The story behind the pumpkin to the left

I will say that this will be another one of those cool stories that you remember. This pumpkin has been in my garden for the whole summer and was entered in the Stillwater fair. This was grown by Caled, my oldest brother. It started off as a small seed, and started it's journey in Caleb's condo, and grew to be a 500 pound pumpkin. Every day it gained at least a pound. Finally the day dawned that we were to get the pumpkin and put it in the trailer that my brother would rent. My neighbor Don offered for us to use his tractor to get the pumpkin onto the trailer, so he was there in the garden when we noticed the the trailer's width was too small. That was a big 'bump' in the road. We decided that we could get it in at an odd maneuver that Don's tractor scoop wouldn't do. Don offered for us to use his pickup truck, only to find that his son was to use it in an event that he had thought had been canceled. Drat! Then it dawned on us that our neighbor's had a bobcat with forks on it, and we could try to maneuver it onto the trailer and maybe, just maybe it would fit. By now it was dark as Mr. B. drove his bobcat up our driveway. Caleb used this rope that looked like it could snap at any time to harness the pumpkin and get it onto a pallet. We decided the pumpkin wouldn't fit at all in the trailer, and sure enough Mr. B. was driving up yet again with a snowmobile trailer for us to put the pumpkin on. In the end Caleb got a big pumpkin, but it was in no comparison to the world record winning 1,800 pound pumpkin that was brought to the competition, oh well.

Allyssa