Eastport Community Notes, October 13

In exchange for working on Columbus Day we get the day after Thanksgiving off. This is okay with me because I’d rather have four days off in a row. Columbus Day at work is usually a quiet day—no mail, no banking. People are out picking apples and pumpkins or sipping wine on the North Fork, not calling us for appointments or emergencies. But this year with the return of summer in mid-October I kind of wish I was the one on the North Fork sipping wine and picking out pumpkins. I say picking out pumpkins because there is no more picking pumpkins; they are already picked for you. I find this kind of odd because technically it’s called pumpkin picking. Just saying …

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