One of my cherished memories of my dad’s parents was sitting around the kitchen table with them, shelling pecans. We would do this ritual every Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation (for Easter, it was sticking the Green Stamps into the booklets. If you don’t know what this is, ask someone wrinkled). We are still nuts for shelling pecans at my house, …
The Big Tree
The Big Tree has limbs that are so heavy they touch the ground. It worries me that they could split off in a big wind or a rain that lades the branches more. They are heavy with pecans, and otherwise the tree looks quite happy. We have had a pair of local certified master naturalists come and look; they referred …