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next to the valve that turns on water to B Garden.   Second time in a week or so.   These pine cones are the size of medium pineapples.   Big.   they are tough,  woody fiber.   at the base of the ….oh,  eeeee,  i have no words …i need to research….but at the base of each segment are the pine nuts.  You can see the torn off segments  and then the oval shells of the pine nuts,   the FOOD.  Food also for the indigenous peoples here.   Food for Emrie, maybe.   Emrie's child.    or Emrie's child's   child.  should that come to pass.   Pine nuts …what we BUY to make Pesto.    or…in New Mex,  Pinion.   Searching for a gathered cache of pinion nuts,  gathered by animals….stolen.

but 

who does this here?   i suppose it is the squirrels…but they are not large squirrels…small Grey…?  if not tho,  who?   It's an enormous lot of work.   i might think porcupine,  but probably not,  they being rare now.  So probably the squirrel.  How amazing.  The concentration,  the ENERGY,   the persistence….like….BIG….

what you do when you are hungry

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10 responses to “when eating is Work”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    a most interesting form … and I wonder what it feels like, what it smells like … the senses it would engage

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    I was reminded of the squirrels in our garden in CA: we had a large veggie garden. One morning I looked out the window and I saw two squirrels staggering about as if they were drunk. In each of their little paws was a large brandywine tomato, so large that it seemed to take up 1/3 of their bodies. After a bit, the tomatoes were lowered to the ground and the squirrels proceeded to chomp away…. Hunger can make mighty and in CA, there are are some mighty gourmet eating squirrels!!

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  3. Deb G Avatar

    Squirrels have very strong teeth. I’ve looked at the pine cones in my garden a time or too, wondering if I could get the pine nuts…

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  4. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Amazing the persistence to get to those nuts! I love a quick meal but truly relish the meals that take time to prepare and savor the end result. I was eating pistachios in the shell last night when a commercial came on for bags of Shelled pistashios.. I thought how much more I prefer to work for the nut! And my mind thought I will need to go see how they are harvested to that in the shell point of sale, how do they really grow? So.. on to that google now!!

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  5. Nancy Avatar

    My mind heard the old commercial “Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible” Indeed.

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  6. grace Forrest Avatar

    pine. intense. but the nut…delicious

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar

    so far…knock on wood…the Garden remains except for the
    pomegranate.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    they are there…and good. the pine nuts in Pinion of
    New Mexico…bigger, but these are the same. I will
    work. to get some.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    California is pistachio country. This again..another of the things that light up, the threads…..Alyssia and i have a thing lately, about
    the pistachios at the Dollar Store. Sea Salt and Vinegar
    Chili Roasted produced by Lost Hills CA
    but we love the ones in the shell…with that little
    umbilical nub
    i gave her some for her Birthday

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    ??? i don’t know that one?

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