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Dax Rind Timeline

From sprout to champion to legend — in Sweet Calendar years. (In-world fiction timeline.)

1. Year 402 SC
   The dawn sprouting
   A baby watermelon-head pops out of a prize melon in the Melon Meadows during the Blossom Parade. The Vale adopts him by lunchtime.
2. Year 405 SC
   The first picnic
   Three-summer-old Dax organizes the Lemonade Creek meadow picnic. Sixty neighbors attend.
3. Year 408 SC
   First Rind Games entry
   Dax enters seed-spitting 'for the free lemonade' and wins by a melon-length.
4. Year 409 SC
   The First Great Picnic
   Rain threatens the harvest feast; Dax moves it into the striped barn. A legend is born.
5. Year 410 SC
   Second championship
   Dax defends his Rind Games title. The victory picnic lasts three days.
6. Year 412 SC
   The record & retirement
   The Seed-Spit Heard Round the Vale: a new valley record, a third title, and retirement 'while I'm still cute.'
7. Year 414 SC
   The Frostnap rescue
   Dax's Cocoa Brigade saves Lantern Night from the blizzard.
8. Year 415 SC
   The Moonlight Duet
   Dax joins Ruby Bellamy on the Sock-Hop stage; the valley swoons.
9. Every year since
   The picnic continues
   The Great Picnic grows, the coaching continues, and the blankets keep spreading.