Peaches or Raisins Anyone? Making Dried Peaches  |  Making Raisins |  Redwood Trays |  Paper Trays Learn More I was shopping in the grocery store a couple of days ago here in Lincoln, Nebraska. I approached the dried fruits shelf's and I asked the lady standing next to me if she knew where those raisins came from. She said  "no I don't." I said, "would you like to know something about it as I grew up working with them?" I was just being friendly to the young lady whom seemed very interested in what  she was reading the information on the back-side of the Sun-Maid Raisins Container.                              I said, "Young Lady I can tell you a lot about them as I was born and raised just 7 miles north of Kingsburg, California, the main office and processing plant of Sun-Maid. The fruit used to be Sun Dried, but now it is dried by dehydration machines. Here is pictures of a drying yard with Peaches cut in half on Redwood trays. This was very hard back breaking work as it took two people, one on each end to spread them out like this.Then turn them over at the right time buy putting a tray on top and the team of two would flip the two trays without moving the fruit out of place on the opposing try.                 Making Raisins There are many varieties of grapes, but the one seen the most are like in the raisins in the container pictured up above. They come from the grapes and the vines you see here are Thomson grapes. the yellow grapes.                              Making raisins was similar to making dried peaches except they started to use treated paper as this was cheaper. They were not fumigated, but spread well over the tray without bunching up so all berries would receive the Sun rays. When dried enough they where turned as the peaches were turned except the 2 man team had to wood trays in which they pulled the paper tray up on the wood tray and topped with the second tray and then flipped just right so the grapes still layer as a single layer for proper drying. I have been working and researching how to copy a picture which was made by my mother's aunt about 1925 of my grandmother, mother, uncle and their fruit stand along high-way 99 in Selma, California, but to no avail. Her aunt was a professional and may have done something to stop copies. I had wanted you to know this article is real, not copied out of the website of Sun-Maid.com. I hope you enjoy and if you have never tried them, they are stimulating in the mouth and very healthy. Sincerely, Harley Petersen We care, I care at Petersen Ministries.

How To Walk

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As a responsible elderly human being approaching 77 years of
age just around the corner, I feel the obligation to pass on
some (wisdom) which has come by pondering what worked
and what did not work in situations  that came up through life.

               

• Good happy families are like fudge -- Mostly sweet 
• with a few nuts. 
• But raising teenagers is a pain, like nailing Jell-O 
• to a tree.
  
• Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly 
• car payment is due.
• It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill: 
• just add a little dirt.
• Being silent is good. Others think you are listening.
• Why is the third hand on a watch called a 
• second hand?
• Confucius was so smart, he said things like: to 
• make egg roll, push it.

What does this have to do with walking?

Nothing, except the procedure.

              
A child notices that the adults can get around much faster as they
walk on their feet. The child forms a goal in it's mind of finding
out how to walk like them.

It is a procedure of trail and error. He or she keeps trying and
learning not to do again that which let them fall.

When they have succeeded in walking without falling, it is
committed into the brain like the hard drive in a computer.

Have you ever thought about how you walk. Like as you
start to raise your left leg and swing the lower part forward,
then lower the whole leg while swinging the lower forward
until the heel touches the floor, and on, and on. and on.

When you want to start walking, it happens without your
thinking, move right leg forward, move left leg forward, etc.
It comes out of your brain without you thinking it.

This is called Rote Memory.

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                    Amazing body we live in, isn't it.
Sincerely

Harley Petersen
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Whenever I'm disappointed with something, I stop and think
about what  Maria, in my classroom told me about her sister.

               

Her younger sister was trying out for a part in a school play.
Maria indicated that her sister had set her heart on being
in the play, but was afraid she would not be chosen.

On the day the parts were awarded, Maria and her sister
came running back to my classroom with her eyes
shinning with pride and excitement. Guess what
Mr....... she shouted, and then said those words that
will remain a lesson to me. 

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                                 I'll Bet You?

                 I will bet you that most won't recognize
                        this for what it was worth! 


      I was asked how old I was recently. I replied that I was
              old enough to remember the Olden Days.


                     The Olden Days.
                            
                    Toilet paper is a luxury
                that as a child I never knew!

                 

                  In our toilet was a Catalog
               with the pages all gone through

                    

        We used the pages that crumpled nicely
          and became supple & soft to use.
             for a purpose.....
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Wrong Words

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Have you had an experience of a young child using the wrong word.
Maybe using the wrong word because it sounds so similar.

I remember that I was standing outside the church when I herd  a young
nephew ask another young boy if he knew how many women a man
can marry?

"Sixteen," the boy answered.

Ua, aaa said young boy. That's not right.

"Yes it is said the little boy," The preacher said, "four better,
four worse, four richer, four poorer"

Well, not harm done there, however the better I knowledge of
words, The better we can do the job.

Take for instance, when I worked the Big Heavy Equipment, a
mistake could be very costly. Here is a Cat D10 & Cat D9.

I was working on a section of the Union Pacific Railroad and
I was cutting out another road way for another set of rails.

The job entailed cutting a hill down 65 feet, 100 feet back into the
hill and a 2 to 1 slope. Five miles of the job had this solid rock.









                                                                  
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My Mom and Dad had a Fruit ranch about 20 miles South-East
of Fresno California. My Dad’s parents had a ranch about
1 mile away, so I knew them very well.

                      
My Sister Janice and I would see our grandparents very often.
Brother Ron was not born yet.

Grandpa passed away when I was about 15 years old. He was
usually very serious, but occasionally he would pull a funny.
I was always interested in hearing about his young age and
believed in everything he told me.

My grandfather was sent by his parents from Denmark at the age
of14 to live with his Aunt and Uncle here in Minden, Nebraska.
My grandfather worked in a blacksmith shop, and he used to tell
me how he had strengthen himself so he could stand the rigors of
blacksmiths.


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