Sunday, August 14, 2011

I picked blueberries

I went out for the 2nd weekend in a row. :)

Last week was jamming my left hand into the zip lines at Tree to Tree Adventure.
Note: I didn't make it up this wall...this year.

This week was picking blueberries at Bonny Slope Blueberries.

The blueberry farm is basically a house with extra land where the owners planted blueberry bushes. The payment uses a complete honor system where customers weigh and pay on their own, and put the money in a drawer. Might be one of those developed, rich country or even "American" ideals as I think this would be much abused in China or Taiwan. The owner told me "Look in. Look up." which I learned is pretty good advice as every berry at the top has been picked clean. But if you crouch down and look up, you see all the berries hidden from view by the leaves.

This past work week was pretty bad as I caused a problem in OM by using every available inventory for 1 Softitel order, and now there's no product to fulfill another order we got on the same day. People are pissed. But, I'll take a deep breath, eat some blueberries, learn my lesson, "look in, look up", and move on.

Note to self: don't talk to Sales about order fulfillment anymore.