Nuts

These are two of my pecan trees. The bare naked one has dropped nearly all its leaves to display an almost frightening crop o'nuts up there. The problem is that these nuts are not very saleable. They are not the tiny wild pecans, but they aren't very big and their shells are hard. The nuts have a high oil content and a good flavor, but they are just too hard to shell. In other words they are a nuisance. The tree with all the yellow leaves has already dropped some beautiful nuts but there aren't too many of them.
The yard was a foot deep in leaves when I came back from my camping trip. I rake them into big heaps then I dance on them. I used to be embarrassed to do this, but it works. I can compact a huge heap of leaves into a smaller heap of broken up leaves. Then I drag industrial sized plastic sacks of leaves to the road and people come and get them. Someone named Hal came and took them yesterday. He asked if he could take me too as I looked like a good worker. Then he rambled on about moving to Uruguay as the Northern Hemisphere is about ready to collapse into chaos and was I interested in therapeutic biofeedback? He also told me a dentist in Texas had the cure for all cancers. I think it was baby pancreatic cells or something. I told him it sounded a little snake oily to me and resumed my work.

Went to see Borat. I had already heard all the funny bits on the radio. Unlike just about everyone else I think the Ordinary Folks who agreed to be in the movie aquitted themselves quite well. The rodeo audience cheered for Our Fighting Men and Women, but became uneasy when Borat advocated toasting every man woman and child in Iraq and leaving it a hundred year wasteland. The frat boys threw Borat out of their trailer with heartfelt assurances that he would be fine because he was in the US of A and I thought they were probably right about that. I give it my OK rating which means 'well if you have nothing else to do...'

There's a brand new truck stop in the village. It has a steak house type restaurant with real white tablecloths and twenty dollar steaks. What are they thinking??