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Subject: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 11 - 05:23 PM Seems that our oak trees know something that we don't because they have produced tens of thousands of acorns and so I don't need thousands of acorns so I am offering them to anyone who is willing to come and rake them up and haul them off... And the best part about this is that, yes, they are... ...free!!! B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Wesley S Date: 18 Oct 11 - 05:34 PM So - did you eat up all the squirrels? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Lonesome EJ Date: 18 Oct 11 - 05:36 PM Wow, Bob! That's enough for several bushels of Acorn n' Raisin Trail Mix! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: gnu Date: 18 Oct 11 - 06:05 PM Put that on one of the huntin websites and there'll be pickup trucks with antlers mounted on the hoods blockin yer driveaway. Heck, you could charge em $5 bucks a sack. Ekerns is ekerns eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Leadfingers Date: 18 Oct 11 - 07:00 PM Wild boar like acorns Bobert - And they are good eating - (The Boar , not the acorns) so try attracting a Boar or three ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,kendall Date: 18 Oct 11 - 07:13 PM Feral pigs are becoming a problem in many places. I'm sure you know that Deer like acorns. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Janie Date: 18 Oct 11 - 07:29 PM Yeh, Bobert. Looks to be another bumper year for acorns on the Piedmont. Wish my driveway wasn't overhung with oak trees. Kendall, deer like acorns once the hostas are all gone. Squirrels like acorns once the birdfeeders have been emptied. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 11 - 08:15 PM So where are these hunters??? BTW, I have seen one wild boar... One show up in the P-Vine's gardens then it gonna become BBQ... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Oct 11 - 08:16 PM My dogs like acorns any time they're on the ground. As good as popcorn as far as they're concerned. But 100 pounds of dog would barely make a dent in your supply. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: gnu Date: 18 Oct 11 - 08:21 PM Just put that offer on the net Bobert... Buckmasters, Real Tree Outdoors, etc... I used to watch those shows on the TV years ago until I realized they were huntin on "deer farms"... disgusting. I had pretty much quit hunting before that but still watched the shows for a while. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 11 - 08:26 PM Thanks, gn-ze.... I mean, in the time it took for you to post that another 300 fell... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: JennieG Date: 18 Oct 11 - 09:20 PM Just don't stand underneath the oak trees when those pesky a-corns are a-falling, Bobert....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 11 - 09:44 PM Yeah, Jen... It's a war zone... I have been hit at least a dozen times and they hurt... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: gnu Date: 18 Oct 11 - 09:45 PM They sell em (roasted) here in the grocery stores around Christmas... I never cared for them but they sell em. Same as chestnuts and all the others. We don't have a lot of oak here in the woods. In the cities, oak are fairly common but not in any volume of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 18 Oct 11 - 10:00 PM Send "they" down to collect 'um, gn-ze... I still have a a couple hundred thousand of 'um... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Jeri Date: 18 Oct 11 - 10:03 PM They sound like little bombs when the crash down on the leaves out back. Bobert, you missed a perfectly good opportunity. "Free to a Good Home" would be a great band name, but this could've been "Bobert's Nuts". Are they sacked or just loose? Or do people just come over and grab what they want? Anyway, good luck getting them off your property. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 19 Oct 11 - 12:12 AM I saw this thread and thought right away that maybe my damned landlord was tryin' to get me outta here by givin' me away! He should live so long. The eviction notices didn't work, and rafflin' me off ain't gonna work either. But look, I know some monkeys that can use them acorns. Email me yer position on Mapquest, Bobertz, and I'll spread the word. - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Oct 11 - 03:02 AM ...I thought it was Chongo, trying to give away an undersized hawk... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 19 Oct 11 - 03:30 AM Oh, I tried all right. No one would take him! - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Becca72 Date: 19 Oct 11 - 08:39 AM I think Jeri's on to something... put an ad on Craig's List "Come and grab a couple handfuls of Bobert's nuts!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: freda underhill Date: 19 Oct 11 - 08:50 AM hey, a buncha acorns ain't nuthin' ta whine about.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 19 Oct 11 - 09:05 AM LOL, ya'll... Tell ya' what, I raked up an entire tractor (1/2 yard) bucket full yesterday... That's a lot of nuts... I ain't making no stenking wine with 'um... Sounds nasty... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: freda underhill Date: 19 Oct 11 - 09:23 AM heh heh.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: olddude Date: 19 Oct 11 - 10:24 AM Ok ya can eat them in a pinch but ya gotta get rid of the tannin in them. grind them up, put them in a cheese cloth and soak em over night in water to get rid of the tannin... the paste can then be made into patties and cook ... that is how the native Americans did it ... I did it on survival but never at home. Actually they are pretty good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: EBarnacle Date: 19 Oct 11 - 11:37 AM Sell them to a health food chain to be turned into flour. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 19 Oct 11 - 01:37 PM Ya can also use 'em this way: Fill yer bathtub 2/3 full of acorns. Run hot water in. Let 'em soak for 8 hours. Then climb in there and immerse yerself in water and acorns for up to 4 hours. Make sure ya have a good book to read. This will clear away any parasites you are harbourin' and it will tenderize and condition yer skin, see? - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: olddude Date: 19 Oct 11 - 01:40 PM Chongo for President |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 19 Oct 11 - 01:50 PM An acorn pinged onto my car yesterday from a line of oak trees beside a busy road. Thought we were being been shot at; blooming thing has slightly chipped the paintwork! (But I do love the oaks. They were planted all over Norfolk UK to mark the boundaries of the fields. They're hundreds of years old, and each one is home to over eighty species of creatures!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 19 Oct 11 - 01:59 PM Have just checked that, and it's over 900 different living things, if you count all the lichens, tiny insects etc etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Amos Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:29 PM I think sending CHongo off to a good home, such as the Wabash Home for the Mentally Disabled, would be a first-rate plan. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: VirginiaTam Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:46 PM Acorns make excellent compost material. they are nice in crafts, christmas decorations. Put up notices in schools, youth centers, retirement homes. If you feel enterprising, spray some of them gold, some silver and flog them to florists and crafters. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: freda underhill Date: 19 Oct 11 - 07:24 PM Bobert, if you're not into acorn wine, this very interesting article on culling, preparation of acorns + recipes may wet your whistle. "The first mention of acorns for human consumption was by the Greeks over 2,000 years ago. Over the course of human history it has been estimated that people have eaten more acorns than both wheat and rice combined.... Acorns have a low sugar content and therefore help control blood sugar levels... Acorns are a reliable source of carbohydrates, protein, 6 vitamins, 8 minerals, and 18 amino acids, and they are lower in fat than most other nuts. One handful of acorns is equivalent in nutrition to a pound of fresh hamburger..." The article helpfully shows how to dry acorns in such a way as to kill insect larva while not making the nutmeat too dry! There are many scrummy recipes for tortillas, muffins, acorn meal mush, glazed acorn treats at the end! bon appetite! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 19 Oct 11 - 08:29 PM lol, freda, but I like "real food"... lol... Except 4 legged creatures... No thanks to them... I ain't eatin' no acorns... I ain't drenking 'um and, for God's sake, I ain't bathin' in the sumabiches... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Little Hawk Date: 19 Oct 11 - 08:31 PM So...you are resigned to having dry, horny skin, are you? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: freda underhill Date: 19 Oct 11 - 08:51 PM .. there's always the mega -healthy acorn mattress, works like a water bed except full of acorns. The crammed acorns stimulate meridians and pressure points when lying on the mattress, and they say that 40 minutes on an acorn mattress is worth two days of Chinese pummel therapy. It's good for people with pain management issues, as the pain from the acorns is greater than the original pain, thus cancelling it out. While some bruising can be experienced, this can be treated with Freda's Acorn vodka, which as well as being full of vitamin C (good for bruising) is high in alcohol (a relaxant) which may assist in the process of becoming used to the acorn mattress therapy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Janie Date: 19 Oct 11 - 09:06 PM Windy couple of days here on the Northeast Piedmont. My car is rapidly collecting another year of dings from falling acorns, and the sound of them falling on my roof and on the metal car shelters of neighbors all around me wakens me frequently at night. I've got a yard full of mostly red oaks. White oaks have lower tannins and are less bitter and most wild life prefer white oaks. White oaks also do not require dormancy and will often germinate in fall. Gray squirrels (maybe other species of squirrel also, I just don't know) can tell the difference between white and red oak acorns. They will eat white acorns right away, and bury the red acorns, hoping to find them late in winter or early spring, instinctively knowing that white acorns will not store, but will germinate. I've worked with both red and white acorns to make "flours" and quick breads that incorporate wild sources of food. White acorns require much less leaching than red oak acorns, but either can be used. It is a tedious process of thorough leaching, drying, then grinding, but cornbread or other quick bread recipes that substitute ground acorns for part of the flour are quite tasty(provided one was sufficiently thorough with the leaching process.) Like any bread that incorporates nut "flours", the texture will be more dense as nuts do not contain gluten, and they tend to be on the dry side, but also higher in nutritional value. It is a mild and windy night tonight. I don't dare venture out from under my carport, and standing out there, all one can hear from all over the oak-forested neighborhood is the wind and the crack of acorns falling. If I were more wildlife than I am, I'd be happy to know this is another bumper year for mast. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 20 Oct 11 - 11:45 AM I wonder how much nutrition was left in those acorns by the time they had been soaked, pounded and cooked. I also wonder whether the calories expended in making them edible wasn't about equal to the calories gained by eating them. I suspect that the acorn-eaters had been driven into oak-infested territory by fiercer people. Bobert, it's my experience that not many acorns actually hatch. Just leave the acorns where they are, wait for a really wet spring day, then walk around and yank up the unwanted seedlings. The strongest trees here in Missouri are oaks and crabapples. When we've had bad storms here, other trees endanger people and buildings, but the oaks and crabapples can be trusted. That's probably true for you, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Janie Date: 20 Oct 11 - 07:18 PM Protein and calcium are the two main nutrients in acorns. I don't know if the calcium leaches out, but the protein would not. I have a long and strong interest in wild foods and foraging. It is fun to experiment and also to have some idea of what it might take to survive, if need be. There is no way to know, leeneia, but I suspect that acorns, abundant as they are in many parts of the temperate climate world, were an important contribution to the winter stores our hunter-gatherer ancestors stored in the back of the cave. I'd agree that most of the acorns that fall in my yard do not germinate, but within another month, acorns will lie so thick on the ground here as to look almost like mulch, and I suspect the same could be true at Bobert's. The first mowing in spring is to cut off the leaves on the seedlings that are shading out the newly greening grass, and it is a couple of months worth of hard weekend work to stay on top of pulling seedlings out of the garden beds before they have sufficient tap root to be hard to remove. While I haven't made it to Bobert and P-Vine's new digs yet, I have a good idea of the scale on which they garden, and walking around on a wet spring day is not sufficient to control the seedlings. More on the gardening thread. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 20 Oct 11 - 09:28 PM That's about it, Janie... Even if only one in ten makes a baby then that is hundreds of tree-wantabees that need to be dealt with... And they can be a pain... Once the tap root sets it a matter of diggin' it out like a cancer... Lotta hours... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Oct 11 - 09:31 PM Chongo says you should just use a couple pounds of plastic explosive or sticks of dynamite...get rid of them acorns FAST! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Amos Date: 20 Oct 11 - 09:43 PM I think Rapaire can get Chongo a real deal on a suicide-bomber's vest --never used--cheap!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Oct 11 - 09:45 PM "Never used" would be pretty much obligatory for making such a thing marketable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp Date: 20 Oct 11 - 09:47 PM I would consider buyin' it, but I want Rap to test it out himself first and see if it's workin' right. Then call me. - Chongo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: VirginiaTam Date: 21 Oct 11 - 02:31 PM back to the wild boar idea, could you offer to let local pig farmers graze their pigs. Should be a dawdle for them to set up temporary mobile pens. Or contact organic / free range pig farmers. They may come collect the nuts and haul them off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Janie Date: 21 Oct 11 - 08:14 PM Imagining what the landscaped beds look like after the pigs are done rooting:^) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: maeve Date: 21 Oct 11 - 09:06 PM Possible buyers here, Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Bobert Date: 21 Oct 11 - 09:14 PM Sheet fire... I just raked up and dumped $500 worth of 'um... At least... And what Janie said... No hogs, thank you... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: VirginiaTam Date: 22 Oct 11 - 10:47 AM I did say temporary pens and then amended to offering the nuts to free range hog farmers provided they collect. Bobert, you should invest in one of those leaf blower / yard vac things (like this.) Blow all the leaves away for composting/shredding. Then hoover up the acorns for selling. If you want to sell them they do need to be harvested as soon as they fall and they need to be dried. you could set up a mini oast (brick round house with conical roof, low fire under neath and shelves made of hardware cloth to spread the acorns out on)? This will kill all the bugs and mould. Sell them in burlap bags labelled Bobertz Nutz. :~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Crowhugger Date: 22 Oct 11 - 12:14 PM Not enough takers yet, eh Bobert? You might have to invest a little time in marketing. To sweeten the deal, with each bushel include free DIY centrepiece instructions, how to glue them into shapes (horn-of-plenty, turkey, cylinders for fake candles...), spray paint in harvest colours and Bobert's your uncle! Make a couple to provide inspirational photos, and presto you'll start the newest craze in fashionable fall dining. Just in time for Thanksgiving tables! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: gnu Date: 22 Oct 11 - 12:49 PM freda... HAHAHAHAHHAAA |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Oct 11 - 11:37 AM Living in Texas, it's difficult to imagine anyone buying pounds or tons of acorns, but then the same could be said about tumbleweed. There's a woman in West Texas who has made a good living collecting them along the roadside and selling them. And they're probably dropping seeds all over creation by now . . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home... From: Janie Date: 23 Oct 11 - 12:22 PM I think crowhugger's on to something! If Martha Stewart can do it.... |
