Black Walnuts

What a glorious morning. 

You want me to get up now???

After booting BradyCat out of bed, I decided to take advantage of the weather and start collecting various nuts around the property.

Black Walnuts and Hickory Nuts

I have just begun!  I stagger a bit (ankle still giving me fits), but I have great hopes that I'll be able to master this new HUGE nut cracker I purchased from Lehman's last year.  I'll continue to update my progress on the nut harvest here. 

I may even try acorns.  Our neighbor has some nice White Oaks.  Since acorns were a staple of the Native Americans, I'm curious about how they processed and cooked these little nuts.