Sunday, November 22, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Girls Discover Unequaled Joy At Pumpkin Patch


The moral of this story is clearly for us all to hold onto that one thing in life that provides us unparalleled joy. It could be something as silly as pumpkin spice everything from the local pumpkin farm, or those red cup holiday beverages from Starbucks. Point is, life's just a little bit more joyful when we're able to retain a bit of our childlike wonder. 

For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this thread about the crude king of satire, Skweezy Jibbs.

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Text - libraford While out on my adventures the other day, I stopped at the farmers market to get some of their exceptional peach cider and a group of four college age girls all got out of an SUV, dressed somewhat identically (white face mask, gray or white top, dark bottoms, uggs) and headed up to the barn. One of them shouted 'PUMPKIN' and pointed to one of the 90lb pumpkins they had out front and all of them ran to see it up close, taking turns with their phones to get a selfie each. They wer

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Text - It is entirely possible that this was their first time visiting a farm. So I got my gallon of cider, some honey, and some fudge and those girls were in the line, each with a pumpkin held about bely height like they were six months pregnant with it. Wel. sort of. Three of them were in line like that and the fourth of them ran up with a package of fudge. "Ladies look! Pumpkin Spice Fudge!" "Oh my god where??" So two of them went back to the fudge and got more fudge, got back in line. Then a

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Text - "I didnt think you could DO that!" "Where??? "Girls, we need a cart!" This happened ad hominem until I think they had every single pumpkin spice item in the barn: soap, candies, taffy, cakes, breads, mixes. it filled a cart and was easily $300 worth of pumpkin spice stuff plus their pumpkins and they were so excited to have it all. It was treasure. It was a bounty. They had hunted well and their stores would be stocked for the winter.

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Text - And on the one hand I'm rolling my eyes because pumpkin spice is just. cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. But on the other hand. they were so excited. Like they were so excited to see pumpkins in a place that grows pumpkins and not at a grocery store and I suppose the takeaway is: May you find unequaled joy in something as simple as a pumpkin in a place where pumpkins grow. 4,707 notes A

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