk carton with water and freezing it, and putting it in the old loaf pan in front of the fan with the killer metal blades with no mesh guard
Houses with lots of kids, the tuner knob was missing and you had to use a pliers to change channel.
When regular grind hamburger was 91% and the kabitching when they moved it to 88%
Buying a box of Cornflakes for 29c

8/14/2008 3:29:32 PM