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Saturday, August 10, 2019
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North Shore Boyz
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Mill Bay, British Columbia
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In memory, fondness and pride in my father...he would love this pumpkin stuff. In the early 1970’s when I was a boy, my Dad grew a big pumpkin like the Saanich Fair has never seen. It must have been 150 lbs and we delivered it in the trunk of our 1952 Dodge 2 door coupe. Unfortunately for Dad, it had a small amount of rot on the bottom and was disqualified from competition and would have clearly been the winner.
My Dad taught me a lot of things and I think of him every day. One of the lessons in life he taught me, was how to turn $1 dollar into $2 dollars over time.
Well, I’m gonna gamble (invest) this old 1972 $1 dollar bill and try to increase its value by 5 to 800 times, by entering one of the pumpkins in the Saanich Fair in honour of my Dad, Norm Dixon. There are 2 special prizes that I’m gunning for. $100 for a 400-800 lb pumpkin and $500 for a pumpkin over 800 lbs.
Based on the growth of our slowest grower, we won’t make 800 lbs by the end of August, but we should have 2 fruit well over 400 lbs by then.
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