Things that don’t look alike

My neighbor grew yellow squash and green zucchini.

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She grew unremarkable dozens, and then one day she found this strange cross:

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It has raised yellow areas on a green matrix.  Some busy bee brought together a yellow squash and a green zucchini, and this was the result.  (There were cucumbers around too, but I think they’re too different to cross.)

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When Judy cut it open it looked like dinner, and she fried it up that night.

I don’t know if it was a squcchini or a zuash. 

We should have kept it for seeds, but didn’t think to… and you know it wasn’t the first time.  People must have eaten up agricultural innovations throughout history. 

How fitting that a bumblebee probably made the squcchini–it bumbled into existence–while our bumbling ensured that we won’t be planting any of those next year. 

bum·bling   [buhm-bling]

–adjective

1. liable to make awkward blunders: a bumbling mechanic.
2. clumsily incompetent or ineffectual: bumbling diplomacy.

–noun

3. the act or practice of making blunders: The bumbling of their officers cost them the battle.



[Origin: 1525–35; bumble1 + -ing2]

1 Response to “Things that don’t look alike”


  1. 1 Barb

    Oh that is the coolest thing I’ve seen! What a fun find in the garden.

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