Jamie recently had his Rocky Mountain Giant Vegetable Growers Group Christmas breakfast. He looks forward to their socials and is very secretive about what happens there.
“So, how was your meeting today?”
“Good.”
“
Did anything exciting happen?”
“No.”
It’s like talking to a teenager.
He did, however come home with a nice token from the day–a gift box filled with homemade toffee and fudge.
“Who is Annmarie?”
“She’s one of the growers.”
I paused to contemplate this information. The giant pumpkin growing community is 98 percent male and some of the female growers I’ve seen on TV have been a bit on the sketchy side. Case in point: the sordid case of giant pumpkin grower Debra Sundstrom who murdered her husband and they found his body three years later moldering inside a barrel 25 paces from the back door of their old farmhouse.
You can’t make this stuff up.
“So, this Annmarie was so thoughtful that she brought holidays treats to everyone in the grower’s group? Isn’t that nice.”
Grunt.
“So, did any of the male growers bring something to share?”
“We bring seeds. And we share them. That is what we do.”
Here’s for hoping Annmarie brings a touch of class and not craziness to them all.
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