First thing that happened, the post office called and said our 65 baby turkeys had arrived. We we not expecting them until Friday since they were coming from TX. but glad to get them early.
We ordered 65 and they sent 67. That is normal to account for any death loss in transit, but they all arrived alive.
I spent a couple of hours getting the turkey set up in the brooder while everyone else was harvesting and washing around 500 heads of lettuce. The forecast for Friday is 97 with a heat index of 101-103 and our thoughts were that our lettuce would be better suited in the walk-in cooler than in the field.
We then started tying up tomato plants to their individual stakes. Labor-intensive… Erin and i were pulling off the suckers and Jen, Pam, Charles, and CJ were following being doing the actual tying.
It takes about 10 man hours to tie up our 600 tomato plants and it happens every week.
Then we moved to the garlic patch and started pulling up garlic.
Around 4 pm, everyone started to fade. Complaining about minor things like open, oozing blisters, heat stoke, and other such non-sense…
Jenifer and I have been humbled by the caliber of folks that have shown up this year to work along side us.
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