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The MelonMan grows cantaloupe
And of course it's no average sized cantaloupe. We get a visit from our webmaster and a picture of a melon grown in Alaska.
By Bob Dwyer
August 9, 2002
 Tina and Nitro display our first cantaloupe of the year. This is a Tennessee Old Fashion variety and weighed in at a hefty 32.5 pounds!.......... Yes it was delicious!
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 Bill Palmer and Bryan Palmer, owners of Jarvis Motor Company in Sikeston, enjoyed a 30 pound cantaloupe off this same vine.
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 Our friend and webmaster Mark Herring visited over the weekend to check out this years progress.
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 It's HOT work keeping all of the cull melons picked from our field during the dog days of summer.
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 R.I.P.
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 Scott Robb, owner of Colony Greenhouse in Palmer, Alaska, sent us this impressive picture of his giant watermelon. It's growing in a pot inside a greenhouse and is huge!!! Good luck Scott!
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 Our webmaster, Mark Herring, and myself traveled to St. Louis to see this steam engine, Frisco 1522, as it makes one of it's last public steaming runs. Mark's great-grandfather was an engineer for Frisco and piloted 1522's sister engine, 1524 in the 1920s. Here's a picture of Mark sitting at the engineer's window of 1522. |
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