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Damn, I bought these at the gas station last week and just popped them open. All I can say is AWESOME. I'm eating the dill sunflower seeds now and damned if they don't taste exactly like a Vlasic.

I also have the beer baked and hot wings variety. Can't wait to try those.

Anyone had these before? Anxious to find the bleu cheese variety.

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Maybe you thought it said scrotes.

And let me tell you, it's awwwwfullllly hard to grow them sunflower seeds.

Keeping the birds away is the problem.


I've been eating some walnuts lately. My goodest buddy has what may be the world's lagest freaking walnut tree in his backyard. It actually is most of the backyard. Produces black walnuts by literally the tens of thousands(did I mention this thing is staggeringly huge?). He bought the place 13 years ago, and none of the limited attempts at roasting the walnuts went for a shit. Until he married a dirty-commie-Ukranian. She's done a fine job of roasting up some excellent walnuts, better than store-bought. Them third-worlders are quite gifted at free food. They can turn a microwave into a watch, or something.

There used to be walnut trees and almond trees all over the place when I was growing up in the Santa Clara Valley. They were great for coimbing in as well as the fruit in them.

Alas, I'm not there anymore, and I don't think any of those trees are either.


Had some dill pickle flavored David seeds and they tasted just like Vlasic too. Strange for seeds, but good.

Since this thread sux --

My friend's walnut tree is actually really something to behold. The story goes that early settlers planted a walnut orchard, way back when(and tes, walnut trees grow better here than where you people live...we kinda have BODE like that). When they started building housing in that neighborhood in the 30's, they cut down all of the trees, but they left that one, and built the house out in front of it. I guess they were pretty huge trees back then, but now that they're 150 years old or whatever...forgetaboutit.

Sucker has 5 main trunks, the tiny one being about 2.5 feet across. The others are larger, one quite a bit. If you took the longest cross-section through the trunk, you could build one huge-ass dining room table out of it. Hard to say how tall it is, since there's other huge trees in the neighborhood(some douglas firs a block over are over 150 feet, and estimated by our forestry bud at being 250-300 years old) that make it hard to get a clear view and "triangulate"(or whatever the fuck the call that technique for measuring trees) it. Over 100 feet, I'm sure. Must be about 100 squirrels living in the bitch. And the squirrels seem to get much joy from knocking nuts loose from the upper branches during barbeques and whatnot. Catch is, it's so dense, nuts falling from the upper limbs hit too much stuff on the way down to really be a bug hazard.

When he bought the place, there was a columnar pear tree in the back corner. We had that one at about 75 feet tall. It grew bunches and bunches of pears...really really big pears. All the way up to the top. The largest pears weighed over a pound, Im sure...bigazz(bad tasting) pears. And let me tell you, when 1 pound pears start dropping from 75 feet...you didn't want no part of that side of the yard. Fuckers used to leave craters. No one ever took a direct hit to the head from a pear, thank goodness. Probably kill someone. A few years back, his ASSHOLE NEIGHBORS sent some arborists into his yard, and they cut the pear down. Good riddance, actually. Would have been nice if they ASKED first, though.

Props on the innovative packaging. Does that fit in a cupholder? My brother and I pigged on out sunflower seeds during our 4.5 hour drive to our cousin's house this past weekend and the bags don't sit nicely in the console. Lots of them end up on the floor...

halfway through I realized you busted out some "tree smack" and bwahaaha'ed

timmay wrote:halfway through I realized you busted out some "tree smack" and bwahaaha'ed

:faggyfaggywinky:


Jealous, Drybrainer?

meh. not very dry here right now.

I'm so not going to talk about all the fruit trees we had in California when I was a small child, yet to invade the sacred lands of the dinsdales.

woops.

Dinsdale land don't do citrus. Temperate modified maritime climate out front should have told you.

Temperate stuff...BODE.


Over here on the Inhabitable Side of the state, we're due for some of your midwest weather...cold and 0.0% humidity.

Winter sucks. Especially when it's in autumn.

on the rare occasion that it rains here the Juniper weeds smell really good.


then there's those nasty Pondo's that drop their acid laced needles everywhere. then there's the lucky few transplanted trees that are hearty enough to survive the gnar climate shifts.

funny thing is my pap has 5 apple trees and 2 HUGE maples in his front yard. weird. the maples are big fattys like the ones in drake park

btw srry for the U&L tree smak hijack gang

timmay wrote:then there's those nasty Pondo's that drop their acid laced needles everywhere.

Got one huge one, and could literally fill a dump truck with needles, and have some leftover. Few things grow anywhere near that sucker, either. Holly seems to do OK. But hey, at least those needles will rot down to compost in the time frame of...about never. Will be filling the yard debris can with pondo needles until probably April.


Cool looking tree, though. Second-coolest non-fruit tree in the yard. Massive sequoia is the bestest.

When I moved to Florida, I wanted one of those citrus trees that have branches with 3 different fruit--
like lemons, limes, and tangelos. I looked at one that cost $300. What with citrus canker here and the USDA able to come and take out your tree if they think it is infected--I opted for a plain jane lemon tree-- $15 at
"the" Home Depot-- I've had about 2 dozen lemons off it this year--MrsO even made a great lemon pie for me.
Rack Florida citrus !!

Wolfman wrote:When I moved to Florida, I wanted one of those citrus trees that have branches with 3 different fruit--
like lemons, limes, and tangelos. I looked at one that cost $300. What with citrus canker here and the USDA able to come and take out your tree if they think it is infected--I opted for a plain jane lemon tree-- $15 at
"the" Home Depot-- I've had about 2 dozen lemons off it this year--MrsO even made a great lemon pie for me.
Rack Florida citrus !!

F

^^^^^


and I thought I was a tough "grader" !!

I was going to --
post a smartyassy reply
like everyone
else doing the--
wolfman bit..

but I gotta say dont sweat it big O

when i was i lil kid, we had lemon and avacado trees in our yard, and I used to hate avacados because I would always step on them with my bare feet..

while I was getting--
ready to take a-
dip in our pool--
before watching my
old grandpappy--
drink a six
pack-of beast light!!!


I miss lemon trees btw

^^^^^

I laughed !!

"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

somebody said that once and it wasn't me !!

Mikey wrote:There used to be walnut trees and almond trees all over the place when I was growing up in the Santa Clara Valley. They were great for coimbing in as well as the fruit in them.

I was sitting in a black walnut tree two weeks ago, dropping a 8-point buck, then watching tOSU vs Mich on a 2.5” TV screen.

Wolfman wrote: "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

No. It means you're a fucking douche.

Goober McTuber wrote:I was sitting in a black walnut tree two weeks ago, dropping a 8-point buck, then watching tOSU vs Mich on a 2.5” TV screen.

I thought I would stir the pot a little for Dinsdale. Goober, the 8 point buck, were all the horns on one side or was that a total count of the horn points?

Rip City

We settled this a looooong time ago, Luth -- barbarians, douches, and east-of-the-Rockies people count all of the points, to make themselves feel better about their inferior animals. West of the Rockies(or at least west of the Cascades/Sierra) people count one side, since they don't need to express the animal's size in scientific notation to feel like a big brave badass.


Can you imagine? Well, let's see...I caught a salmon that was 54 inches long, and it was 22 inches in girth, and weighed 38 pounds. So, when someone asks how big it was, I'll just say "it was 114!"


Funny that comes up...got drunk with a super-diehard hunter from Northern Idaho recently. I guess I could have asked him about the "point system" they use...but I really didn't care. Although, he said "oh, no doubt you guys have about the biggest animals anywhere right here...but I don't know how anyone is supposed to get at them with all of the underbrush. Take three fucking days to get an elk to the truck. I'll pass."

West of the Rockies they only count one side, because if they shot a really decent buck and wanted to count both sides of the rack, they’d have to take their shoes off.

Touche.

Goober McTuber wrote:West of the Rockies they only count one side, because if they shot a really decent buck and wanted to count both sides of the rack, they’d have to take their shoes off.

People don't want me counting as I'm missing a toe on my right foot. Or at least half of one anyway.

Rip City

Dinsdale wrote:

Wolfman wrote: "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

No. It means you're a fucking douche.

Oh come on. What is with this is gratuitous, kneejerk hostility? So far this has been a harmless- and to me fairly interesting - discussion of yard trees, Wolfman's take included.

Douche.

Until the douche changed the topic by grossly misrepresenting why he's constantly at the bottom of the pile-on.

Leave the wolfster alone. Bad Karma to fuck with the old guys, especially since I'm in that group.

I've got crayons and I'm not afraid to use them.

Rip City

I'm only guessing...but that guess tells me that wolfman will stop being called out for his douchetude when he stops acting the douche.

Life is funny like that...I figued the geriatric set would understand these things. Then again, that's probably why we make fun of old people.

I'm stocking up on Depends, 'cause I know I'll need them sooner or later.

Mikey wrote:I'm stocking up on Depends, 'cause I know I'll need them sooner or later.

Just --
Don't!!!!
Use this board!!!
As the disposal pail!!!
--LOL!!

Both you guys are pushing me. And no I'm not talking about to the pharmacy down the hall either.

Rip City

I dunno, Luth. I really don't like the idea of treating complete strangers on the internet differently based on personal attributes. I'd rather stay within the confines of the internet world, where I can call 70 year old men fucking douchebags, without guilt or repercussion.

Dinsdale wrote:We settled this a looooong time ago, Luth -- barbarians, douches, and east-of-the-Rockies people count all of the points, to make themselves feel better about their inferior animals. West of the Rockies(or at least west of the Cascades/Sierra) people count one side, since they don't need to express the animal's size in scientific notation to feel like a big brave badass.

Hey, Dins, I got to thinking about this a bit, and I wonder if that west of the Rockies deal is somewhat due to the types of deer you see. It seems to me that almost all of the photos I’ve seen of mule deer racks are fairly symmetrical, as are elk. That is, you’ll generally see the same number of tines on each side. With whitetail, it’s not at all uncommon to see a different number of tines on each beam. I don’t know, I could be mistaken. First time for everything.

Up and....Up we just count the number of dead trolls hanging from the RACK. Of course, sometimes it's important to check the hooves for troll remnants as well.

Prancer wrote: Of course, sometimes it's important to check the hooves for troll remnants as well.

Slow mvscals?