I used to live in Canton, so I know where that’s at. Didn’t realize there was that many peaches up there though.
Good luck at A&M tomorrow!
Well, Smith’s Peach and Berry Farm is no longer active, but there’s still Efurd Orchards and Richardson’s peaches on highway 271 south of town if you ever drive that way in the summer. The Efurds are family, and I worked for them for 2 years and Smith’s for 1 year. Best peaches you’ll ever have from those roadside stands, better than anything you can find in a store.
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Down here Fredericksburg peaches are the good ones.
Afaik, the entire agriculture industry in CA relies on illegal immigrants to do most of the harvesting.
I believe vegetable produce in the U.S. will be VASTLY more expensive if you actually got rid of illegal immigrants from CA.
Replace the illegal immigrants with the children of citizens/residence. Problem solved.
I don’t doubt that they’ll find people to do the work, but the cost of labor will likely go up a lot. The local news previously reported that farmers offered upwards of 25 USD an hour and no one came.
And the farmers will have to pass that cost down.
I enjoyed reading it, so thank you for taking the time. Should I ever put together a team of any sort, I’ll keep it in mind!
There is nothing worse than group work in school, which I consider to be academic communism - from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs. I have been more patient in work settings, but it is still problematic. I was thinking about work I have to do today as I woke up and had the thought that I need to check in with my unofficial business partner about a referral stream I’m creating for myself, and the question for her that popped into my head when thinking about making it happen for her along with myself was “at what level do you want me to carry you?” Which of course would not go over well. There’s been a good bit of communism through the startup of our private practices. Sometimes I mind, sometimes I don’t.
Confession: I wonder about expanding my gig, bringing in unlicensed therapists and either paying them salaries or taking a cut - like, starting a business. And then I remember that I don’t want to work harder or worry about other people’s shit because I’m fundamentally lazy. Lazy and ambitious. It’s a dilemma.
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I can eat a peach for hours.
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Love a good peach. Gotta be juicy though, im talking uncontrollably dripping down your chin juicy.
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Not sure you guys are talking about the same type of peach…
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Oh I bet you can. You tease!
I really love your peaches
Want to shake your tree
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I confess, I’ve fallen for the oldest trick in the book: Wife and I just had the two little ones, and have discussed multiple times that we weren’t going to get anything for each other on Valentine’s Day, she was good with it, I’m good with it, makes sense. This is the first year that we’ve said/done this, so me, being me am thinking, “Well, maybe I should get her something, I’ll check with her before V-Day and make sure she’s still good with it.” She’s pretty picky so I like to get a few ideas from her and then I pick from them, just makes life easier, well for the last two weeks she’s stuck to her guns, “No, we don’t need anything, we’ll just get something for the girls that they need with the money.” “Ok, cool.” I think to myself, “Good times!” …Well, turns out she did get me something, and I got her nothing but a little treat (something I do on a regular basis when I stop at the gas station or whatever) this just happened to be a cheesy rice krispy treat in a heart shape…guess who has gotten the cold shoulder for the past 18 hours because, “It’s Valentine’s Day and you just came up with a freakin’ rice krispie treat, D!”
God. Damnit. I knew better, I fkn knew better. 
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This sounds especially gross, you may have been alright if you got one without cheese on it.
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No shit! I read it that way the first time too!
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I dunno, I mean, if it wasn’t too sweet I reckon a cheesy rice krispie treat would be kinda nice.
Sucks that happened. Mrs and I are legit on the “no gifts” thing, but my gift to her on Valentine’s day is to give her a massage. It’s free, and always available.
Her gift to me is rolling her eyes while I spend the entire day wishing people “Happy VD!”
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I probably represent some of these - I stumbled across the site looking for specific information and stayed because I got sucked into the fora. When I came in I was a runner who did minimal upper body work (pink dumbbells). After reading here I started lifting more seriously, as did my ex-husband, who’d attended college on a tennis scholarship. Neither of us were couch potatoes. Lifting was a secondary pursuit for me, with running my passion, so not serious relative to bodybuilders or strength trainers. That’s pretty much where I remain. A log doesn’t feel necessary to me, for one thing because I think it would take time from workouts. If I’m in the Bigger Stronger or Training Log threads I’m probably off my workouts and wasting time while also looking to re-motivate myself. I come here for that.
The thing is, I’m unusual in my world for doing even what I do, so there is an element of “found my people” for me here. More intense, more driven, more interested in maximizing gains of whatever sort. In my early 20’s I worked in gyms, then moved to weight loss before going back to school, so these are areas of long interest for me.
I post in Off Topic because there is no expectation of expertise there. I read more broadly without commenting. But again, that happens more when I’m not on track than when I am.
Well then you’re one of the fucking weirdos!
But your story makes sense; fitness and exercise is, and presumably has pretty much always been, part of your life. There’s dudes who come into the off topic or politics forums with their first post something completely unrelated to training, and they just stick around to talk about off topic stuff.
As I’ve been on the site for longer I feel less and less inclined to post in threads about training because there’s only so much you can say on the subject, so I could see how someone who’d been here for a while would gravitate over towards the off topic sections after a while, particularly if they’ve been here long enough to make some pals, but for it to be your only reason to ever come to the site I just think is weird.
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This!
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Nope - not allowed! As an adult, you cannot enter into an agreement with your spouse and then get upset when they uphold their end of said agreement. There are enough real life problems to address without creating more through mind games.
My wife and I decided no gifts for Christmas and then she changed her mind like five days before the big day. I had to scramble and I was not impressed with myself.
Her reason for changing the plan made sense though - our kids should see us exchange gifts and show love/affection towards each other.
So I guess we did it to put on a good show for them.
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