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Little-TON - Colorado

What iZ your most favorite time of this hobby?

As I was driving down the street in my 3.4 Ton Dodge Cummins Diesle.....I waZ overcome by a moment.....

A moment that when I looked into my review mirror....and saw nothing but BIG @ss pumpkin starting at me.....I love the part of parading the personel best around town and seeing the lookZ on driverZ faces when they get a good look at the monster in my pickem up truck.....ItZ a good feeling.......

WhatZ your superbowl of pumpkineering?

2/4/2011 4:01:23 PM

Adams County

watching all the people drive by the house and take pictures of the biggest jack o lanternes they have ever seen..

2/4/2011 4:15:27 PM

Sevierville,tn

The people who stop you and ask Did you grow that? The State Trooper That pulls you over and ask is that what I think It is???

2/4/2011 6:30:50 PM

West Sacramento Ca.

Mine's gotta be rowing my pumpkin in the elk grove giant pumpkin regatta.Win or lose it is great fun and i hope more people row this year.I also love the kids who come by to see and carve my pumpkins at Halloween.

2/4/2011 6:32:57 PM

Massachusetts

gotta be the kids faces when they see that its a real pumpkin!

2/4/2011 7:59:28 PM

Sevierville,tn

Yeah the kids...at school I work at we always take ours there and the kids love it and ask real questions!

2/4/2011 8:25:59 PM

Mass

People taking pictures on the highway, and people stopping here and there, asking OMG is that real?

2/4/2011 8:52:40 PM

Central Ca

The way kids faces light up when they see em'.

2/5/2011 12:34:18 AM

Honesdale Pa USA

Kids and most people's reactions in general. But mainly going to the patch each day and working with these beasts! Coming back from a weeks vacation and seeing a pumpkin 150 pounds bigger than you left it. Finding a stem split or a hundred other problems that can happen with an AG and catching it in time to save the plant or pumpkin. There are very few people who aren't amazed by these giants whether they admit it or not. Above all for me is shooting the s&!t with other growers at the weigh-offs. The superbowl is one day,the pumpkineer superbowl is pretty much all year. How can you beat that? Then again I do tend to ramble at 2:15 in the morning!

2/5/2011 2:16:36 AM

Littleton, Colorado

Turning a solemn face into a bright smile! Or even better--a frowning face as you're going down the road. I'm with you Gary that it is a blast to be driving down the road with a really decent pumpkin in the back of a full size pickup bed & just seeing the reactions of people on the road! My second favorite would be the look on joe's face and yours when I pulled in at Nick's weighoff last October with my surprise! I deserve to have you do it to me this year!!!
My first and foremost goal in growing giant pumpkins is and always has been--to put smiles on people's faces. Including my own. If I can't smile at the end of the season, regardless of how I've done, then it's time to take a year off!
Barry

2/5/2011 3:35:12 AM

Johnston, R.I.

The attention they get carved on the porch.........

2/5/2011 5:22:49 AM

Western PA

Taping them and discovering that it is putting on 30-40 pounds a day is very exciting. A close second would be seeing peoples reactions while trailering one to a weigh off.
I only wish my wife was not afraid to tow the trailer, so I could watch all the jaws drop, LOL !!

2/5/2011 8:36:17 AM

East Jordan, MI

The whole entire year from start to finish was like being at amusement park when I was 12. EXCITING from start to finish! But the creme de la creme was seeing the faces on the kids when they got close enough to touch it during Pumpkin Show -- total awe. Talk about moving! That was THE moment for me!

2/5/2011 9:04:42 AM

Littleton, Colo

Two yearz ago, after the Jareds' weigh off, mozt everybody waz gone except a small group of growerz loading up when two elderly women showed up to see the pumpkins...they were easily in their 80s...they heard about the weigh off on the radio but they were late...Cojoe had his State Record 1135 in the back of his truck and my 1019 was still on the ground...one lady stood and asked questions to the growers while the other walked up to the 1135 & 1019...she was crying and I asked her if she was ok?...she told me something I'll never forget..as she wiped away tears, she told me how her father farmed all of his life and would have loved to see something like this..thatz my Superbowl !

2/5/2011 11:47:09 AM

Pocatello ([email protected])

Yes, watching people's reaction while you're driving down the road is great, the only thing better is having it go heavier than you were expecting.

2/5/2011 12:59:28 PM

Muddy Waters

Hearing the tires skid on the street & the sound of Crashing Metal & hearing OH S**T is that a Pumpkin.Also the people at weigh-offs look when you pull up last, almost to late to enter,with the obvious winner.

2/5/2011 1:24:41 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Two that are tied, I guess!!! Drivin down the road and seein folks hanging outside of the car they are in takin pictures...is way KUL!!! The kid's reactions has to be #1 tho!!! The incredible folks in Indiana, each year, carve open a GIANT (cut out the topside), and then see how many lil ones they can stuff inside !!! It IS an INCREDIBLE site, so many giggles, and laughter (kids & parents) Kids gigglin about slimey toes,(no shoes or socks allowed inside the pkn) and parents just lovin the smiles on their kids faces!!!!!! Way KUL!!! Peace, Wayne

2/6/2011 3:16:58 AM

Johnston, Iowa

In general sharing this hobby with my family. Other than that, the anticipation just before the pumpkin gets weighed is a rush!

2/6/2011 11:50:45 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

The NJ state trooper asking if the 923 was real or not over the bull horn while we cruised down the highway at 70 mph.

Almost causing multiple accidents on the ramps approaching the Lincoln tunnel in Manhattan while cars battled for position to see and photo the 689.

Working the plants usually barefoot between mid June and late July.

When other growers plant my seeds and have success.

The pride in my 5 year old neice's voice when she tells anyone all about "Uncle Jimmy's Pumpkins."

2/8/2011 1:40:00 PM