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Today was the first day of my first job, at Jeffers Tree Farm. First, I was dragging fir trees (to be sold as Christmas trees) from where they were cut to where they would be baled. (The tree baler wraps a piece of string, which is first tied to the tree, around the tree several times.) Then, for a while, I was picking up trees and putting them in a tree baler. After that, I was tying the strings on trees when they were baled with another tree baler. When all of those trees were baled, I was taken to another field where there were some more trees to be dragged, but none of those trees were baled today.
My brother David worked at Jeffers tree farm this past spring, planting trees. He was there today, doing the same things I was doing. For a while, David was at one tree baler while I was at the other one. David did not go to the second field with me.
I don't think I had ever seen a fir tree up close before, but I saw a lot of them today. Our last 22 Christmas trees have been hemlocks (wild ones -- not from a tree farm), and before that we had a wild pine tree for a Christmas tree.
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My First Day At Work
Oct 30 2007, 07:01 PM
