I took my little kidlets to my grandmother's house today to hunt for nuts. Their yard is full of black walnut, English walnut, pecan, hazelnut, and chestnut trees. What little boy wouldn't LOVE that?
Will proved to be a very fine walnut collector while Carter specialized in pecans and Chinese chestnuts (the kind that roast on an open fire a la Nat King Cole). The Chinese chestnuts are extremely prickly on the outside and you need very specialized nut collecting gloves (pictured below) when collecting them.
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Great-Grandma is also a very good nut hunter and helped the boys learn what the different nuts look like and Will learned what sheep poop looks like that that it is not a pile of small nuts.
The boys and I had a great time with our very special grandma.
Carter with his very special nut gathering/regular garden gloves. He was fairly frustrated at the lack of licorice in the pasture and kept insisting that we were done with nuts. We had to have a chat tonight about being polite and kind and making people feel like we enjoy being around them for reasons other than licorice.
Will with as many walnuts as a little boy can hold. They come in surprisingly large shells with green/black husks that make them bigger than golf balls. Perfect for little hands. 
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Those pictures are so cute. I would like you to have the be nice talk with Jacob. Sometimes I feel like he only likes me for my licorice
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