OK. Things are looking up I hope.

[LuckyCharms]

Just spent about 90 minutes blowing leaves and my spine hasn't turned to dust yet. We'll see what happens.

It could have been a mistake to do that...we'll see.

Black Walnut and Silver Maple. Tons of leaves.

I like fall, because the wasps disappear, and the air is crisp and invigorating.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

1. Here's hoping, LuckyCharms!

You just can't seem to sit still.

[LuckyCharms]

2. I've sat still for weeks now!

Thought I would fuse into my recliner...

Feels good to get some movement.

You have a nice day, some_of_us_are_sane.

[justaprogressive]

3. Easy does it..

here's hopin!

[JMCKUSICK]

4. You'll pay lol, but sometimes the price is worth it.

Crisp and invigorating is always worth it! Have fun and be careful.

[Harker]

5. I was blowing leaves yesterday.

I got so badly winded that I thought I was going to faint.

[LuckyCharms]

6. You're supposed to use a leaf blower, Harker.

Call me next time before you do something like that.

[Harker]

7. Dammit, Lucky...

I'd better had.

[True Dough]

8. Yeah,

keep that in mind for your next birthday cake too. Leaf blower for the candles, not huffing and puffing!

[LuckyCharms]

9. You're supposed to eat the candles.

[True Dough]

11. I'll keep that in mind

But right now, I'm too full of paint chips to even think about it!

[LuckyCharms]

12. I eat crayons.

I save the green ones for special occasions.

Like birthdays.

[True Dough]

17. Not too sure about Crayons

But I'm pretty sure you cray-cray!

[2MuchNoise]

18. Alright, you all have me LOLing!

[True Dough]

20. LOL?

League of Legends?

Lots of love?

Let's order linguini?

[LuckyCharms]

24. It stands for "You only live once"...

I think.

No wait, that's YOLO.

LOL...let's see...

Life Is Good?

Shit, that's not it...let me think about this.

Your post reminded me of something...one of my friends gave me a horrid nickname that stuck for a few years. "Linguini Balls".

[True Dough]

25. Linguini Balls???

Then perhaps LOL stands for "Lick our lumps."

[LuckyCharms]

26. Jesus Christ.

[True Dough]

27. Niagara will appreciate this one. Hope she sees it!

[LuckyCharms]

30. She'll like the googly eyes!

[Niagara]

43. Eye-conic!!

Such vision!


SPEC-tacular!


Eye'm trying to remember what other overused words we're not suppose to use but I can't focus.

[True Dough]

50. Maybe

Jeez-eyes Christ, our lord and visionary.

[Niagara]

51. Oh, that's a good one!

[True Dough]

28. Duplicate

Pretend it didn't happen.

[LuckyCharms]

31. Too late. I've alerted on this.

[True Dough]

33. Tattle-tale!

I should spill the beans on how you...

You know.

[LuckyCharms]

36. Tattle-tale

LOL means tattle-tale?

[True Dough]

37. No, alerting on posts

means tattle-tale.

LOL means "Leash our love"

[LuckyCharms]

38. This isn't the first time...

I've seen the word "leash" in one of your posts.

What's up with that?

[True Dough]

39. I think this one would suit you, Lucky

Do you like it?

[LuckyCharms]

40. I don't know.

Why is it perched on a dish?

Also, it looks too small...

[True Dough]

41. You're right

then this one it is:

[LuckyCharms]

42. I'm laughing here.

[LuckyCharms]

19. Thanks. That GIF made me have a seizure.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. Very happy to hear this.

Onward and upward.

[multigraincracker]

13. Best you can.......

Keep moving.

[NNadir]

14. Black walnuts are simply magnificent trees.

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I had to have one taken down when my septic failed. It broke my heart, although honestly, it was very close to my house and a hazard to my house in a hurricane.

It had a diameter of close to a meter. (I saved the wood, but never managed to get it milled.)

I remember when my boys were small, gathering up the walnuts, our hands getting stained orange with jugalone. The nuts themselves were hard to get to, but man, they were delicious. They are also extremely healthy since they are one of only three life forms on the planet that can synthesize eicosopentenoic acid, the active ingredient in fish oil. (The others are algae - which accounts for the presence in fish oil, and humans, but only lactating humans; it is an important constituent of breast milk, and may account for the neurological and intellectual benefits of breast feeding.)

It's good, my friend, to see you up and about, among the trees. My wife told me last night that an acquaintance of hers had episodes of severe nonspecific pain sometimes requiring hospitalization, generally untouched even by opioids. I mentioned that I knew, electronically, someone with that same awful syndrome.

My wife mused that perhaps it is a post covid syndrome. Polio can be like that, and perhaps covid can be the same. My mother-in-law, one of the last polio victims in the United States often faced extreme pain related to post polio syndrome. Since there were so few polio victims left, most doctors were unaware that the syndrome existed and was very real. (Happily my father-in-law was a doctor.)

[LuckyCharms]

15. NNadir...

Thanks so much for your kind words.

What's so strange about whatever this is...not only do opioids not touch this kind of pain, they make it worse. It's so strange.

Your tree was a meter at the base? If you have a good height on that, you have some very valuable wood, as you know. My tree is only about 20-26 inches in diameter at the base, the trunk rises about three feet from the ground, and then splits off into two separate trunks. I tried to sell the tree for the wood, but even though it's a large tree, the dimensions are not suitable to make black walnut veneer, so I couldn't find anyone who wanted it.

We will probably have to get ours cut down unfortunately because it is too close to the neighbors garage. I've received one quote so far for $1,500, including stump grinding.

The tree was very fruitful this year, and we were having trouble picking up all of the nuts, so I got one of these, and it worked like a charm.



I'm very sorry to read about you mother-in-law.

[LoisB]

16. Here's hoping. Patience.

[Clouds Passing]

21. Love black walnut trees but very messy. Black Walnuts are excellent for health.

Glad you’re back is better 😁 Mine is too, overdid it on the lower back stretching.

[LuckyCharms]

22. I'm glad you are feeling better!

Yep, they are messy as hell. One year, there was a big fly strike on the ones on the ground and they all were loaded with maggots. I had about 15 Home Depot buckets loaded up with them, gagging the whole time i was picking them up.

You take care of yourself, Clouds.

[Clouds Passing]

23. Aw disgusting 🤮

You take care too LC 🩵🍀🌙💥

[gademocrat7]

29. You are amazing, Lucky!

Take care💙

[LuckyCharms]

32. Until you meet me in person!

But thank you!

You take care too!

[CrispyQ]

34. When I was a little girl my grandfather would take his grands down to the local creamery & buy us ice cream cones.

I'd always get black walnut. It was soooo good. Years later when I started baking, I was surprised to find out regular walnuts don't taste anything like black walnuts. I've never seen black walnuts in my store.

Fall is my favorite season, too. 🍂🍂🍂 Hope your back is forgiving!

[LuckyCharms]

35. That sounds so good!

And thank you!

[Niagara]

44. I hope that getting outside working on leaves helped you out a bit

I went out to rake leaves earlier and I got a nice back cavitation out of it.

[LuckyCharms]

45. I'm sorry Dear Niagara...

You be careful and take care of yourself.

[Niagara]

46. Don't be sorry, Lucky

When this happens to me it means that things are snapping back into place where they belong.


It's a feeling of relief.

[LuckyCharms]

48. Sorry, I misunderstood.

I'm not sure what a cavitation is. I'll look it up!

[Niagara]

49. It's okay

It's just the harmless but audible cracking sounds that my back and neck joints make.

[peacebuzzard]

47. I like to see the flying pests disappear too

I sure hope you feel no pain tonight.
Yup; I like it when the wasps and mosquitoes and flies disappear but I dread the dropping temperatures. I love and miss the warm sun god for a few months.
But flies and wasps I feel no missing them at all.

[electric_blue68]

52. 🤞 Been on several wild food walks in Manhattan, and Queens parks...

So had 1 or 2 black walnuts in the '80s we got from Central Park. Rough-ish, green husks, right?

[LuckyCharms]

53. Yes, that's right!

Green, and a little smaller than a tennis ball.

I have a niece that has lived in both Park slope and Bushwick, Brooklyn.

I loved visiting her.

[electric_blue68]

54. Yay, I remembered right!.... I used to walk 7th Ave in Park Slope starting from Flatbush Ave...

Some very cool craft, and jewelry shops then, and a yarn store. A school yard flea market at times. Did about 1/2 mile each way.
Oh, and for a while a nice Mexican restaurant I'd get a tasty half, or a quarter ancho roasted chicken, w ?salsa. (But no fried crickets for me! Eeeee.)

I lived about 2-ish blocks east of Flatbush next to Park Slope about 2001 - 2009. Prospect Heights.
I also walked in the other direction to Grand Army Plaza, part of Prospect Park, and before the park - their wonderful, big Central Library! And also past the library to Brooklyn Botanical Garden a bunch of times a year Spring, Summer.

[LuckyCharms]

55. Yay! This all sounds very familiar to me!

I have not been there in years. I'm from upstate NY, and the first time I went I was amazed. Brooklyn is a lot different than where I'm from!

[electric_blue68]

56. Oh, cool! As a later kid/tween we were up at the Finger Lakes, Watkins Glen, Howes Caverns, Herkimer...

NY for Herkimer "diamonds" (double terminated quart), and The Aiderondaks in the summer.

Some video, or set of photos w article about things allowed in the ?'50s, '60s 😄 mentioned the ?ski lifts in the summer and ?no safety bar across the seat!
We went up, don't remember if it had one (well, 2 since it was a double seater).

While I have special affection for the high desert of northern Arizona; the sculptural rocks, the various colors in sands, clays, and rocks etc - NYS is a verdant joy of greenery.

[LuckyCharms]

57. !

I used to ski at Greek Peak near Cortland NY. The first time I ever did so, I was freaked out with the chairlifts with no safety bar. WTF is this?

I go to Ithaca a lot. My wife is a Cornell grad, so that brings back good memories for her. Ithaca is at the base of Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes.

Like it says on the bumper sticker "Ithaca is Gorges".