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Archive for June 20th, 2009

This could be the start of an ugly pumpkin uprising, but the seeds from all the pumpkins I gutted last year have taken root! There is a now a well established and quite large pumpkin vine growing in my back yard. They have sprouted from inside the compost pile and have spread out across the yard. I find this very exciting! It would be great to have my own pumpkin patch for Halloween this year. I’m not really sure how you go about raising pumpkins, but the bees seem to be all over the big orange flowers so I assume they’re handling the pollination process.

Since it’s coming out of the compost pile I shouldn’t have to worry too much about watering and fertilizing it. However, the temperatures have been going through the roof these past couple days so I will keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn’t start to wilt or anything.

At the current rate it could begin to cover the entire yard. I may be lighting pumpkins on fire from right inside the patch itself this year. The pumpkins I bought were all a pretty good size so who knows how big these will be. Of course this vine could just be taunting me and they could turn out to be the size of cherry tomatoes.

If anyone has some pumpkin raising advice I would be happy to listen.

It seems Father’s Day is starting to take on some ominous overtones these days. It was right before Father’s Day last year that I got hit by a car while riding my bike. History just about repeated itself last week when I almost got hit again by someone who wasn’t paying attention. But as of yesterday Fate stepped up her game and is really gunning for me.

While going out for lunch yesterday I narrowly escaped a massive car wreck when someone pulled out in front of us and completely blocked the lane. In some radical driving maneuvers we managed to go swerving by and avoided disaster. But that wasn’t all. On the drive home I got hit in the rear end while stopped at the light. No real damage was done, but now there’s a dent in my bumper and considering the way cars are made these days the whole damn thing is going to need to be replaced. I guess the first shot at me didn’t hit the mark so it was time to take another one.

We needed to go to the bike store this morning and I seriously didn’t want to go because it seems like I’m tempting fate. I had Donna drive just in case and while nothing happened I’m not leaving the house for the rest of the day. Hopefully some out of control car doesn’t come crashing into the living room and run me over.