I'm a little nuts about...

Nuts!

It all started back in the sticky summer of 83. Mother sent me packing on a jet plane to fly solo (age 5) to visit grandma in Brisbane. That was back when they gave you colouring books and pencils on Qantas. Maybe they still do, but I haven't been offered any. I think this all led to my interest in coloured pencils, but I digress.. nuts. Yes, it was upon arrival at gran's that I experienced the snow like fallings of the macadamia tree. Her cement slabs were nestling husks with peaking brown nuts.

Armed with a hammer and a concrete crevice, I would spend hours learning how to crack it just so, to keep the smooth white nut in tact and not decorated with shell smashings. Each hard earned nut was consumed instantly, and that is how I proved that I am nuts about nuts.

I won't take my macas in any other form than au natural now. Although I was tempted by some lime and pepper roasted ones recently at the maca castle in NSW. Yeah, of course I would go the macadamia castle three times in two days.

So when I saw this bag of pecan nuts I got to relive my childhood.

And they were a mere $5 for locally grown pecans.
They were sitting outside my IGA supermarket. The IGA that will let me borrow a DVD with no ID because I say I'm local. Yet another of the amassing reasons I LOVE rural communities!

So I went out in search of a nut cracker, and at $25 I wasn't convinced they'd do my nuts the right service. (hmm that sentence could be taken out of context). So I went to Bunnings, feeling all tough, a girl on a mission for a tool, "I don't need no help thanks I know which aisle I'm after". So straight to the hammer section I went to pick, well, the cheapest one actually, I'm just cracking nuts after all.

And with some angling and practicing and getting too much shell in my nut, I worked through my bag.

I finally reached that point of ecstacy where the nut comes out intact and tastes like the effort put in to crack it.

So there you have it. A nut cracker that doubles as a tool you can put nails into wood with!

I thought I'd apply this logic to other things, so I'm testing out how I can use office chair packing box as a dog bed (wind protection a bonus).

And Oscar was straight in there - no questions asked. He even took it one step further and dragged in the plastic bits for extra cushy comfort. sigh..... dogs.....

and nuts.....

[current mood] ABC Sunshine FM with Mary Lou & Porridge with Rhubarb Compote

Comments

[Emma]

Yeah. I LOVE LOVE LOVE rural communities too. (I like people who work on the land too) I am in the Kimberley at the moment and am just looking for excuses to break my newly resigned lease on my home in Perth. Sigh. Hope you are good. Em