Bursting out...

            I really do not say, “Bursting out”.  Since I am originally from Missouri, I say “busting out” which has a totally different meaning.

               Saturday afternoon in Hewitt, Texas was very cloudy and there was the occasional sprinkle of rain. I had noticed, earlier in the week, that our neighbor was planning a wedding to be in their back yard. They had put together an arch and Saturday afternoon they brought in chairs.

               There were predictions of rain and possible thunder storms for Saturday evening and the clouds left us with the impression it could rain anytime.    

               I checked on the process several times and even took a photo. I can only assume the

view was better from the other side.

At one point the neighbor between the Ford Homestead and the wedding party was cutting tree limbs in his back yard with a gas chain saw. I asked if he would be sawing during the wedding and he replied, “what wedding”. I pointed at the neighbor’s back yard. Luckily the wedding was not in progress. (I believe that is the first time I have typed the word luckily.)

The wedding was well attended and it did not rain. I wasn’t invited, that would have been a good opportunity to get a free meal for a retire person on a fixed income.

New subject

               We have been collecting pecans daily and now believe we have enough for a couple pecan pies. We have noticed that a few of our pecans were splitting open (see photo).

At “The Ford Institute for the preservation of Nuts” we have a noted Pecanologist , Professor J. R Walnut who answers all our questions about pecans and pecan trees.

Professor J. R Walnut teaches Pecanology at the local junior college.

If you would like to book the professor to speak at a club meeting, you can contact him through “The Ford Foundation of Hewitt, TX.”

 

               We showed the above pecans to Professor J. R Walnut and he explained. The actual nut inside the shell had continued to grow after the shell had stopped growing. This caused the shell to split open slightly exposing the fruit of the pecan. 

               Professor J. R Walnut determined that these nuts had received and unusual amount of fertilizer. He investigated the matter further and discovered the source of the fertilizer was from two retired people sitting on the drive way near the pecan tree. The two retired people were myself and our neighbor Glen.

It could be true that at times there may be an excessive amount of BS (aka fertilizer) that flows from the two of us.  

 

From the well fertilized mind of   Don Ford   

 

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