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Life in Washington - Summer 2007 |
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| Summer 2007: This
summer Erick, Jimmie's son, and two of the grandkids, James and Carrie
joined us for the summer. They arrived the same day cherries
harvest began and stayed with us until the end of August, about 2 days
before harvest ended. Erick was a great help and quickly caught on
to the activities of harvest. James and Carrie helped with
cherries sorting, making boxes and helping to keep the sorting room
stocked with boxes and tidy. In between all the work they did
manage to have some fun on the ranch.
Father's Day was a big event at the ranch. We celebrated at Ron and Connie's house. This year we had 3 generations of fathers. It was a great day. Harvest was plentiful. Unfortunately we had an issue with mildew on the nectarines (about 55% of our harvest). It added many hours of mind-numbing work to do the extra cleaning and sorting of the nectarines. We were very thankful to have Erick's help. Even with all the extra work Dave found time to plant an incredible vegetable garden. One of the great prizes was the fresh corn. Fantastic! He also grew enough plum tomatoes to can for winter. Becca had a recipe and brief article about the ranch published in the June issue of Cooking Light. It was quite exciting to see our name in a national magazine. |
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 One of the guys picking cherries |
 Bing Cherries |
 Jimmie loading the conveyer belt with cherries to be sorted |
 Cherry sorting with all the positions filled |
 We were happy to have the extra hands |
Washed and sorted cherries coming off the line |
 Carrie leaned how to pack cherries |
 Jimmie, Erick, James and Carrie on the apricot line. Quite a bit easier than sorting cherries. |
 Carrie with Millie and Misty. |
 James and his catch. |
 Our 3 generations of fathers - Erick, Ron and Jimmie |
 We enjoyed a tasty ham dinner for father's day |
 Dave's ranch-grown corn |
 Connie and Dave harvesting corn |
 Erick, Jimmie and Dave sorting Nectarines |
 Connie sorting nectarines |
 Our cherries being featured at New Seasons Market in Portland |
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 Our article in Cooking Light |
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