Surviving Minnesota!

[lvie]

Quote: I concede - the EE is a little sweetheart and you are a big cuddly (your wife says) sweetheart Ralphie. LOL

 

[KlopKlop]

You guys wanted more photos of my 'could be' EE so here you go. she is in the front center. Her pattern is actually quite a bit different than the SS

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I still say EE kloppers.

When I lived on the farm in SE Minnesota we had some huge black walnut trees. They were all the way at the end of our farm drive. Next to the last shed where my parents dumped their non burnables behind this shed and the gate to the fields/pasture was. I still remember them vividly with their fleshy skins that would stain your fingers. My grandpa would collect them as they dropped and take them to his house-sacks of them- and spend the winter shelling them. Putting them in jars and then freezing the nuts. Mom would but them in her brownies. So good.
Saw some turkey hunting down by the south branch of white water state park also a few years back. A person should go collect some. I think grandpa would get them picked up late fall. Does that sound right?

 

[Violetsfeathers]

I still say EE kloppers.

When I lived on the farm in SE Minnesota we had some huge black walnut trees. They were all the way at the end of our farm drive. Next to the last shed where my parents dumped their non burnables behind this shed and the gate to the fields/pasture was. I still remember them vividly with their fleshy skins that would stain your fingers. My grandpa would collect them as they dropped and take them to his house-sacks of them- and spend the winter shelling them. Putting them in jars and then freezing the nuts. Mom would but them in her brownies. So good.
Saw some turkey hunting down by the south branch of white water state park also a few years back. A person should go collect some. I think grandpa would get them picked up late fall. Does that sound right?

I had black walnut trees in Iowa before we moved here. Hated them. They were hard on the lawn mower so we raked them up and burned them. Occasionally a neighbor would come and take some but there were way too many. One time we even had a black walnut fight with the neighbor kids. Yes they fall off the trees in the fall and that's when you collect them.

 

[KlopKlop]

We have several walnut trees (white walnut I think?) and I have to pick up the nuts every fall or my wife sends them zinging from the mower. She isn't the most attentive of what goes under the deck....

 

[jerryse]

We have several walnut trees (white walnut I think?) and I have to pick up the nuts every fall or my wife sends them zinging from the mower. She isn't the most attentive of what goes under the deck....

White walnut also known as butternut .

 

[duluthralphie]

White walnut also known as butternut .

My uncle had butternut trees about 5 miles from here, but he was on heavier soil too.


Calling "Windstream" was a treat! When I dialed their number I got 10 minutes of Ads, then they just hung up. It took my wife and I a half hour to just hear a human voice.

 

[KlopKlop]

@duluthralphie I wait with bated breathe for your judgement of my 'could be' EE!

 

[KlopKlop]

I still say EE kloppers.

When I lived on the farm in SE Minnesota we had some huge black walnut trees. They were all the way at the end of our farm drive. Next to the last shed where my parents dumped their non burnables behind this shed and the gate to the fields/pasture was. I still remember them vividly with their fleshy skins that would stain your fingers. My grandpa would collect them as they dropped and take them to his house-sacks of them- and spend the winter shelling them. Putting them in jars and then freezing the nuts. Mom would but them in her brownies. So good.
Saw some turkey hunting down by the south branch of white water state park also a few years back. A person should go collect some. I think grandpa would get them picked up late fall. Does that sound right?

I learned the hard way last fall about the staining power of peeling the skins from the walnuts. I was curious if they looked different inside than black walnuts.

I may try harvesting and curing some this year to eat. Just got too busy last fall for the ones I had picked

 

[jerryse]

It has got to 85 the last 2 days . Predicted 83 today . I hide from the heat from 1-5 . Just too hot for me . Age is telling on me . Got my first egg from the EE Seabright pullet yesterday . Nice blue color . I think I will let her keep her eggs . Maybe she will set . Trips coming up so incubator is not a option . The Seabright rooster was not hen feathered and had rose / single comb genetics .So I have a pea / single comb cockerel and the hen is rose / single comb . A percentage should get pea / rose combo = cushion comb .