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Chestnuts There, Roasting Here
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My niece performed that song at a Christmas show once with her usual skill and grace. Time magazine regularly puts up photos for captions. A memorable one was of the Nixon family posing for holiday photos with their famous dog, and one caption went 'Checkers roasting on an open fire...'  Europe is troubled with Elm's disease. There is reason to hope that new resistant trees will be developed.  <- Profile photo courtesy of Bonding with coworkers
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No mention of chestnut jam and nut cream??? 
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My niece performed that song at a Christmas show once with her usual skill and grace. Time magazine regularly puts up photos for captions. A memorable one was of the Nixon family posing for holiday photos with their famous dog, and one caption went 'Checkers roasting on an open fire...' Europe is troubled with Elm's disease. There is reason to hope that new resistant trees will be developed. 
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there are a few chestnuts here in portland. one of my band members brought a bag over to one of our rehearsals. she wont divulge the location.  our home sits on a corner lot with 5 huge century-old chestnut trees. alas, they are the horse chestnut variety. though that doesn't stop people from collecting them. they are a beautiful nut. i talked to one person who was collecting a bag full. he revealed that he is a naturopath and makes a tincture. he uses the tincture for treating a condition in the legs (i forget the condition). but it is mostly the squirrels that enjoy our horse chestnuts. and it is true ~ they can easily move from one tree to the next. i enjoy them most for the vast amounts of shade they provide ~ and the privacy to our veranda off of the master bedroom. but this is the time of year that i enjoy them the most ~ for the next three months, i will not have to bother with any leaf/nut cleanup!
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12/18/2010 12:09 pm |
Hi Blondeapril, You have a great blog, you have a very sexy and literate ass. -Seven
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Thanks Seven, yours is looking pretty literate too
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keep the fires burning young lady and thanks for stopping by my profile. hugs and have a great Holiday season. looks like a forest outside your window. i left my forest home for texas. yuk. lol but texans are nice ppl. take care. i am just an old guy looking for chat friends.
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If only they could graft them to the Horse variety...I class it as a giant weed...neighbor had one up till last year...the spiny seed pods made for great fun in snowballs as a callow youth...but having to eradicate them, they will just about sprout anywhere there is moisture, got to be quite a pain...and the local squirrels carried and buried them everywhere in the neighborhood...all the best to you and yours this season...
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there are a few chestnuts here in portland. one of my band members brought a bag over to one of our rehearsals. she wont divulge the location. our home sits on a corner lot with 5 huge century-old chestnut trees. alas, they are the horse chestnut variety. though that doesn't stop people from collecting them. they are a beautiful nut. i talked to one person who was collecting a bag full. he revealed that he is a naturopath and makes a tincture. he uses the tincture for treating a condition in the legs (i forget the condition). but it is mostly the squirrels that enjoy our horse chestnuts. and it is true ~ they can easily move from one tree to the next. i enjoy them most for the vast amounts of shade they provide ~ and the privacy to our veranda off of the master bedroom. but this is the time of year that i enjoy them the most ~ for the next three months, i will not have to bother with any leaf/nut cleanup!
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keep the fires burning young lady and thanks for stopping by my profile. hugs and have a great Holiday season. looks like a forest outside your window. i left my forest home for texas. yuk. lol but texans are nice ppl. take care. i am just an old guy looking for chat friends.
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If only they could graft them to the Horse variety...I class it as a giant weed...neighbor had one up till last year...the spiny seed pods made for great fun in snowballs as a callow youth...but having to eradicate them, they will just about sprout anywhere there is moisture, got to be quite a pain...and the local squirrels carried and buried them everywhere in the neighborhood...all the best to you and yours this season...
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12/21/2010 9:27 pm |
Here in Idaho and the northwestern US it's the mighty White Pine that fell victim to blister rust, an invasive species introduced to this continent by well meaning but perhaps not well informed people. Very few of these giants are left in the forests here. An old growth White pine is an impressive site. Perhaps someday blister rust resistant White Pines will return to the role they once played in the forests of the Inland Northwest. I hope some of the thousands that I have planted will survive!
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A truly sad story relating to the fate of a majestic tree. I guess I can be called a tree lover. I planted trees whenever and where ever I can. They bring up matched beauty to the environment. Loosing billions of chestnut trees stands as one of the most major looses this continent has ever had to endure. I place it up there with the American Buffalo. But, at least that animal still survives today. I share with you the thought that someday a cure will be found for the dreaded blight that claimed so many beautiful trees. The same fate fell on the American Elm as well. Plate a tree and make some shade. Bud Always Ready for Fun.
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1/17/2011 5:52 am |
Chestnuts gather off the ground I walk across the farm on Lamberts cove They need not be Castagna or Noche These fine morsels grow right here As do I I am private In OB
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1/17/2011 6:15 am |
Now new trees they grow in my yard send from Gurneys as bar root stock The Chestnut is hybridized(if that is how you spell it?) I plant in Vermont as well Apple, Pear, and Plum.I was a member of the Farm Institute I love gardening, I am an excellent trespassers, and older.You are very prolific. I am sorry however the system will not down load photos.I am off to work in VH and would like to meet such a person as you. Please send me a message or be at the OB jetty at six this evening
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