Posted on 04/24/2017 10:18:27 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
We all live in an increasingly toxic world
Do you remember the line in the musical Showboat, the one that says, Its summertime and the living is easy? Maybe it is for some people. But the worst summer I ever endured was during World War II. We all had to contribute to the war effort and my job was to pick peaches on a farm. But for years I had suffered from Hay Fever! Peaches and their fuzz were a Perfect Storm! Could I have avoided this allergy today?
Its estimated that 40 million North Americans now suffer from mild to severe allergies. Worse still, for some people, the allergy season never ends. And although there are several factors that trigger these allergic reactions, the main cause is pollen.
No, I don’t remember that. Especially since that song is from “Porgy & Bess,” not “Showboat.”
I have allergy.
Oak tree pollen.
I don’t hate acorns...................
I picked cherries and got about $.60 per lug.....If you were fast and good, you could get maybe 8 lugs a day. This was back around 1963 or 64 when I was just 13.....
LOL!...................
Beat me to it.
I picked cucumbers one summer for 0.75 a bushel.
They wanted the tiny gherkins, not the table and salad sizes....................
Hard to take seriously when a big mistake is in the first paragraph!
If you think pollen is toxic you’re going to have a very miserable life outside a sterile laboratory. The skyrocketing rate of allergic reactions to me seems to trace back to the advent of widespread air conditioning and keeping windows closed. It’s a sign of an immature immune system that was never exposed to very common, natural, organic components of a normal environment.
Maybe he should have gone with:
Here we all work on de Mississippi
Here we all work while de white folks play,
Loadin’ up boots wid de bales of cotton,
Gettin’ no rest till de Judgement Day.
But then again, even de white folks playin would have allergies . . . . . .
That’s hilarious.
Anyway, I was in northern Michigan and lived about a mile outside of town on the lake. The orchard would send a truck into town to pick up the kids who wanted to pick cherries then pass by my house where I would be standing on the side of the road with my bag lunch at about 6:30 in the morning and I would hop into the back with the other kids and off to the orchard we would go.........
It wasn't a permanent job since the truck would pick up anyone on the route and the orchard would give us vouchers for each lug picked and we would cash them in at the end of the day. I think part of the day was spent throwing cherries at each other until we got caught and scolded......LOL!
I had a similar experience picking prunes during those same years. The men would knock the prunes to the ground with wooden sticks (in later years, there was an attachment to a tractor that would shake the trunk of the tree). The prunes would fall to the ground. We'd kneel on the dirt clods and would get 45-50 cents a grape box (about 24 x 17 x 6 inches). You'd put your initials on the box with chalk to get credit for it. I picked prunes alongside Mexicans - mostly families - the parents and kids would all pick together. At the end of the day, my back would be killing me. I'd ride my bike home, get a bite to eat, soak in a hot tub, and go straight to bed.
It was in Mississippi in 1967-68, nut the temps and humidity is the same..................
Hand loaded trucks in summer 1964 in a packing house for $1 an hour, 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. My mother’s idea.
I picked peaches as a late summer job when I was a kid. As simple labor goes, it was pretty nice. We were expected to refresh ourselves as necessary, and you can’t get any fresher peaches than when you’re up in a tree picking ‘em.
Get around bees. Get stung 4 or 5 times a year, at least. You wont have allergies.
Where’d you get the P.C. lyrics?
It’s “Darkies all work...”
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