We saw this brain looking fruit at the closest grocery store in Fargo. The sign says you don't eat it but that it will keep insects and spiders away. Despite their green color, they’re oranges. Osage oranges. Apparently you can eat them but only the seeds that are hard to extract. And they rot quickly. The insect repellent is a misnomer too. So I guess what they are really for is to throw.
The Sugar beet harvest job touts making $2400 in two weeks. But, it's 12 hour days no day off. The pile here is about 30 feet high. By the end of this job there was 180K tons of sugar beets on the ground. They are up to the size of a watermelon in size. Muddy and sticky too. I had to scrape the cement after every semi. I threw away the shoes and pants I wore during the harvest. Just not savable. It's one of those jobs you hear about and give it a try then promise you'll never do that again. Yep.
This picture was taken just before the beginning of the harvest. I got a fun try at operating the piler but my main assignment was ground helper. Non stop semi's pulled into the left and right hand side to dump their load fresh right out of the farmers field. Quite an operation. This site is just one of many sites in North Dakota and Minnesota. The harvest started October 1st. We completed the harvest by October 21st. There were some days off due to the temperature being too high. So we worked in the cold.
Very pretty sunsets every night in North Dakota. Oh, and wind. Lot's of wind.
