On the road to Aidric's school, the university 'driveway' is lined by farmland. It's about a one mile drive from the main road to the campus and the drive is bordered by strawberry fields. lemon groves and, new this season, raspberry canes. The fields were planted in rows and then every three rows of canes is covered by a greenhouse armature and plastic and each entire field of these greenhouses is walled or fenced by a black tarp-like material on poles. These 'fences' are really more like curtain walls that can be raised or lowered to allow or disrupt air flow. Anyway, I don't really know much about the why of any of these procedures, but....
...one day I noticed these red spray painted markings in various places along the black 'fence'. These markings are numbers and the word 'pies'.
300 pies? Would that be raspberry pies? How many pies you can make per greenhouse? Well that's just stupid, what a bizarre way of measuring assets....
No you moron not pies, 'pies' - in spanish..... See in spanish 'pies' means feet. 300 feet. Still don't know to what the measurement refers but thank goodness it's not actually pies.....
