sweet caroline... doo doo doo

yesterday (monday) as i was walking back to my dorm from my one class of the day, a pumpkin ran across my path.

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it wasn't until about 10 minutes ago that i got excited for thanksgiving. i mean, i was excited for the meal because rebakah has invited me to thanksgiving at her grandparents, and i was excited for that. but, the story was originally this: my roommate left this morning for home, and my suitmates are leaving tomorrow morning (wednesday) for home, so i was gonna be alone in my sute for four days. on top of that, rebekah was spending the break at her grandparents, and shiloh is flying back home tomorrow... plus everyone else and their mom. solitude for four days? i can understand a day or two would be nice, but four?
well turns out i had been invited to stay with rebekah this whole time, i just didn't know it... and rebekah didn't know i didn't know it haha, it was a good time once it was all straightened out. so i have a home this thanksgiving! yay thanks rebekah!

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then this pumpkin started climbing up the tree.
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so i had this tangerine today, and it was a pity tangering. i was at meijer yesterday, and this lady had a little sample booth set up with pieces of sunburst tangerine. she sat there and explained to me the thinner easier to peel skin, and how they have almost no seeds... she was trying real hard, i could tell. so, i figured i could use some fruit, so i grabbed two tangerines from her (plus they were delicious). so back to the pity tangerine... i was peeling it. it wasn't the easiet to peel, but i loved peeling it because you know how when you peel an orange or something of the like, how when you break the peel, this white kind of a cloud-thing bursts from it and it smells amazing... i live for that smell. really. if you are ever peeling an orange or something by me, i will probably sit there and wait for that just to smell that smell. anyway, back to the pity orange. i started to eat it. delicious, but i have never had a seedier tangerine in all my life. at least two seeds per piece of tangerine. i was baffled by the situation.

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so, of course it wasn't just a pumpkin running across my path... it was a squirrel carrying a pumpkin in its mouth... the pumpkin was about the size of a softball! I have decided that this is indeed the number one time that i have been most disappointed and upset that i did not have my camera with me. it was right there in front of me, climbing up a tree about three feet away. have you ever seen a squirrel climb up a tree with a pumpkin?!?! had i had my camera, you could say that you have. anyway, i watched it climb all the way to the top, and i ran to get my camera. when i got back, the squirrel was making its way down the tree. but where was the pumpkin? i looked to the very top of the tree... low and behold, in one of the top branches, there sat a pumpkin. a pumpkin in a tree. what a sight! so then, since this tree is super tall but super skinny, i laughed at the idea of someone walking by, having a pumpkin fall in front of them, and then look around, look up, and have absolutely no idea what in the world just happened... i mean, pumpkins falling from the sky?!? what would you think? and then i thought, hey, i walk under that tree everyday, and even considered breaking out my helmet...
so everytime i walked by the tree, i would check for the pumpkin... and i can see it from the stairwell in my dorm. but it rained last night, and as the rain picked up, the first thing i thought of was, "for sure the pumpkin is gonna fall!" i woke up and eagerly checked for the pumpkin... and in the words of my grampa: "still there!"
so i do a pumpkin check every once in a while... i sure do hope i get to witness its falling... or at least the squirrels retrieval of it.
i forgot the greatest part... where did this pumpkin come from in the first place?
the windowsill of a room on 2nd VanDellen... theres a whole line of little pumpkins, but one is missing now. and i know where it is.
i love calvin squirrels.

i just wrote a post about a pumpkin in a tree... that's a first.