Once upon a time not far from Holly’s house in a popular suburb of one of the country’s largest cities was a pumpkin patch. And by pumpkin patch Holly means a large picturesque field where pumpkins are trucked in and laid in neat rows.
Holly and her family visited and enjoyed the pumpkin patch very much. They looked forward to the following fall so that they could visit again.
The next year Holly was surprised to see the WHOLE field full of pumpkins. She couldn’t wait to go visit the super-sized pumpkin patch.
Hey, wait!
It wasn’t just one pumpkin patch. It was now
two.
Practically identical pumpkin patches sitting right next to each other.
Holly wasn’t the only one that noticed the phenomenon.
The pumpkin patches noticed
each other.
Soon each patch had new signs:
And then some more signs:
At this point some legal action took place that Holly is too tired to review and report back to you. She assumes it involved lawyers, judges and a whole bunch of pumpkin patch proceeds.
She would also like to make the following legal disclaimer: Holly has no further understanding of this case then what is obvious to the general public while driving a minivan past the patches at no more than 50 mph. Nothing drawn in marker should be construed as fact, opinion or slander.
Once the case was settled, things settled down a bit at the patches.
One of the patches received a new name!
And so it went for a few pumpkin seasons. The Patch and Village coexisted in a civil manner.
As civil as two fighting children required to sit next to each other.
Then a new sign appeared
this fall on the patch formally known as Village:
It appeared they had changed their name to Park.
Why Park?
Holly thinks that it might have something to do with the fact that when you drive from town toward the Patch, you cannot tell that there are two separate pumpkin entities. All you are looking for is pumpkins and a place to park:
That Pumpkin Park is so sneaky it is downright scary.
I always love your visual aids.
Next step the sign will say “Pumpkin Park, child molester free zone” with a pic of a bad guy in a circle and a line crossing though it.
LOL!!!!! Really–have you published this stuff??I mean maybe you need to start a Holly’s House cartoon or something! It is fantastic!!
I’m so glad that Karl Rove found a new job with the Pumpkin Park!
Love the illustrations!
That is the cleverest pumpkin patch I have ever seen. We have a pumpkin patch here embroiled in a bitter court case. When did pumpkins get so litigious?
Only you Holly. only you could take this and make it blog worthy fabulously funny and worth reading.
Love the illustrations!
That is awesome!! So funny….and great illustrations!!
That is one of the most annoying things about this town–it is just insane!
OMG! That is just too fantastic! And I love the
minivan, too.
Texas Holly, I love you!
Texas Holly, I love your blog.
Texas Holly, I am not a stalker.
I promise.
Really.
And btw, thank you for the fab markers Texas Holly!!
Change names? Now that is one trick that isn’t such a treat to us creatures of habit. First, competing pumpkin patches. Then, name changes. Who knows what it will be next. A corn maze? A bat cave? ๐
Love the pics as usual. Hope you had tons of fun. We haven’t been yet… Friday afternoon is the day for us. Think I’m a little stupid for waiting until the actual day of Halloween or what?
So glad to see you at GNO last night! Fun chatting with you real time.
Happy Halloween!
jyl, Mommy Gossip โGNO