Update: Something is rotten in the state of Great Pumkin Land
As month four of the Great Pumpkin Experiment begins, TGP appears to have taken a turn for the worse.
After being moved to the back yard (free from the clutches of well-meaning spouses who think TGP belongs in the garbage bin), the big storms of late '08 and their accompanying winds brought Great Pumpkin to its knees. Well, if pumkins had knees, anyway, that's where it'd be.
At present it has fallen off the bench where it was living and is now at the mercy of rowdy overlords Duncan and Stella. A cursory inspection shows rot starting to set in. Also, it's not so much round anymore as it is round-esque. If we keep alternating between freezing and tropical up here in NW Reno, I don't give TGP more than a couple more weeks.
Reno blogger James Ball was born in 1973 and raised in North Georgia, attending the University of Georgia in Athens. He and his wife, Pam, moved to Lake Tahoe in 1995, eventually settling in Reno in the early 2000s. They live in Northwest Reno with their two boys, Thomas and Alex. James is a web editor at the Reno Gazette-Journal.
