A lot of wind and rain over night with a low temperature of 53 degrees and a high today of 69 degrees.  We ordered some tamales from the Imperial Date Gardens yesterday and went there about 1:00 PM to pick them up. While we were there there was a tour starting so we went on it.  We learned some interesting things.  The first date palms were brought to the United States in 1927 when they were being threatened by disease in Morocco.  The first in the Bard Valley was in 1944.  Most of the trees are female that bear the fruit.  Mature trees bear about 250# of dates. They are pollinated by hand from circular platforms on lifts.  They have two freezers that each hold 1.5 million pounds of dates.  They don't usually pit the dates, only when requested on large wholesale orders.  When they do pit them, 10 workers can pit a pallet of 2,500# in about 3 hours.  They ship ship all over the world. In about three years the Bard Valley will be the largest producer of Medjool dates in the world. We stopped at the post office and then went back to the motor home.  I watched the Nascar Nationwide race.  We had sausages, baked potatos and brussels sprouts for dinner.  After dinner we watched the Olympics. 

 

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