How to Harvest
- Subject: How to Harvest
- From: K* M* <f*@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:07:02 -0700
Way we do it here in California
Hold a harvest party.
Buy approx. one case of something cold to drink.
Invite 16-20 of the youngest best-looking guys you know (with your
husband's permission, of course).
Take pictures of everyone with the pumpkin to be harvested.
Hand-select four guys to tip the pumpkin up on one side.
Slide a tarp, folded in half, beneath the fruit.
Then roll or otherwise wrestle the fruit back up on its other side and
unfold the tarp.
Everybody rests and drinks a drink.
Then you have the guys each take a handle of the tarp. Everyone ready?
At the count of three, everyone lifts at once.
When they do, a short fat elderly lady gets underneath and shoves a
pallet beneath the pumpkin-on-the-tarp. I try to get it centered
beneath the pumpkin and scramble out from underneath before the guys
lose their grip and collapse in exhaustion.
If you followed these instructions carefully, you now have a kind of
layer cake: pumpkin on top of a tarp on top of a pallet.
Here's where the forklift takes over and eases the layers into the bed
of the waiting truck.
Happy harvest to you all!
Kathie Morgan
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