We have had so many soul destroying things passing through our lives in this last year that have caused pain and heartache, that I have decided to look for the good in every day from now on. Much like the '100 happy days' I did in Facebook a couple of years ago, I am going to do '365 days on blogger'.
Day 1 - Pecan Nuts
We have two beautiful big pecan nut trees in our garden. The one tree was growing before we moved away and one year we were sent up a bag of nuts that were reaped from it. They were more than likely from it's very first crop, and we really did enjoy them. We didn't get any more after that year which was most disappointing, and when we asked we heard that the monkeys were enjoying them on our behalf.
So this year I have kept an eye on the tree, and there were many days that we heard the monkeys up at the top near the trees. When exercising the dogs in the afternoons, the evidence lay on the ground of opened shells and half eaten nuts but we kept looking and picking up nuts as they ripened and fell to the ground. Every morning when Johan or Wilfred feed the horses and every afternoon when I go out, we gather nuts like squirrels storing for winter.
The second tree, although younger, seems to have borne it's very first crop this year with just a few laying around for us to find. Hopefully next year it it bear more.
As we look up into the almost empty branches we see just a few still hanging on, but we are really blessed by what we have gathered so far. I haven't weighed them but I think we may have about 10kg of nuts. Enough nuts to see me through the year of baking carrot cake, pecan nut pie and Christmas Fruit cakes later in the year. Yummmmmmy....
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