HAPPY FATHERS DAY POPS! • Let me tell you a story about Gerry Trepanier. • When he met my mother at age 19, they had nothing, and picked strawberries for 25 cents a quart. • Gerry went on to work 35 years at the Chrysler auto plant in Windsor – an hour drive from the farm where he lived. During those 35 years Gerry simultaneously farmed up to 700 acres of soybeans, corn and wheat. • This is two full-time jobs. Three, if you include the non-stop equipment maintenance that is necessary with farming big acreage. • During planting and harvest seasons, when the fields were finally dry and ready, Gerry would leave for work at 530am, work 7am-3pm in the auto plant, get home at 4pm, then work the fields from 5pm-3am. He would eat all of his meals in the truck or the tractor, and sleep for 2 hours if he was lucky. Many days, if something broke (which it almost always did), Gerry didn’t sleep at all. • This guy worked 120 hours/week, with his hands (which have become legendarily rough mitts), to support his family and give them an opportunity at a better life. • So when people call me a “hard-worker”, I can only laugh and brush it off with my soft e-commerce hands. • #FathersDay #FarmersFeedCities #GerryTrepanier #ArticlesofStyle (at St. Joachim) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byx8iorFlb5/?igshid=6k8cv468j8qa
