All of my pilots are based within ten minutes flight time of all of the orchards in their area so they can get to orchards quickly and get from one orchard to the next quickly. My goal is to get a helicopter over an orchard as quickly as possible, so I dispatch based on pilot location and availability. When it rains, I dispatch pilots, including myself, to service the orchards we get calls for. I don’t assign specific orchards to specific pilots. We work together - all of us know all of the orchards in our area. So I hire other pilots with helicopters to work with me, as part of my team, to get the job done. I fly as a pilot over the orchards I’m contracted to cover.ĭuring the busiest time of the season - usually mid June to mid July - I have overlapping contracts that make it impossible for me to cover all the acreage alone if rain is widespread. I work directly with them or their orchard managers to learn the orchards and fly them. Let me set things straight from the start: I have cherry drying contracts with orchard owners. My helicopter, parked in a cherry orchard in 2009. I’ll probably invite her to visit in July. I don’t want stress in my life anymore, so I asked the reporter to wait. I’ll do a video for that and another one for my finished deck very soon.īy the way, if you’re wondering about my punchlist deadline and the Good Life article, it’s been pushed back. The bedroom isn’t quite ready to be revealed I think I need to rearrange the furniture and I’d like very much to get the closet organizer and doors installed. How did I live for two years without it?Īnyway, I put together this video for a new tour of my great room and kitchen. It’s the little things that make a space a home.Īs for the bedroom - well, I’d forgotten how amazingly comfortable my bed is. I now regularly listen to music from an old iPod through the stereo system. I had the TV and “home theater” system set up the next day and watched a DVD the evening after that. ![]() I have to admit that it was nice to have a sofa to lounge on at the end of the day. When they were gone, I spent some time cleaning up before some weekend guests arrived. I’m not the only one glad to have a sofa to lounge on. When faced with a choice between an organic yogurt and the Chobani I usually buy, they’d pick the organic, likely without even reading the label beyond the word “organic.” That word, which the manufacturer has paid a premium to the FDA to use, is shorthand, in their minds, for “healthy.” (No scientifically conducted test has shown a difference in nutritional value between organic and non-organic food.) They think that the industrial farming methods that make it possible to feed millions of people cost effectively are unsafe or even evil. (Certain chemicals are allowed in organic food production.) They think organic means healthier. These are the people who buy organic produce, sometimes paying three to ten times the price of non-organic produce. In their minds, if it’s not organic, it’s not healthy. You have to understand that many of my friends are organic food snobs. It doesn’t need pectin, corn starch, locust bean gum, or added vitamins. Remember, yogurt = milk + active yogurt cultures. The ingredient list in one organic yogurt was so offensive that I took a picture of it. Good thing that locust bean gum is organic. Pectin was especially popular - nearly every yogurt contained it. Yet there they were in the ingredients list. While it’s common for Greek yogurt makers to fake Greek yogurt by adding thickeners, I didn’t expect yogurt makers to add unnecessary ingredients to regular yogurt. I looked at labels and was absolutely shocked by the additives I found in some. One more step - draining off a good portion of the liquid whey - is what turns regular yogurt into thick Greek yogurt. It involves heating the milk, cooling the milk partway, adding the cultures, and holding the temperature until curds form. Yogurt, in case you’re wondering, is milk with active yogurt cultures added. ![]() I didn’t need Greek yogurt for my smoothies, but I did need it to be plain, fat-free yogurt - and nothing else. So I was in the dairy section of the supermarket, checking out brands I’d never really looked at before. At $5+/quart, the Chobani gets costly quickly when you go through a few quarts a week. I figured that if I could find an inexpensive brand, it wouldn’t be worth the trouble of making it myself anymore. Although I usually make my yogurt, I’ve been so busy with work around my home and cherry season chores that I figured I’d make things easy on myself and just buy a quart or two. I’ve been drinking a lot of smoothies lately and I wanted an inexpensive alternative to the Chobani greek yogurt I usually buy. I was looking for yogurt in the supermarket the other day. Just wish it wasn’t so damn expensive since I eat so much of it.
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