Farm Workers June 13, 2006 I am still here, just been so busy helping our son Rick, and going to ball games. He has a farm with almonds and walnuts, The walnut orchard is just a young orchard and the trees are small so he has my husband and I help him prune them, then we had to put water emitters and water lines in the almond orchard. Seems the squirrels love to eat holes in the lines. Right now we are helping him plant a pomegranate orchard. Set up string lines, dig, plant, stake, water. We get a row of 40 done in a day, could do more, but we are getting old. Getting a nice tan on my neck and lower arms, I suggested wearing shorts, they all nixed that. I guess the thought of me bending over planting a tree in shorts didn't do much for them. Plus my son is the manager of the boys all star team and coach for his daughter's softball team, and right now he is the coach of the Tournament of Champions, which means the first place team of the league plays other first place teams from different areas, so between pruning and planting orchards and softball we are kept busy. One day we were out pruning the walnut trees, and his farm advisor guy came by then called Rick and told him when his Mexicans get done pruning the suckers off the walnut trees, they could do the summer pruning. He said "what Mexicans? The farm advisor guy says, "the ones out there pruning off the suckers." "Those aren't my Mexicans, Rick says, "they're my parents!" Only ran into 2 rattle snakes while pruning.