Chapter 27: Pumpkin Love
Jory is in town for a biweek, on a break from his football team. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and he decides to take me to Highdale Farm to purchase a pumpkin.
Highdale is owned and operated by Jory’s cousin, Bobby Highdale. The two hundred-acre business has been around for the past fifty years. A local custom prompts lovers and families to drive the fifteen miles northeast of Vanmer to the farm and pick out freshly harvested pumpkins for the autumn season. Jory’s excited about spending the evening with me; cutting and dicing the fleshy fruits with knives, cooking their innards and creating pumpkin pies.
The day makes for a perfect drive in Jory’s Hummer; blue skies, fifty degrees, low humidity. He talks most of the way about how the Vipers will win th
