I wish I had been posting all summer long, because this activity has been going on (in one form or another) since strawberry season in June. 

Harvesting.

Owen has found it thrilling, all summer, to go and find the fresh fruits and vegetables that each part of the season yielded.  We have a little strawberry patch that he went to daily.  Once they were gone it was blueberry season and we were able to pick from our few bushes.  Once those were gone the garden was producing cucumbers.  Then, the creme de la creme, tomatoes.  Actually, it’s hard to say if they tomatoes trumped the blueberries.  

Now that summer’s over and the garden is pretty blah we’ve turned our attention to hickory nuts.  In the years prior to Owen all I’ve ever done is rake them up and shovel them (literally) into a trailer for disposal.  Now that I am always looking for something interesting to do (and on the advice of a friend who said they tasted great), and in keeping with the spirit of harvesting we’ve decided to pick up nuts.

It’s been great fun.  Owen has learned how to open the outsides and get the nuts out.  He’ll put them into the container of the day (or he’ll dump out what I’ve collected). We’ve collected a couple thousand I bet, We have so many now that I’ve resumed dumping them into piles so I can pick them up when it’s leave raking time. 

He still walks around saying ‘nut, nut’ and pointing to the door.  We’ll go out, and we’ll poke around for fun, but we don’t bring in any more nuts.