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It is coming up every season, and it is no fun to do. I'm talking about blue berry raking. My dad owns two blue berry field, so I have always had to rake them every year in August . My parents have had my brothers and sisters, and me in the field ever since we were kids. None of us like doing it but it helps them out and the money helps make it worth it. It takes a lot of hard work to keep the field up.


We have to burn one of  the fields every other year. What ever field we burn we have to wait a year before we can rake it. We burn one field and rake the other field.  First we have to walk the whole field and put hay down, so the field will burn. When that is all done, than we have a little bit of fun and get to start burning it. It dose not take long and the work starts again. After if is burning we have to walk around the fields again with water tanks on our backs. To put some of the fire out if it gets to bad. Sometimes if you are lucky you get to ride a four wheeler around instead of walking.

Than the real fun starts in August. We start raking and it is very hard work. We don't have the best fields so in a day you can rake maybe ten boxes. There just is not a lot of blue berries, but a big field and you can't leave any berries behind. Our boxes are five gallon bucket's and it takes a long time to fill on all the way up. Than when you have to carry the bucket back to the end of the field with out spilling it. We have spilled many of them and nothing makes you more mad than final getting a bucket filled and than spilling it.

At the end of the day you have to dump the buckets of blue berries into boxes that the factors give you. If you have done this with out spilling it ever where you are doing good. When all the buckets are into boxes you have to write down who had what and how many boxes of blue berries. Than you load the boxes of blue berries up in the truck and bring them to the factors. Our work is almost done for the day the last thing is you have to unload the blue berries boxes onto a scale to see what the weight is. You get paid by the weight so you want a lot of weight, but when you are carrying the boxes you don't want the weight. You get tired of moving when the weight is high.


At the end of the day who does not like a little bit of hard work. I will say it is getting easier because we can make the younger kids do the harder work and sit back and tell them what to do. The blue berries come every year in August along with the hard work. We might not get a lot of berries but we still rake them every year. I always like to help my parents, when I can. My parents don't pay me for helping them, but I really don't get to help them a lot only on the weekends. If you ever need to find me in August you will now where to look on the weekends, I will be in the blue berry fields. Having fun, but now I get to bring my girls down and have them start raking, they do more eating than anything.