Eric Salop
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Thanks Bups, your expert advice much appreciated. :thumbsup:
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Thanks Bups, your expert advice much appreciated. :thumbsup:
toppop52
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When I was a kid in northeastern NC, we use to sit under the walnut trees in the backyard,they fell while the weather was still warm to hot in the fall. We'd sit in lawn chairs with the beach umbrella over us.
Warm and cloudy again today, upper 50's. Rain tomorrow, big nor'easter on Sunday/Monday, likely beach erosion.
Warm and cloudy again today, upper 50's. Rain tomorrow, big nor'easter on Sunday/Monday, likely beach erosion.
toppop52
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a much cooler 41 going to 57 today with a major washout planned for this weekend, heavy rain predicted
20 years for pecans Billy? I'm not going to make it that long....
I know, I need to find the pecan variety labeled Plug And Play. They always work right away....not
Aahh Eric, the sweet burned smell of chestnuts roasting in a street cart on a cold winter day in Philadelphia, or New York City. Probably Baltimore and Boston too...did we learn this little treat from your neck of the woods? Further West, do they roast chestnuts in the city streets? Mostly, any in St. Louis? Such a distinctive smell to greet you when you walked outside of a downtown building on a cold day. Toppop and others, I bet we have all enjoyed roasted chestnuts on a street corner. Well, tried them...
Me? I didn't like them at all...tried several times, kind of mushy, sweetish, prefer to stick with other nuts, and I love nuts. My late wife was deathly allergic to nuts so for 15 years I could eat none, couldn't kiss her afterwards, made that mistake only once. Having one's wife look at you with giant rubbery lips and a swollen face was enough so that I never forgot that again... But now...I always have nuts at home, usually roasted almonds. Chestnuts are neat though, I grow lots of things I don't eat myself, like hot peppers. One of the prettiest things in my garden are hot peppers and I can't eat one of them. Zero problem giving peppers away though.
I don't like figs either, but I think I might plant a row of fig trees also. They grow very well here.
having said all this not sure chestnuts grow in a warm coastal climate. I know they grow up North. Here's what the local good nursery stocks, so it's probably what grows here. This list reminds me to replant the three sour cherry trees I bought that did not make it. I'll try one more time since cherry trees are on the list. A home made sour cherry pie in my mind is just pure nirvana.
Grapes
Berries (Strawberry, Blueberry, Rasberry, Blackberry)
Figs
Persimmon
Apple
Pear
Peach
Nectarine
Cherry
Pecan
Walnut
I never saw roasted chestnuts in Elizabeth City or Norfolk, as a kid. Not here in Salisbury, either, but then downtown has been dead for 35 years, maybe in Baltimore. Not a fan anyway.
PJSprog
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41°F and light rain this morning, going up to 46° today.
Speaking of the generosity of squirrels ... this past fall we got a grand total of 10 nuts from our two shagbark hickory trees. This is exactly 10 more than we've gotten in several years. Apparently, tree rats also understand how sought-after these nuts are. Also not an easy shell to crack, but worth it when lightly roasted. A seriously delicious nut.
Speaking of the generosity of squirrels ... this past fall we got a grand total of 10 nuts from our two shagbark hickory trees. This is exactly 10 more than we've gotten in several years. Apparently, tree rats also understand how sought-after these nuts are. Also not an easy shell to crack, but worth it when lightly roasted. A seriously delicious nut.
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300UGUY
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Thanks for the good thoughts on the injury. I am thinking of going to the ER this afternoon. It hurts like ****, especially if I cough or worse, sneeze. Plus I hurt just getting up out of a chair, and I can't sleep on my left side. I took a pain pill last night, it let me sleep, but I figure I need to get it looked at. Might as well start working on that insurance co pay. 
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300UGUY
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Eric is there any possibility that the rail folks will pay for a new tarmac? My neighbors got there private road seriously upgraded when a garbage truck ran off the road into a swamp. The truck pretty much disappeared into the muck. Only one corner was sticking up, and nobody could get into their home for over a week. To recover the truck, they had to build a pad, bring in a crane, and many loads of rock.
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300UGUY
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When we bought my wife's building, the squirrels had gotten into the building, and we had hundreds of nuts in the basement ceiling. Even a couple of dead squirrels. Nasty cleaning that out. The nuts were all from a walnut tree in the front of the building.
Kyle_in_Tex
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300 I hope it is just some pulled muscles or something that will heal without too much.
PJ, hope you can talk some sense into your son.
PJ, hope you can talk some sense into your son.
PJSprog
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He's my stepson, so there's that little barrier. I've been around for 13 of his 17 years, though ... more than his father, unfortunately. Speaking of whom ... his father came over last night and took his truck back. We learned that a similar stunt was pulled on a couple of occasions at his house as well. That was not a pleasant conversation to witness. The boy put more passion and emotion into trying to not lose that truck than any endeavor I've seen from him. Wish he cared even half that much for more important things in life (family, relationships, school, ...).
toppop52
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They make great slingshot ammo too!