Cutting onions and planting, suckering, weeding, and planting corn, picking strawberries, bucking bales, and the pea harvest kept me busy from 12-15.
One time I started driving a pea vine spreader truck, for 36 hours straight when I was 14.
This was not unusual for the time in in the Walla Walla. There were no child labor laws. I liked to work and make money for clothes and spending money during the school year.
