Here goes nothing...

Today was the annual all-Danforth Center meeting. Basically, Dr. Beachy, the President of the Center, and Sam Fiorello, the COO, gave an update on the progress of funding, new PI's, and future construction, and they gave some awards for people who had been there at least 5 years. But the good part came after the meeting.

I cornered Dr. Beachy on the way out and told him about my plans for the pumpkin. He had seen the email that I sent out, and was actually very interested. He had a few horticultural questions about my plans, but I was able to answer them, and he gave Howard the go ahead to find us some room for the pumpkin.

Howard and I went to the back and scoped out our plot. He thought the idea of a 1000 sq. ft. plant was pretty hilarious, but he also said that he might be able to get a guy at Monsanto who's a landscape contractor to help us out a little bit with tilling the soil using some sort of ridiculously humongous machine.

Ridiculously Humongously Awesome.