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Bristol R.I. USA

Lately I've been thinking of what this years weigh offs will bring. I have what is known as The Orange Fever. Walking out to the patch to check weekly measurments and seeing the fruits skin turn to a ruddy cracked texture. The leaves are working overtime and are showing their age. I look at the work that has gone into the pumpkin from filing the seeds to seeing a big fruit. All the winter deposits of coffee grounds. The compost turning and my friends in the worm farm. Constant emails,calls and texts to the wisemen. Plenty of patch prep and applications of kelp. Set up and take down of the cloches. Fat Friday and a trip to Freriches All for the pumpkins trip through the Orange Gateway. Maybe Pap will give my route 95 Posting to the new rookie. Lol! I cant wait for the sand bagging to be confirmed or dismissed! Lol! Good luck to all. After pumpkin season Kennytheheat will be in a tree stand hoping for another monster. I can feel the excitment building and cant wait. Anyone else feel this way?

8/17/2010 6:29:01 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

....isn't it still mid-August?

8/17/2010 6:34:26 PM

Maine

I don't think it's just you! (this is our first year) last night my granddaughter dreamt it was the size of a tennis ball, and I dreamt it rotted overnight......we're only at 259, don't expect a prize, but BOY!!! we're getting obsessed.....I'm just hoping it doesn't pop off of the vine....no matter how often we moved it, it went back, so we're resorting to "shimming" the vine ever higher....GOOD LUCK!

8/17/2010 6:57:49 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

you need an orange pumpkin to have true orange fever. do you have an orange pumpkin kenny!

8/17/2010 7:35:57 PM

British Columbia, Canada

Well, I lost my one and only pumpkin today, so...I don't really have to worry about weigh-offs.

8/17/2010 7:39:18 PM

British Columbia, Canada

Plus, I don't feel much excitement...

8/17/2010 8:24:24 PM

Buffalo, New York

the only excitement here is watching my cover crop grow.

8/17/2010 8:42:56 PM

Pataskala,OH

Feels like November here already doing soil prep.

8/17/2010 8:49:38 PM

New York

Bunch of nay-sayers, the lot of ya...

8/17/2010 8:57:50 PM

Redmond, Washington; U.S.A.

30+ a day here. Green and orange and | white wheel.

8/17/2010 9:26:58 PM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

All I'm feeling is anxiety, hoping and waiting that things will work out as planned. Tonight when I came home from work, my best tomato plant blew over onto my 2nd best and I can't tell which is which. Excited, no, and don't get me started on pumpkins.

8/17/2010 10:20:00 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I miss the excitement, the weeding, the groping my pumpkin (holding a tape of course), feeding the skeeters...

Hope everyone that has one still going, that you get it landed for a PB.

8/17/2010 10:54:13 PM

3 acre corner in Whittaker,Mi USA ([email protected])

Yea kenny...every morning as I head home from work I'm in prayer mode praying for no splits or cracks and I've lucked out so far. I tell myself I'm not gonna tape em every morning...but I do anyway. Need em to hang on with the gains for another 30 days hopefully, even if their small ill take em. I look at all that green and think of how that all came from 1 seed. My goal is 5 bills this year and I'm gettin close! On top of it all its almost football and hunting season...definitly feeling the excitement my friend!

8/17/2010 11:20:04 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Hard to believe all of this negativity!!! One major weigh-off so far...Iowa Fair sets new record!!!!!! Grow OB Grow!!!, You too MG!!! Peace, Wayne
PS Tell em Julian!!! LOL!!! Best of the best to awl!!!

8/18/2010 1:16:40 AM

Colorado Springs.Co

I'm with the down and out crowd, I still have one growing but will be an observer this year. I still want to see some ass whooping from the growers having good years and can't wait for the results.

8/18/2010 1:57:46 AM

Frankfort Oh

Sence I dont have any pumpkins yet ,I`m ready to go hunting! - ok correction a have one the size of a softball-but did I say I`m ready to go hunting yet?

8/18/2010 8:52:25 AM

Frankfort Oh

lol,andy h

8/18/2010 8:54:07 AM

Il

Rookie season, and one more reason to LOVE the FALL!!!!!!!!!

Football, Hunting and Pumpkin Harvest WO what a sport, and it is definetly a SPORT!!!!!!!!!!

8/18/2010 10:25:30 AM

Colorado

Kenny,I feel the excitment.You never know what youve got till the tailgate drops(along with your competitors)Good luck to everyone at the scales

8/18/2010 2:45:40 PM

Pembroke, Ma

I'm excited, and very nervous....

8/18/2010 8:58:17 PM

Maine

Glad I'm not the only one who worries while away from the baby.....and not the only one who swears I won't measure for a week...and then goes down every evening. You all are making me feel better, even if I am obsessive!!

8/19/2010 6:10:32 PM