modom (palindrome guy) wrote:

> Cruel irony this week came in the form of an overabundant pecan
> crop-to-be.
>
> We came out of a nearly two-year drought this summer. The drought
> ended decisively when more than 2/3 the normal annual rainfall
> happened in six weeks.
>
> The local pecan trees, stressed by the previous months of drought,
> have bounced back assertively with thousands of huge green pecans on
> them, waiting to drop in October. But the weight is too great. I'm
> losing limbs almost daily. This afternoon we came home to see a major
> one had snapped under the load while we were in Dallas.
>
> Cruel irony = the pecan harvest will be diminished because there are
> too many pecans and they're too big.


Perhaps the upside is you can use the wood in your smoker. Pecan
is good stuff.

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Reg