Here's one for Moxie Man.... (squirrels)

[malada]

In one of our neighbor's back yard is a butternut tree. The fruit if the tree has a green, fleshy outside with a hard nut on the inside. The inside the nut has a small amount of very sweet material. You need a pick to get it out so it's not commercially viable although it was harvested in previous centuries by the Native Americans.

Squirrels love the stuff. From the activity I've seen lately we've had a bumper crop of the furry maniacs. I've seen them in groups of four hanging out on front lawns like a gang hyped up on meth - except instead of fighting they run away. We've also had an extra large dropping of butternut fruit.

The squirrels peel away the fruit which rots and stains everything to a dark brown, then leave the hard husks everywhere.

Then last night I was closing a downstairs window - the old crank out type - and the window got stuck open.

Some furry f*cker and stashed a whole fruit on the window sill.

I think this is the year I collect all the fruit that ends up on my lawn and throw it back onto our neighbor's yard. Their tree... they can deal with the fruit.

-m

Comments

[moxie_man]

My folks told me stories of their families gathering butternuts when they were kids. The hard work to open them for the tiny nuts within and how their hands would get stained brown. You apparently need multiple trees in order to produce nuts as they can't self-pollinate

I've never seen one as they've all be cut down in my area over the years, probably by homeowners who don't want to deal with the resulting mess.