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Pruning Trees

It’s six in the morning when we pull into the tree field. The sun is rising and the fog is lifting, leaving the trees white with dew. There’s about twenty of us. The riders, who’ve been sleeping the whole way, rub their eyes and wonder what’s going on and the drivers lay their heads back hoping for rain or a five second nap. It’s not long before Junior, the boss steps out of his Ford diesel four- by- four and yells, “Well let’s get ‘um.” (The trees, he means.) Junior is the owner of the trees, about thirty years old. We all get along with him because he’s a nice guy and we all do what he says because his arms are as big as our heads.
So we sharpen our knives and pick a row of trees ...

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at a video game or at grubbing? Grubbing is a pruner’s term for wrestling; it’s what we do when we have a dispute instead of really fighting. Once in a while someone will be arguing about something and throw down their knives and go at it, in which case everyone in the field runs to watch. It’s the best entertainment we can find on a long day out in a tree field.
One day we were all sitting around eating lunch and decided we should have a two-on-two match up and somehow I got put on one of the teams. Someone said go and we started. I held off my opponent as my bigger and older counterpart beat up the other guy. Then he come and ganged up on my opponent for the win. After that we had a three-on-three that lasted for about ten minutes, then went back to work.
Working in Christmas trees all day, finding bee trees was an everyday occurrence. Some trees had hornet’s nests the size of a volleyball. Steven, one of my class mates and one the craziest guys in the field, was ...

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Added: 3/27/2005 04:31:49 AM
Category: English
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