07/11/88

COOL We had a 5 o’clock start again and had toast for brekkie then went up to the shed in the car. Got to the cherry patch and got going. Our first tree was quite good & so was the 2nd & we picked 2 lugs in about 1 1/2 hours. The next few trees were lousey¹ then we

fullsizeoutput_6f9
My diary page for November 7th and 8th, 1988. A smear of Toblerone and grafitti by Linda Key. 

got onto a good tree which gave us 3 lugs in about 3 hours of fairly easy picking. (10 lugs for the day). We knocked off a 3:00 & went into town with a German guy called Stephan to do our grocery shopping.

¹Some cherry trees have lots of fruit and few branches and leaves; others have sparce fruit scattered among branches with lots of leaves.

 

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s