Thankful for My Pecan Trees

We inherited these great pecan trees when we bought our 1850's home.

So each November, we spend alot of time bending over and picking up pecans.....






Before Maggie eats them.


(Yes! She loves pecans. Don't you see the "guilt" written all over her face?!)



After we pick them up off the ground - we take them to the local hardware store....

And the men who work there weigh them (that bucket weighed 16 pounds.)


Then they pour the pecans into one of these three machines, which crack the pecans.

Quite methodically and loudly, the machines crack them. (I tried to video the machines so that you could hear them, but my camera messed up - or maybe the user of the camera messed up.)




Here is how they look when they are finished....



($5 to crack them all)



And here they are, ready to freeze or give to neighbors....



Thought you might like a little insight into rural Georgia in November.



Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!