Future Farmers of Leromrigòth

[barnabas_truman]

This isn't really important enough to go in the fortress logbook, but it's too cute not to mention somewhere:

The farm had a huge crop of sunberries ready for the picking, but the farmers were busy planting more seeds in the other farm, so I changed the settings from "only farmers harvest" to "all dwarves harvest," then went elsewhere to take care of some other business.

When I next looked at the farm I saw the farm area filled with 13 of the fortress's 20 dwarf children: presumably, having nothing better to do, they decided to scurry through the access tunnel, giggling all the way, grab a handful of sunberries each, and race back to the food stockpile to dump them into barrels.

Hazel comments that in the real world this sort of "harvesting" typically ends with barrels no fuller than they were before, children not hungry for dinner, and little shirts and faces covered in sunberry juice.

Comments

[whalejudge.livejournal.com]

Well, now you're forewarned about children and berry patches for your own offspring. Whenever they happen.

[barnabas-truman.livejournal.com]

Gandalf Truman, Child, cancels Steal Sunberries: Interrupted by Dad.

[groblek.livejournal.com]

See, in my family, the incentive was that if we brought in enough berries, mom would make pie - we still ate a largish chunk of the ones we "harvested", but that ensured that we tried to make the quote to bring home. :)