Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 6 Entries. Thursday, January 1 View Page Tweedledee - My favorite pumpkin from 2025. 477 pounds of leopard orange perfection. Grown on the 1366 Zunino with two other fruit on the same plant... Thursday, January 1 View Page Tweedledum - Tweedledee's twin, the 566 Zunino. A little heavier but not as symmetrical. Tweedledum was selfed on the 1366 Zunino and graced my front yard until early January... Friday, January 30 View Page Chopped! - I decided to put the old girl out of her misery today. It would be undignified and too odiferous to let her just melt into a pond of bubbly soup - like an orange Wicked Witch of the West. She was remarkably well preserved for her age with only a few soft spots, mainly around the stem. Hakuna Matata mi lady - you will be reborn... Friday, January 30 View Page The Red Badge of Courage - Soft rot spot on the bottom produced a bright red stain in the adjoining flesh. I bleed for my pumpkins. I've never had one bleed for me... Saturday, February 28 View Page It's a Beautiful Day - The poppies are starting to flash red and orange, birds are singing and it's 76 degrees in the shade. The buds are swelling and my head is bulging with pumpkin dreams... Tuesday, March 17 View Page Bipolar Disorder - The poppies are rioting in the front patch, and we are just starting a heat wave that will bring us into the low nineties for the rest of the week. It's hard to believe the stories of blizzards back east. Seems our weather is getting as bipolar as our political system. That's why I grow giant pumpkins. They never talk politics - although they do bitch about the weather all the time...