That's Shucking Nuts
I made the kids go outside to play and have just enough time to tell you about a food source we have here on the land in the hypothetical event the grid goes down (or something). We have several black walnut trees and decided to harvest, shuck (shell? skin?), dry, and crack open some nutty goodness. Side note: Before we did this, we watched a couple videos, and from our detailed YouTubery research, we discovered that once you crack open the hard, inner shell, you have access to the "nut meat." As a result, I have vowed to henceforth refer to walnuts as "nut meat" whenever possible. Moving on. Wait, just kidding. Walnuts drop their NUT MEAT in green tennis ball-sized orbs on the ground during the fall. Once that happens, you have three options: Break an ankle on them while walking through your yard, harvest them off the ground to shell (shuck? skin? WHO KNOWS) for eating, OR trick your friends into picking them up so you don't have to, which is what ...