Watermelons

Well, heres the news.

I'm sick!

Its real great. I get to do school, and blow my nose every fifteen minutes on toilet paper, because we are out of Kleenexes.

I think this is the first time in years we have been out of Kleenexes, and its very annoying. My nose is so red I could madden a bull.

Why is that the first thing I thought of? No idea. Really weird.

Anywho, mom told me to put chapstick on the end of my nose, so I did. Unfortunately, I didn't bother looking what the flavor was, and it turned out to be peppermint.

Pain. Pain. PAIN!

Well today I was thinking about what to blog, and I got to thinking that Amy said if I would let her write about anything, she would let me write about anything, except lots of stuff about watermelons and how they are so awesome, lets see if she was serious.

Watermelons can be both fruit and the plant of a vine-like herb originally from South Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit with a hard green rind and a sweet pink or red flesh.

In Vietnam, legend hold that watermelon was discovered in Vietnam long before it reached China, in the era of the Hung Kings. According to legend, watermelons was discovered by Prince Mai An Tiem, an adopted son of the 11th Hung King. When he was exiled unjustly to an island, he was told that if he could survive for six months, he would be allowed to return. When he prayed for guidance, a bird flew past and dropped a seed. He cultivated the see and called its fruit "dua tay" or western melon, because the birds who ate it flew from the west. When the Chinese took over Vietnam in about 110 BC they called the melons "dua hao" which means good melon, or watermelon.

Today, farmers in approximately 44 sates in to US grow watermelons, commercially, and most all these varieties have some Charleston Gray in their lineage.

Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and Arazona are the USA's largest watermelon producers.

The now-common watermelon is often large enough that groceries often sell half or quarter melons. There are also some smaller, spherical varieties of watermelon, both red and yellow-fleshed, sometimes called "icebox melons."

In Japan, farmers of the Zentsuji region found a way to grow cubic watermelons by growing the fruits in glass boxes and letting them naturally assume the shape of the receptacle. The square shape is designed to make the melons easier to stack and store, but the square melons are often more than double the price of normal ones. Pyramid shaped watermelons have also been developed and any polygonal shape may potentially also be used. (square watermelon shown above, along with an awesome watermelon car that I WANT!)