Driving home from work this week I decided to take the back road through the farmland.  As I drove along I caught out of the corner of my eye a box with something yellow sticking out so I put the car in reverse and pulled up to have a look.  There, on the side of the road, was a box marked ‘FREE’ and in it was a big yellow squash!  Never one to turn down a free item I brought it home with the intention to make it into a nice soup.  The problem is I don’t know what kind of squash it is!  It actually resembles more of a zucchini except the skin is hard and nubby where a zucchini is soft and smooth (yes, there are yellow zucchini, news to me)!  My squash is large so I think its fully grown and it looks like it came off a vine that had branched off.

It also has an interesting green spot on its bottom!

It’s really is perfect so at this point I don’t have the heart to cut it up so I think I will keep it on the kitchen table as a conversation piece and by the way I felt guilty just taking it so I threw a toonie in the box before driving away!