Another year, yet another pumpkin season gone by. Between the record-breaking heat, Jamie’s back-breaking work schedule and sloooow pumpkin growth, our hearts just weren’t into it.
Nonetheless, Jamie was ecstatic when he saw this tweet from a woman who was in my session at the Governor’s Tourism Conference. Yep, I mentioned The Pumpkin Man and the Marriage Ref.
Nice to know she was impressed (or not?)
Though the big Jared’s Nursery weigh-off was a few weeks ago, we have always taken the kids’ pumpkin to our local harvest festival.When we arrived, they had a bigger turnout than I’ve ever seen. But then the rain came. And kept coming.
We were all pretty moody so sought shelter stuffing our faces at the new Fuzzy’s Taco Shop. The rain still hadn’t let up so they did the weigh-off in the rain. Because we’re hearty pumpkin growers, right?
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| 3rd place ribbon! |
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| The winners |
Bill Orchard is one of the great advocates for our community garden and is always very kind to us when we arrive. Overly kind. In fact, he treats that husband of mine like a celebrity. So, I wasn’t surprised about the article he posted. Jamie’s favorite part?
Infamous Giant Pumpkin grower Jamie Johnson was available to sign autographs and give tips to rookie growers. His kids Bode and Hadley took the third prize award. Jamie recently entered his 837-pound giant in Jared’s Giant Pumpkin contest and finished in fourth place.
Sign autographs? Give tips?
I suspect Bill is going to become his agent for the 2013 season.
I'm a Canadian-born mom of two, former Denver Post columnist, family travel writer, editor of MileHighMamas.com and 9News contributor. Expert on all things Utah, Denver, family and travel. Lover of laughter and life. Happily married to a man obsessed with growing The Great Pumpkin. 