Here we are at the pumpkin lot in Burlingame, CA. We have been here for six days and are keeping pretty busy. The really hard work is pretty much done. One of the pictures shows a big box full of pumpkins on a wooden pallet. When we got here, there were twenty-five of these huge things just waiting for us to empty and spread around. The best part was that they have to be unloaded one at a time. You don't want to bruise the product. Giving a rough guess, I think that there were originally over 500 pumpkins. Cecile spent her time decorating the cashout booth and the surrounding area. She loves stuff!
Now our jobs are limited to selling and being babysitters. The new craze in pumpkin lots is to have large inflatable attractions to bring the families in. We only have two of these: a large inflatable slide which is shown in one of the pictures and a 'Clifford: The Big Red Dog' bounce house. There are some pumpkin lots to the south of us, in San Mateo and Redwood City, have five or six of these big monstrosities. It seems as if pumpkins are only a side business...giving the lot a seasonal dressing!
The lot is a little confining since we do not have (nor do we really need) any employees so we are pretty much on our own. The business owners are also parked on this lot until their Christmas tree lot open and they have offered to give us a bit of time off so this may not be so bad...and, only 17 days until Halloween.
Ain't life grand!
