Monday, October 04, 2004
22lbs of Melon
It was a dark and stormy night, and the waves were as big as houses... Ok there were no waves since I don't live by the sea. It was basically pretty windy out there last night and my dad has the maddest vegetable garden in the world. He likes to grow melons, huge shark's fin melons.
A couple of years ago, he grew so many green plants that it actually covered the greenhouse - making the greenhouse actually green. But I digress. It was a stormy night last night and the wind was blowing hard, and the force of it blew down one of my dad's prize melons. A whopping 22 pound one - I think it might be the largest one that he has grown. I shudder to think how long it will take us to eat it. I mean last year, he grew something like a hundred of those things. Ok, not all of them were this hefty, but even giving half of them to friends and family, there were about another fifty to eat and my dad won't sell them. Hmm... how many ways can you cook melon that is not that sweet? Boil it, bake it, fry it, make it into soup?
A couple of years ago, he grew so many green plants that it actually covered the greenhouse - making the greenhouse actually green. But I digress. It was a stormy night last night and the wind was blowing hard, and the force of it blew down one of my dad's prize melons. A whopping 22 pound one - I think it might be the largest one that he has grown. I shudder to think how long it will take us to eat it. I mean last year, he grew something like a hundred of those things. Ok, not all of them were this hefty, but even giving half of them to friends and family, there were about another fifty to eat and my dad won't sell them. Hmm... how many ways can you cook melon that is not that sweet? Boil it, bake it, fry it, make it into soup?
