I spent some time today gathering nuts, some of you have had them in my special recipe brownies over the years.
75 gallons ready to be hulled, and another 100 or so pounds already hulled and drying. Gotta remember and flip these sacks every other day for a few weeks.
When they dry out around the baby Jesus birthday we’ll start shucking them.
There’s a few things left in the garden, late cool wx stuff like cabbage, collards, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and a ton of butter beans the frost missed under all the late foliage.
We really enjoyed it. Pretty busy but everything flowed well. Had 2 good live music stages going. Got to see a healthy black bear on our descent. He was in the clearing right under the ski lift.
I was enjoying the Summit lager and the Mrs had a Blackberry cider. Very tasty.
The peak in the center, just above the building, is Clingmans Dome, iirc. 6600’ elevation, I think. It’s now called Kuwohi, Cherokee for “Place of mulberries”.
I know Clingmans Dome, you can see 7 states from there, really.
When I was a kid , maybe 5 or 6 years old, we had walked to the top of the observation deck at Clingmans and I got my very first lesson on environmental protection. Me and my sister were throwing folded paper airplanes off the top and the ranger asked us what would happen if everyone did that? Then he took a sheet of loose leaf paper from us, folded a plane of his own, and launched it just like we did.
About 30 minutes later all 3 of us had retrieved all of our planes and I took a lifelong lesson home that day.
