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#238139 Oct 12th, 2008 at 06:48 AM
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it hit me in the head. I feel like Chicken Little with acorns raining on my head. I don't remember them falling in such numbers. ToDeTa, the dog wonder, has been barking all night as they hit the house.



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I KNOW! Last week on fell and hit the tin roof on one of the animal pens.......we all thought we had been shot! shock


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You have acorns we have little crab apples from the tree beside the house- it has thousands of them I think and if we get a little breeze they fall on house and sounds roll- then we get the squirrels getting them off the roof and out of the gutters... sometimes just one will sound like a herd of them.... back and forth, over and over....
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I have pines growing over my house. Pine cones falling and rolling down to the gutters make a racket. But I can sleep through those noises. They hurt when they land on you. Most of mine are about fist size or slightly larger. On the far side of the ranch we have huge pine cones. I am very glad none of those are over my house.


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I like using the big pinecones during Christmas.



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Yes we do a lot of decorating year round with the big cones. I use the smaller ones for fire starters in my wood burners. And I also dip some in wax for my friends and neighbors for gifts.


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We have walnuts dropping around here. One hangs over a parking area on the street. Wouldn't want to park there right now the way they are falling.

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Originally Posted by jonni13
Yes we do a lot of decorating year round with the big cones. I use the smaller ones for fire starters in my wood burners. And I also dip some in wax for my friends and neighbors for gifts.


I've done the fire starters before. They really work.

have you spray painted the big ones for center pieces? It seems they always turn out pretty because the paint only catches on the high spots.



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Originally Posted by loz
We have walnuts dropping around here. One hangs over a parking area on the street. Wouldn't want to park there right now the way they are falling.

Yep that is what I have.......I read back and saw she said acorns, I have walnuts and I still thought I was shot when they fell!


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Pecans occasionally fall from the sky in my neighborhood.


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Wendy, can you eat your walnuts? My mom says her walnuts are falling but are too hard or too black or something like that to eat.




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