I arrived a little after six o'clock and the parking area along the road was already packed! There were tons of people, whole families, seniors, everybody. A VERY fun elderly man, an amputee, was directing cars to open parking areas with a big smile. Told me everyone calls him "Grandpa Rick." I immediately adopted him.
They had picking baskets that you attached to a shoulder harness, so that your hands could be free. There were ladders available for the younger folks. Instructions were given as to what kind of fruit we were picking and what a ripe one looked like, and off I walked.
This was the first picking, so there were many still not ripe. We get to go back Wednesday, 6AM.
There were trailers in every other row.
When our baskets were full, we emptied them in the trailer and went back for more.
As the ripe ones started disappearing, it became like an Easter egg hunt! Trying to find the elusive ready-to-pick fruit!
When the hunt was over, our foreman "fired" us and we went home.
It went too quickly. I can't wait for Wednesday! I would love to start each day like this!
So Utah...
if you look closely at the picture, you will see TWO LDS chapels....across the street from each other! Gotta love it!
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Love that last image, it's how I remember Utah - chapels across from one another and several within a few miles of one another...all you had to do was throw a rock and sure enough you'd hit a chapel. (at least where we lived in Hyrum)
Glad your settling in well. We have a church farm here and it's been a blessing for our area for sure.
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