Nit Wits #28: Pumpkin Patch Oct-16-2006
Gourdly-Growing & Repair by Chris Dunmire
I've got it bad this year. Pumpkinitis.
It's a condition where the mind is obsessively obsessed with
pumpkins and gourds. I think I picked it up when I bought a
bag of those teeny table-top gourds from Sams Club. This was
the first time in my life that I've brought those into my home.
There were at least a dozen in the bag and they ended up spread
all over my kitchen, dining- and living-rooms. White ones,
orange ones, green and brownly-orange striped ones.
Every pumpkin nationality was represented in that white mesh
Sams bag. I gave many of them away to friends as they walked
out my front door. "What's this?" they'd ask. "A
gourdly gift,"
I'd respond. But some still lurk. I'm waiting for them to give
me a sign that they're going bad. Do gourds grow mold? Or do
they just grow fonder?
And then there was the full-size pumpkin I bought for a fall-themed
party last month. It's been sitting on my front porch for several
weeks and I'm wondering if it will make it until "that
big day" (Halloween). We didn't have pumpkins in my house
when I was growing up. It was a gourd-free zone. I think I'm
making up for lost time.
This is where the Nit Wits Pumpkin Patch comes in. One would
think those
"Mirecle Labs" patch people made it just for this
condition, this Pumpkinitis I have, despite its play on words
depicting what else — a Pumpkin Patch! Linus would be absolutely
thrilled at the Great Pumpkin potential (poor kid). Or maybe,
it's for the pumpkin itself when people mishap in carving those
toothy Jack-O-Lantern grins. In every pumpkin carving 101 repair
kit there should exist a pumpkin patch or three.
I promise that this Pumpkinitis won't deter my creativity.
I will blame it for my obsession with pumpkins in many Creative
Slush entries this month, however. I will make it through this
orangey month of October... but not without showing you more
pumpkins. I've come across many on my fabulous fall journey.
I can't imagine life without them. •
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