Puerto Rico
I am here, sitting behind the front desk of the hotel that we’re staying at. Mitch has been coming here for the past 6 years or so and knows all those things that you should know when you travel some place. And he knows all those people that make life easier and better—like when you want to bum the internet off them.
Work has been going very well. I will be dreaming of numbers on packets tonight. All day I have been writing 1059-3, 1059-4, 1061-1 etc. and have sore fingers because of ripping the bags open….
What am I doing you ask? I am on working over my spring break. As a graduate student, my life is connected to Kansas State University. So when my boss (Mitch) asked me to help harvest over spring break, I readily accepted. Now I am here at our winter nursery. Yesterday we finished harvesting everything from the field and now we are threshing it. We should finish tomorrow and do paperwork on Wednesday and ship of Thursday. I return on Friday. Need to run.
Kersh <><
Parguera PR
Work has been going very well. I will be dreaming of numbers on packets tonight. All day I have been writing 1059-3, 1059-4, 1061-1 etc. and have sore fingers because of ripping the bags open….
What am I doing you ask? I am on working over my spring break. As a graduate student, my life is connected to Kansas State University. So when my boss (Mitch) asked me to help harvest over spring break, I readily accepted. Now I am here at our winter nursery. Yesterday we finished harvesting everything from the field and now we are threshing it. We should finish tomorrow and do paperwork on Wednesday and ship of Thursday. I return on Friday. Need to run.
Kersh <><
Parguera PR
posted by kersh | 9:17 PM
4 Comments:
Just a thought: wouldnt it make more sense to computer print labels for those packets? Arent the entry lists in a spreadsheet? So you mark the ones that were harvested and format a label that is easy to read and accurate, as it is from the planting list. This saves a lot of writing, and if you print 2 labels per entry, one can be placed on the row tag (and then any mismatches can more easily be traced) and one on the storage envelope.
Remember the Five Ps: Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Wearing a wifebeater as you do the field work? Pics?
Dude, drop the wifebeater stuff. I don't even own one.
If you want to see any pictures from this trip, your odds are better if you identify yourself.
It would be so much hassle working with labels that it would not be worth the effort.
Until the day of harvest, it is not finalized which rows are taken and which are left. Of the ones taken, sometimes it is not known how many single heads will be harvested.
Finally, you assume that the label will stay attached to the packet. In PR's humid climate, you could not count on the stickiness alone. You would have to be sure the staple closed the lid and secured the label. Just too much work for a task that would still require someone in PR to attach the labels.
I think of it as job security.
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Wife Beater
This past weekend was awesome. It started with a Rook game that Scott Kellenberger and I swept. Next came a shocking experience during the service project in Kansas City. We still don’t know the price tag of crossing the wires in the attic, but the electrician was working on the problem. I am just so thankful that Tom or I didn’t touch bare wires and that we found the problem before we left!
Saturday night was an enlightening Bible study by Kent Heimer in Fort Scott. He expounded on the types of believers and lost persons. I have yet to listen to first 8 minutes, which I can from castpost. The best part of the weekend was testimonies and baptisms on Sunday. Robin and Jud had such encouraging stories and radiating joy. It was great.
I didn’t do a good job packing last Friday. I had to borrow an undershirt for Sunday because I only had my white shirt and would in NO WAY go without an undershirt if I didn’t have a jacket! I found out why wife beaters have a bad rap. The straps were just wrong. I wondered if I needed to shave my pits after I put it on. After the whole day, I was nice to put it in the wash and rejoice in my collection of undershirts!"
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