our first pumpkin has arrived

and you're definitely outgrowing your patch

look

what i found hiding amongst the big leaves





very exciting to return to. i fear that our little, or rather not so little, pumpkin patch is getting mildly ravaged by so-called "pests", i evicted a good number of snails, and there is definitely some white flies...tomorrow i will have to find out what the other Deep Enders and members of the Giant Kingdom committee (i.e. David, Ellen, Gerardo, and Stefani) think i should do to improve the health of our beautiful big baby

i also discovered, you, my dear giant pumpkins, are outgrowing the sweet little patch we have built for you, i hope this doesn't become a problem




i foresee great things ahead

this reminds me of when we were in town and we looked down this alley at this kid who had a stick and bottle and seemed thrilled to be playing, pick the bottle up with the stick. we all had a sense of something smaller and bigger at the same time.