Alphabe Thursday D is for ......

I am linking up for the letter D to Jenny and all the others, for Alphabe Thursday, round two......http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com Come join us!

D is for determination, disappointment and discovery...In that order. I am talking about my pumpkin patch...I am a gardener and I have a green thumb. What I want to grow, grows until the great pumpkin fiasco. This has been my first year to garden in Utah and it was beyond my expectations. Everything except my pumpkins did well. I became determined....I had planted three plants and they grew like crazy...They grew so much that they even made their way through the fence and into the neighbors yard. I was thrilled. They started getting big yellow blooms and I was envisioning the pumpkins we would share with everyone for Halloween...I watched the little green bulbous pumpkins form. They would get to be about the size of a radish and then they would disappear. It happened over and over....I watered, I composted, I held back water, I checked with a magnifying glass for bugs. I became obsessed. I was determined to see something orange and round growing from those vines. It wasnt happening, I was a gardening failure. Maybe pumpkins dont grow in Utah? So I thought, until I drove by a house with the elusive pumpkins growing everywhere in someone's front yard. I was disappointed and dismayed.
Last week on my day off, the whole family was out in the backyard enjoying the sunshine....By family, I mean myself, the husband and the pets. Life was good. I saw a rustling in the pumpkin vines and it all came to me.....








I have a pet bunny, Donalds, that runs around in the backyard...You know, where the garden is. He doesnt eat anything else, so I assumed he just had enough grass to fill his little belly. Apparently he has a fondness for little green pumpkins the size of radishes.....He is a happy bunny and I am happy that my green thumb is still intact. I may not plan on orange pumpkins next year. Who needs the stress?