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 notice some resemblence as to what is going on in this country right now. Hmmmm….
Anywho, of course you know that I know exactly where you are talking about. And I’ve only been to the original, I mean the first. I mean the… Oh forget it!
Just some kind of coincidence that one is red and one is blue, right?
7.8% of all sales are the direct result of confusion. I’m pretty sure that they teach this in econ programs at UCLA but hide it from the rest of us simply because they don’t want us to be frightened when we realize how fragile is our economy.
Holly – I was going to suggest that you eventually just become a reporter. So much more pleasant than normal news. But then I realized that it made more sense for you to eventually just subcontract your local paper to write portions of your blog – the texas daily news soon to be a division of junecleavernirvana.
and does anyone in their right mind actually buy pumpkins from the patch either one?? I mean seriously people save your $20 and goto walmart…
What did you make for dinner??
Oh my–I think this will end up back in court!
Your pics rock…If you had your own pumpkin patch you would have no trouble getting the crowds in.
Though they might run off with one of your signs.
I love the cute little pumpkin drawings ๐
I love Holly’s animated life!!!
Did the dueling patches go at it like this???
http://inhabitatiodei.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/ultimate-church-sign-battle/
Maybe the Original Pumpkin patch should move closer to the next town over? Perhaps the pumpkin patch is in a pickle!
I love reading your illustrations. So the Tale of Two Pumpkin Patches/Villages/Parks will resume again next year? Can’t wait to see the outcome of this LOL
HEE-Larious!