National Zucchini Day

Well, I missed another important holiday. National Zucchini Day (yes, it is a real holiday that shows up on facebook and other semi-helpful calendars every year) was Monday, August 8.

For those of you who don’t know the long-standing and almost religious tradition that goes along with the holiday, I’ll give you the details.

About August, every zucchini plant that was planted in every haphazard and organized garden has now begun to proliferate. The bounty that comes off of one plant can feed a hoard or small army. The answer to the over-abundance is to offer said squash to every neighbor, friend, enemy and mailman you can find to dispose of said proliferation. But by August, everyone has already had their share of the squash and the gardener has to take more drastic measures to dispose of the rapidly producing vegetable.

Garden enthusiasts were quick to adopt the National Zucchini Day with wild abandon. They celebrate by picking all the zucchini off their plants and loading them up. They then travel by foot, wheelbarrow, car, boat and plane to find an unsuspecting house, or any house for that matter, dispose a load of zucchini on the front porch, ring the doorbell, and then run like crazy before said owner of the house makes them take the squash back.

So to celebrate this national holiday, I am posting a pile of squash.

August 8 was also National Frozen Custard Day just in case some of you zucchini-hating heathens are not happy.