On Wednesday October 1st, we went to the vineyard north of Fresno to pick up raisans. The crop was huge this year. The largest ever. I drove the tracker and other high priests and Sister Hightower did the picking up. We were there about three hours and picked up eight bins of raisans. Each bin is 4' x 4' x 2' and each weighs about 500 lbs heaping full. There are 300 rows in the vineyard. We picked up four rows. Let's see two bins per row equals a 1,000 lbs per row times 300 rows. That's 300,000 lbs of raisans.
On the way home Brother Hightower said to come out to his place and get rid of all the rabbits. They have eaten their lawn down to nothing and converted it all to fertilizer. So, Mike Rogers and I went out Thursday evening and saw four rabbits and got one. Also, Mike shot a quail at 100 yds and I said let's go get it. We started out and a red tailed hawk swooped down a grabbed the quail before we went 10 feet. We went back out at dawn the following morning and got six rabbits and the hawk was waiting for us but he went without this time. So now I have six rabbits in the freezer and one in the bread basket. The missionaries ate rabbit for the first time Friday night.
We are starting to pick lettuce from our fall garden. It rained for the first time in six months last week. This week we got a good snow in the mountains. We hope it will be a wet year. Things are quite dry around here.
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