Last week Laurie and I visited the tulip fields in the Skagit Valley. The weather was delightful and I didn't have to do any work, just walk around.
Mentioning work because I worked in these fields thirty years ago, some six seasons harvesting daffodils at Lefeber's Bulb Farm.........It was too hard....... Lefeber offered me a year round job but I turned him down. Being full time I could have ridden the tractor and do cool stuff like that instead of just bending over all day picking flowers for piece work money...... But I preferred being a part time farmworker........
. I used to promote this kind of labor and I wrote stories like "Americans ought to pick their own fruit." and "Bring Back the Berry Bus." The idea being we ought to do our own farm work instead of hiring poor people from poor countries to do it for us....... I thought why are those tourists riding bikes down the farm roads getting exercise -- why don't they just get in the field and do the work..... Well, I did my share, six seasons.... If everybody did a few seasons of field work we would get it all done......
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