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Joliet, IL

as the holidays have arrived, i have run into friends from long ago who are in town for Christmas and have no idea what i have been doing for the last 8 years. as far as they know, i am still a normal human being.

and then someone in the group says, "did you know shaz grows giant pumpkins now?" and they say what are you talking about.

and then there comes the look. you have to explain the unexplainable. yes....i now grow giant pumpkins.....and then the stories unfold....lol....it is so hard to explain how or why....but if they know you...they always know you had it in you...i love the holidays...merry christmas

12/21/2009 11:23:14 PM

Pumpkintown, SC

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt...belly outgrew it.
Don't even try to explain. Just smile that smirk, that only a mad scientist can smile...

12/21/2009 11:58:57 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

Amen Snake!

12/22/2009 12:14:00 AM

Littleton, Colo

Don't worry about it.....they'll never understand ....... juzt focuz on the prize.......mozt people are too worried about FaceBook, Twitter and their Nintendo wii to even know what'z really going on......

12/22/2009 12:31:09 AM

Ohio

lol!!

12/22/2009 4:39:21 AM

Glosta

"still a normal human being" LMAO.

Remember Giant pumpkin graowers are the only normal humans everyone else is screwed up.

12/22/2009 4:54:48 AM

canal winchester ohio

I don't have to explain it. I wear a ballcap that says Circleville on the front & Pumpkin Show on the back and no matter where in the state I am people will see it & ask if I'm from Circleville. When I tell them yes the talk always turns to the pumpkin show & then I tell them I grow the giants, from there the conversation goes on for at least 15 more minutes.
Darryl Crosby can back me up on this when I say the weighoff is like a class reunion.
In other states they may look at you funny, In the Circleville area...We are GODS!!!....LOL

12/22/2009 7:06:59 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I was in the Mall of America once when from one floor up John Doucet yelled "Shannon". He recognized my Linus Van Pelt #20 Hat.

12/22/2009 7:59:54 AM

Circleville, Ohio

Shazzy - I get the same stuff.....my passion used to be powerlifting and I have people ask "how does one go from powerlifting to growing pumpkins?"

I really never have a good answer..........but I sure enjoy it.

12/22/2009 8:11:37 AM

Ontario, Canada.

I am asked often. How did you ever get into that?

There never really is one good reply for that question.

I just know that I Love this hobby.....its hard to explain.

12/22/2009 8:37:36 AM

Minnesota

I always tell them I grow giant pumpkins, and they look at me like "O'K, he's got a problem"

12/22/2009 9:27:58 AM

Cedar Lake, IN.

I started growing AGs because of my grandson. His mother and father are now divorced, and that's troubling him greatly. To see that smile on his face instead of tears rolling from his eyes, all because of a big pumpkin. Can you beleive it a pumpkin having that kind of power!!!
It's just a big pumpkin, right?

12/22/2009 9:55:43 AM

Same here..lol

12/22/2009 10:25:12 AM

norway , maine

if you have to explain ... they arent gonna understand

12/22/2009 10:48:23 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

When I call my folks to see how they are, and my dad ASKS if I'm going to grow another big pumpkin; I'm past point of no return. :)

I start out with I'm into 'extreme gardening' OR that I do 'competition growing'. That makes it a teensy bit easier to explain further about how I am so into those big orange things, heh. [if the words 'forklift' and 'harvest' aren't in the same sentence, you're not GROWING!]

12/22/2009 11:12:27 AM

San Luis Obispo, Ca.

Excellent!

12/22/2009 11:57:59 AM

[email protected]

Merry Christmas Everyone...even the "normal folk". It's OK to feel bad for them especially this time of year.

12/22/2009 4:06:57 PM

Joliet, IL

Giant pumpkin growers are the only normal humans, everyone else is screwed up."

i love it bryan. that's some good bumpersticker material there!!!!

12/22/2009 4:26:58 PM

Elmira, N,Y,

It always starts out " well It all started when"

12/22/2009 6:34:45 PM

Circleville ,OH.

Yes our class reunions are always during Pumpkin Show as most of our class is in town for it. Huff and I grew up watching all the pumpkins get bigger every year at the show and now we are the ones growing them bigger every year. At least no one from our class forgets us.

12/22/2009 8:57:29 PM

ordinary,VA

there is something really,really wrong with us :)

12/23/2009 8:47:28 AM

Rhode Island

growing and tending a giant pumpkin in your patch is second to none.at my age its even better than sex. less work to, plus i can still have a smoke afterwards --lol

in spite of all the setbacks, the hail, the cold springs,green houses up-greenhouses down, wind protection up-wind protection down, the hot humid summers, the bugs, the diseases, the critters, and those friggin nozy passers by_lol, i would not trade it for anything.some of my lifes best friends have been made since i got into this hobby twenty something years ago.

i will continue to strive for bigger and better until i no longer can do it.
aside from that ? im normal i guess???????????

lol pap

12/23/2009 9:15:54 AM

Johnston, R.I.

Dick if your normal I must be abbynormal.....imagine that..

12/23/2009 10:42:35 AM

canal winchester ohio

LOL@ Ed !!!
We're mutants. There's something wrong with us, something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us - we're punkin growers. But we're American punkin growers! We've been hefting punkins for 20 years! We're awesome! Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we weeded. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Stelts wants to have us hung. All we have to do is to be the great American punkin grower that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud.

12/23/2009 11:44:19 AM

Hanover,Ontario,Canada

Mutants....ugh, what talk is this???.....I'm with Pap.........keep growing and enjoy it.......watchamccallum

12/23/2009 12:22:50 PM

Joliet, IL

a one.. a two.... a one two three.... boom chucka lucka lucka boom chucka lucka lucka boom chucka lucka lucka boom!!!!!

and that's the fact jack!!!!!!!!!

12/23/2009 12:33:36 PM

Bloomington, IN

12/23/2009 5:00:51 PM

Bloomington, IN

thats my response, with a shrug and a grin. :)

12/23/2009 5:01:08 PM

Eastern Washington State

Mutants are more fun! Both AG's and AG growers are freaks of nature! But how can something so wrong with us feel so right?

12/23/2009 9:07:33 PM

Bethel Ohio

we are all struck with a passion...unexplainable as it may be,it is however a passion. A life without passion is a terrible thing in my opinion. So let's all just enjoy and pursue our passion and always come up smiling.

12/23/2009 10:30:53 PM

Joliet, IL

amen to that paul!!!!

12/23/2009 11:50:25 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Dear Santa, if it's not too late, I'd REAAAAALLLLY luv to get a forklift or front end loader... :)

12/24/2009 10:40:56 PM