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Tangent from yours: I have a very old pecan tree in my yard that'll easily fill a couple of 5-gallon buckets. More pecans than I could possibly want in a year.

Tangent from yours: I have a very old pecan tree in my yard that'll easily fill a couple of 5-gallon buckets. More pecans than I could possibly want in a year. I thought this was great when I bought the place. Instead what I get to do is fill a couple of 5-gallon buckets with green, unripened nuts that the fucking squirrels decided to remove from the tree 2 months before they're ready. Last year I found exactly 0 viable nuts. They were all stripped off the tree before their time. I just convince myself that their happiness is my happiness. And the shade is still good.

tomcam 5y ago
Preach! We have lots and lots of blueberry bushes that are apparently here on earth only to feed deer. We've never managed to get a single blueberry. We do get a lot of beautiful deer (and coyotes, and bobcats, and raccoons, and bears).
- don-code 5y ago
  That seems accurate. I have a mulberry tree (quite tall!), and if I don't pick mulberries every morning during its 4-week fruiting time, I just end up with purple poo all over my yard instead.
danielodievich 5y ago
Many years ago during one of the big corporate training events in room of about 80 people we had a little icebreaker activity, where we had to say something interesting about ourselves that nobody else knew. I don't remember what I or anyone else said, except for one lady. She was a high powered account executive or something, but as aside, she said she owned a peach and nut orchard somewhere in California, and she had a big permanently loaded shotgun in her car to "kill the f*cking squirrels" (her exact quote) as she drove through the property because otherwise "they'd get nothing at all". Great vivid picture and great icebreaker!
- beezle 5y ago
  Growing up I lived near a Russian couple that had emigrated post revolution around the time of WWI. They had a good amount of property that they covered with various vegetables in the summer. Very industrious people. The husband despised the squirrels for ruining both his garden as well as his bird feeders. Being handy, he put one bird feeder on a metal articulating arm out the kitchen window. And then he wired it to the outside light switch. He got much joy out of flipping that switch and shocking the tree rats!
bluedino 5y ago
Grab a Gamo .177 pellet rifle. Enjoy a cup of coffee while you pick the squirrels off one by one.
tomcam 5y ago
I think there is no more beautiful tree. The shade is truly worth it.

tomcam 5y ago

Preach! We have lots and lots of blueberry bushes that are apparently here on earth only to feed deer. We've never managed to get a single blueberry. We do get a lot of beautiful deer (and coyotes, and bobcats, and raccoons, and bears).

don-code 5y ago
That seems accurate. I have a mulberry tree (quite tall!), and if I don't pick mulberries every morning during its 4-week fruiting time, I just end up with purple poo all over my yard instead.

danielodievich 5y ago

Many years ago during one of the big corporate training events in room of about 80 people we had a little icebreaker activity, where we had to say something interesting about ourselves that nobody else knew. I don't remember what I or anyone else said, except for one lady. She was a high powered account executive or something, but as aside, she said she owned a peach and nut orchard somewhere in California, and she had a big permanently loaded shotgun in her car to "kill the f*cking squirrels" (her exact quote) as she drove through the property because otherwise "they'd get nothing at all". Great vivid picture and great icebreaker!

beezle 5y ago
Growing up I lived near a Russian couple that had emigrated post revolution around the time of WWI. They had a good amount of property that they covered with various vegetables in the summer. Very industrious people. The husband despised the squirrels for ruining both his garden as well as his bird feeders. Being handy, he put one bird feeder on a metal articulating arm out the kitchen window. And then he wired it to the outside light switch. He got much joy out of flipping that switch and shocking the tree rats!

bluedino 5y ago

Grab a Gamo .177 pellet rifle. Enjoy a cup of coffee while you pick the squirrels off one by one.

tomcam 5y ago

I think there is no more beautiful tree. The shade is truly worth it.