Date Farms

Just past the Palm Springs turn off, we passed several date palm farms. I learned that the trees have ladders going up the tree for the pickers to get to the dates, but the trees are too close together to use a cherry picker or anything.
David agreed that I shouldn't drive- it pretty stressful with traffic and a fairly good wind rocking the trailer. Makes me shudder to think about being behind the wheel!
We are headed up a hill, so we turned off the A/C and even at 7am you can feel the heat pouring in. It's 88 outside already!
I also heard a story about how the hotel that Granny Jannie grew up in was demo'd by David's dad when David was little and the wood repurposed for David's fort in the backyard. Love this family time.