Although Rebecca Estelle hated that pumpkins grew in her yard, she turned her frustration into something beautiful- making pumpkin treats and carving jack-o-lanterns for all of her neighbors. Once everyone left, all she had left was a handful of seeds that she decided she would save until planting time next year. When they ready to go home, she made sure each carried a jack-o-lantern, a bag of seeds for roasting, and a pumpkin treat. Everyone in the town came to Rebecca Estelle’s house. She places them in her front yard hoping that people will stop in for a treat as they drive by. She uses the remaining pumpkins in her yard to carve jack-o-lanterns. After spending hours baking pies, tarts, and bread, Rebecca Estelle is too tired to deliver anything. Rebecca decides she will give the pumpkins away, so she wheels the pumpkins into her house, so she can make them into treats. Despite her efforts to get rid of the pumpkins, Rebecca Estelle wakes up one fall morning to hundreds of pumpkins in her yard. I will ignore them, and they will die.” All spring and summer, she never looked out the front window or gland at in the direction of the vines when she was outside. Disgusted, Rebecca Estelle states, “I will not water those plants. When she goes over to inspect them, she realizes that they are pumpkins. One morning, while admiring the new sprouts in her garden, Rebecca Estelle noticed her cat playing in some big leaves growing at the edge of her yard.

Rebecca Estelle, having survived on various pumpkin dishes during her poor childhood, hates them so much that when a pumpkin accidentally falls into her yard, she shovels dirt over it, so she will not have to see or think about it again. Urn:oclc:795383162 Scandate 20110826073844 Scanner story Too Many Pumpkins shows readers how to take adversity and frustration and turn it into something wonderful. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:17:33 Boxid IA118904 Boxid_2 CH109601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed.

Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White