Comments on: Halloween Tradition: Pumpkin Races http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/goldenboy.html A dad's eye view of baby and toddler stuff Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:34:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Heidi http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/goldenboy.html/comment-page-1#comment-36289 Heidi Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:18:05 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=4418#comment-36289 Oh, anastasiav, I just laughed my butt off. Reminds me of being a kid and having my great-grandmother tell me not to stand in front of the microwave because the radiation would stunt my growth. I'm only 5'4 now, I wonder if its coincidence, or the radiation! Although, maybe the pumpkin died when you put him by the trash because he felt like you gave up on him! Just kidding...I'm glad you got rid of that microwave! Oh, anastasiav, I just laughed my butt off. Reminds me of being a kid and having my great-grandmother tell me not to stand in front of the microwave because the radiation would stunt my growth. I’m only 5′4 now, I wonder if its coincidence, or the radiation!

Although, maybe the pumpkin died when you put him by the trash because he felt like you gave up on him! Just kidding…I’m glad you got rid of that microwave!

]]> By: anastasiav http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/goldenboy.html/comment-page-1#comment-35397 anastasiav Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:40:20 +0000 http://www.thingamababy.com/?p=4418#comment-35397 When I was just out of college, I lived in a tiny apartment, and picked up a giant, virtually antique microwave at Goodwill. (It has a dial instead of buttons, if that gives you a hint to its age.) That October, my grandparents gave me a pumpkin from their farm, which I arranged decoratively on top of the microwave. Where it stayed, sound and ripe, for nearly two and a half years. When it came time to move, I gingerly took this ancient pumpkin and set it next to the trash. Within 24 hours it had fallen apart like Dorian Grey ... a shriveled, brown husk of its former lovely self. With some horror, we took the microwave to the dump the next day, wondering what mysterious rays it had been emitting to preserve the pumpkin for such an unnaturally long time.... When I was just out of college, I lived in a tiny apartment, and picked up a giant, virtually antique microwave at Goodwill. (It has a dial instead of buttons, if that gives you a hint to its age.) That October, my grandparents gave me a pumpkin from their farm, which I arranged decoratively on top of the microwave. Where it stayed, sound and ripe, for nearly two and a half years.

When it came time to move, I gingerly took this ancient pumpkin and set it next to the trash. Within 24 hours it had fallen apart like Dorian Grey … a shriveled, brown husk of its former lovely self.

With some horror, we took the microwave to the dump the next day, wondering what mysterious rays it had been emitting to preserve the pumpkin for such an unnaturally long time….

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