my good friend cengiz from turkey has been working with us for a bit now. he lets me drive the back hoe and do some excavating which i love to do. so today we were working near abrahams oasis again. after we got done with our trenching, he wanted to get some dates. they grow on palm trees. that was the first thing i learned about dates. second thing i learned was that they are harvested by two crazy people with a back hoe. cengiz wanted me to drive while he got up there and cut the bunch down. so i put him in the bucket of the back hoe and lifted him way up in the tree. it was really funny. then after cutting down two bunches, if thats even what they call them, we loaded up and took off for the shop. that is when i found out that we aren't supposed to be picking them. at least thats what some of the guys were saying but i think they like to look for drama. maybe thats what adam felt like partaking of the forbidden fruit. i do have to wonder if it made his tummy upset like it did mine. i ate way to many and some where a bit green. they were so good though. so that is what i know about dates and how they get harvested.
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