Wednesday, September 23, 2009

It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown!!!




Back in June, during the last week of school all the kids got a tiny little pumpkin plant to take home, the kids were to take care of their plant, and bring a pumpkin back in September to the Family Barbecue. So my daughter cared for her plant all summer, the plant eventually took over the garden, but no pumpkins. One day we noticed a small pumpkin, but a few days later the thing had rotted??? WTF? so my daughter was a little sad, and eventually gave up on this beast of foilage that was slowy taking over the back yard. I was too busy to cut back the thing so we just let it grow, and grow, and grow.........



Tonight I headed out to the garden to get some carrots for dinner and something caught my eye between the garden fence and the fence around our yard, burried amongst weeds and giant pumpkin leaves..........



Could it be................




That is one big F**king pumpkin!!!! It weighs 40-50 lbs. How does something like that stay hidden? Anyways, my baby is kicking ass tomorrow in the pumpkin contest....

26 comments:

SurprisedMom said...

Sometimes, it's the best things that stay hidden until you need them. Congratulations to your daughter on her kick-a** pumpkin! Let us know how she did in the pumpkin contest!
Great photos by the way.

Kat said...

That is a HUGE pumpkin! Congrats to yourself and you daughter, I am sure she will win!

Irish Gumbo said...

Kee-rist, that is one big 'effin' pumpkin! If she doesn't win, the fix was on. Wow!

Vodka Logic said...

How awesome is that..

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Hope your daughter gets to take it to school.

Michele said...

What a great surprise. She'll be the hit of the class.

Liz Wilkey (a.k.a. A Mom on Spin) said...

And all I got was a rock. . .

Unknown said...

Uh, excuse me while I go call my daughter and tell her to check again on my grandson's pumpkin thing. There's hope yet.

Deb said...

-->That is a huge pumpkin! Your neighbors will have pumpkin-envy.
~deb
www.WebSavyMom.com

Mango Girl said...

What a wonderful prize from the garden!

Ron said...

You aren't kidding. That thing's a monster! You could make, like 20 pies with that thing.

Mama Dawg said...

That's friggen cool!

Jenni said...

it's as big as she is! love it!

unmitigated me said...

It's a Ninja-Pumpkin!

Unknown said...

Holy Moly! That's one big pumpkin!

I love The Great Pumpkin, Forget candy it's the best part about halloween

Jess said...

Jumpin Jesus on a Pogo Stick! (see, I knew I would be able to use that soon!) That is HUGE! Lay of the miracle grow! LMAO! That is awesome!!

Divine Chaos said...

Holy moley, that's one huge pumpkin! Hope she wins!!!

Chrisy said...

It's a beauty, that's for sure!

jerlyn said...

I think the Great Pumpkin secretly
brought it into the garden, cos
he hated to see the girl sad!

justsomethoughts... said...

size does matter. good luck. looks like a winner.

Michel said...

CRAP! you better save the pics. Someone is going to call fraud!!!

that is amazing!

Keely said...

Ninja pumpkins. Just one more frakkin' thing to worry about.

Mike said...

That IS a great pumpkin! Pies for months!

Lifeofkaylen said...

Whoa--that is awesome!!! What a nice surprise!!

James (SeattleDad) said...

Very Nice. Come on, you really didn't miss that sucker for all this time did you?

Casey said...

Holy crapoli, that thing is HUGE! If that's all the effort gardening takes, I think I might just ignore some produce next year. Hope she wins the contest, her pumpkin ROCKS!

Missy said...

Holy cow, that thing is massive. Good job!

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