{"id":1723,"date":"2010-06-28T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2015-05-18T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:05:36","slug":"first-day-ive-ever-been-early-to-work-except-daylight-savings-lousy-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/first-day-ive-ever-been-early-to-work-except-daylight-savings-lousy-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"First day I&#8217;ve ever been early to work. Except daylight savings&#8211;lousy farmers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Tobie and I went strawberry-picking at Remlinger Farms in Carnation. <a href=\"http:\/\/Madamecacoon.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">Madamecacoon<\/a> had posted about going picking earlier in the week and how amazingly delicious and worthwhile her excusion was, and I&#8217;ll be damned if I wasn&#8217;t going to get in on some wonderful strawberries at a dollar a pound.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/37342_404708898939_504738939_4524290_1932917_n.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>At first we were a little disappointed; the area seemed picked-over and not worth the trip, but we found a row that had been virtually untouched, and we went to town.<\/p>\n<p>I picked seven-odd pounds of strawberries and ended up with a lot of schmutz on my hands; Tobie remarked that if space aliens were watching us, they would think we were an unbearably cruel species, given that we were plucking the genitals off of another species. 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