more pictures and a story

my neighbors grandma likes neck pumpkins,she says they make the best pie. I grew some in the garden for her last year.She always told me stories of how when she was young her father would plant them in the corn field and they would harvest them while picking the corn, This spring she gave me all the seeds that she saved from last years neck pumpkins. On a slope across from the road from her house her grandson no till planted field corn, There were some patches where the corn did not come up,or may have been pulled out by a big flock of canadian geese that landed there,I took her seed,walked along the hillside with a hoe ,scratched a hole here and there,dropped in a few seeds ,and kicked dirt over it with my foot, Did nothing else till I harvested some yesterday. She is a happy lady,calling all her friends and relatives to come get a neck pumpkin! Several of her old friends stopped by yesterday. She said it was the best crop she has seen since she lived on that farm,and shes been there over 80 years,jokingly,she said and a man from nj grew them! She said it in front of her son in law,I dont know if he liked that comment or not... lol
The best part of all for me is that my daughter,who is 19 came with us yesterday. She helped me and took the pictures. Although she is not as interested in the country life as I am I think she got an idea of why I do like it and is starting to understand me a little better, I was talking with her yesterday,and I explained to her some men watch football,some play golf,this is what I love,its not work to me,I think she finally saw it yesterday and understood. See you all later ,,,gotta go !!!

I'm with you about growing things being more fun than tv, golf and other spectator sports. I once planted a 1 acre garden, mostly to have plenty of space for big pumpkins and everything else besides. The problem was, what to do with all the excess. It's neat that your 19 yr. old daughter helped you yesterday, that's priceless. Yesterday I visited with my son-in-law, he said if he was ever unemployed he'd go crazy if he couldn't be working on a project or improving something, he also told how they're preparing for coming political/economic turmoil.

Our daughter liked to scratch out the potatoes when she was young when I plowed them out. So did my wife. Hard to believe we ate all those potatoes. Hal

great pics & a good story.

Sure do like your "wagon". So how many seeds did you plant originally? Looks like a great harvest. I had a volunteer squash plant come up in my watermelon patch. I just let it grow and harvested 17 squash from that one plant this past weekend. By the way Larry, were "you" interested in the farm when you were 19?

AW! A man after my own heart. T shirt and Shorts. So much better than those ugly overalls that some people wear.
Walt

Interested in the farm at 19? We sold the dairy cows when I was 12, and when I was 19, my mom caught dad and I talking about getting back in the business- she threatened to divorce Dad and disown me on the spot, if we ever uttered another word on that subject.

And that, as they say, was that!

I like to wear shorts in the summer when working, too- but had to rescue a goat who was caught between two sapplings with blackberry vines around them this weekend- my legs look like raw hamburger right now, kind of wish I'd had the ole Can't Bust Ems on. . .

Sounds good to me, do like to watch many sports, dont do golf, like to fish and hunt a little, but always like working around the place, growing something, adding on something, honeydo list, great that daughter was with you

Larry,
That's a "pretty handy dandy 3pt. punkin carrier" you got there. Save the good ones and turn the culls into compost material with the same machine! LOL.
Loren

larry@stinescorner,
Great pics, even greater story!

Our daughter, now 23 and married, is starting to long for a home in the country as well as yearning for space to plant a garden. She said she hated it when I made her help work in the garden... and she is shocked that she now wants to plant one.