I was on my way to the store today to buy some more California Plums...they are so big and so sweet...great taste, I have told all my friends to go to store and buy some..Thank you, California...for plums so large they are the size of a baseball, for the lovely juice that is so sweet and runs down your face when you bite into them...we just love them ! (And I have instructed Benny to save me the seeds, I want to take them to the greenhouse and see what I can do to start me this variety.)You rarely find a good plum in the store any more. Anyway, I always have to pass the farmer's fruit stand on my way to the store...in fact, we have two of them, right across from each other, but I am loyal to Taste of Texas, they were here for years and the other is just new. Outside, in several large piles, and on wooden stands, they stand alone, they beckon to me..those beautiful, orange pumpkins ! No Jack-o-Lantern for me....I want pumpkin pie...there is nothing better than fresh pumpkin pie. And the seeds will be baked and salted, so there will be more fiber in our diet..LOL...I go from one stack to the other, trying to decide which one I want...it must be very orange...the stem needs to be dry...I checked out the bottom, no soft spots, just some mud from where it sat in the field...big enough for me to lift into the back of the pick-up. Yes, it was just perfect, so I paid for it, as well as buying tomatoes, onions, and checking out all the flowers there. They know me, I have to see every new item in the store when I come down, they are my friends, and they put up with all my shenanagins.Sometimes, Donald even gives me free plants, he will laugh and say they are close to dying, so take them home and see what I can do with them, and we laugh. I have sat the pumpkin on a table in front of my new barn building....it looks so fallish.....it will keep till I am ready to use it...and I visualize to myself cutting it open, pulling out the strings, and seeds, steaming it, paring off the rind, then the eggs,milk,sugar, spices, and mixing it all up together....I am dreaming of Pumpkin Pie...Country Style !