I have wanted to post an entry on the raspberry picking machines used in the fields here in Lynden. They are unique machines built just for picking raspberries trained on wires. The machines straddle one row at a time and have beaters which shake the vines. The berries drop down to a flat shelf near the ground and then up elevators where a crew of three pick out the vines and leaves (called Greens) from trays. Filled trays are stacked and empty trays are placed under the elevators. When all trays are filled, the machine stops and trays are offloaded to a truck. A fourth person drives the machine. Fields are picked twice a day during the peak time.
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The rest of our day involved lunch. Thomas cooked a superb angel hair pasta with bacon, mushrooms, a goat cheese (can’t remember the name) and pine nuts. Served with a green salad, garlic parmesan bread, and a very nice Pinot Gris, it was to die for.
Around 4 PM Thomas and Debbie left for home and the rest of us crashed. We came back to the RV and I worked on the blogs for the last two days.
