You may have to get out there and direct traffic, pointing them to the walnuts. Or maybe you have blind squirrels this year and they can't see them. <g> Emma ----- Original Message ----- From: askgranny@juno.com<mailto:askgranny@juno.com> To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com<mailto:southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Economy;/stockpiling I'm with you ! Theres an ad in the local paper that they are paying $10.00 per hundred pounds after they are shelled....If the kids and all picked up walnuts they could make a tidy bit. You can rake them up in a pile, scoop them into gunny sacks. Some folks around here do it every year...LOTS of them this year...A young tree down by the garden is bearing for the first time as far as I know, and is loaded down with nuts....The one that volunteered up out behind our storage shed has huge walnuts on it...and taste good , too....My flower beds are littered with seedlings....Guess we have forgetful squirrels....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:33:00 -0700 "Peace Roses" <Roses4831@msn.com<mailto:Roses4831@msn.com>> writes: > Back in the early 50's, before we had any kids, my husband's distant > (and I do mean distant) cousin had just got married and we were > friends. They were saying they couldn't find work and his car was > broke down. This was in the fall. Both my husband and I were > working. I worked day shift and my husband worked swing shift. We > had taken them a sack of groceries once and maybe twice just to help > out. So they could have an income, my husband told his cousin that > since it was walnut picking time, I would take them out to the > fields in the morning and pack them a sack lunch, and I would go > back and pick them up after I got off work. We realized they > wouldn't get rich but they would have some money coming in. His > cousin told him he would rather starve then pick up walnuts. My > husband said then they could starve. He told me I wasn't to take > any more groceries to them. When we were first married and moved to > Oregon, we picked beans to have an income so my husband didn't see! > anything wrong with them doing some work too. > > Emma > > ____________________________________________________________ Fast Computer Training. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mAUC15KNlxDkhJxKjiJaNjY7NqoDDEe9waAhtoorf2zqrC0/<http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mAUC15KNlxDkhJxKjiJaNjY7NqoDDEe9waAhtoorf2zqrC0/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message