The Harvest Moon is out tonight. It's sure been a long day. Just got back from going out to dinner with a very old friend-- known him since before I could walk. Our parents grew up together and to a sporadic extent so did we. Now he's a reporter for a TV news station in the mid-west, working his way up the professional ladder. It's been some years since last we sat down. There could be a Mrs. in his near future and also a major promotion. Way to go my friend. There were many drinks had and even more ridiculous conversation/riotous laughing.
I'm a bit wooden faced from whiskey (my friend guzzles manhattans like water), but here we go:
Full sun and big towers of clouds all through the day. The temperature stuck to the mid 70Fs.
It was an action day. Gizzie and I sorted out tomatoes first thing this morning-- setting up 4 boxes of moskivich for a special customer and then filled out the store displays. Next up: we ferreted buckets between the barn and tomato fields before settling down to the big task-- picking the cherry tomatoes. Gizzie and I picked the cherries all morning (5 buckets? I think), finishing right around lunch time.
After lunch-- the foreman and Newport joined us pulling all the beets from the lower fields-- we filled 4 tall buckets. Then it was potato time-- 15 buckets (7 whites, 8 reds). Gizzie left early to go take some class, but the rest of us remained on the hilltop for long hours.
Near the day's end we rolled back to the store and sorted out everything: washed/boxed the potatoes, washed/clipped the beets and stacked the fall apple/peach delivery into the cooler. By the time everything was finished it was closing time. The potatoes really wiped me out today... But
Time for home, friends, drink and sleep.
More tomorrow, take it easy.
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