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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 pumpkin cholo Bloomington, IN

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Day 43 measurements for the 1250:
CC: 103.75" , SS: 61" , EE: 55" , OTT: 216.75"
Estimated weight: 224 lbs.

Its slowed down some since I last measured on Friday. Then it was doing 7.6 lbs a day but then the temps started dipping into the 40's at night then barely reaching 70 in the day some days, so since Friday it has only been doing 4.25 lbs a day. Its supposed to warm back up this week so hopefully the gains will pick up a little. I need another 76 lbs to make my goal of 300 and theres 32 days till the weigh-off, which means it would have to average at least 2.4 lbs a day till then. Or it could just go heavy. :) Wishfull thinking I know, unfortunately there is more to suggest it might go light than heavy so I'll just hope for the best but expect the worst. On the plus side its starting to get an orange tinge to it. With its great shape if it gets really orange like some other 1250 offspring I might have a shot at the Howard Dill Award. Makes me glad the lobe deformity ended up on the bottom out of site. 'The cave' closed itself up a week ago so I can no longer see into the deformed area. Now I have to cross my fingers and hope nothing goes wrong as a result of the deformity.
 



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