Can Keeper And Bottle Reaper

19 July 2017

Up and down the alleys and streets

The pedal-powered urban gleaners toil.

They seek and sort for their treats.

Although they don’t harvest from soil.

In the evening and thru the night

They pick thru curbside recycling bins.

Bottles and cans bring them delight.

The looted booty becoming bagged burdens.

The reprocessables are taken to be reclaimed

To be itemized by weight or count.

Then a store voucher can be claimed

And redeemed for food or a cash amount.

In a gray area, the urban gleaners

Search and sort for their livelihood.

They may be vilified for their demeanors,

But they’re good for the neighborhood.

Walnuts

In an earlier post, I commented that each day has its own flavor. Today's flavor is walnut. To clear space in the freezer I took out some walnuts that had been in there for a couple of years. The walnuts came from a tree in my twin's backyard. When he first moved into that house, we could leapfrog over a broken branch in the grass. Now it's a tree twice as tall as the house and drops walnuts each autumn. Anyway, a couple of years ago I harvested some walnuts. The walnuts with hulls I just put in the garage. The walnuts without hulls I put in the freezer. Yes, Virginia, walnuts have hulls and shells. They're doubly protected. When I got around to them, the nuts in the garage had withered and were worthless. The nuts in the freezer were still good when I shelled them today. Today's imponderable: "If the walnuts have never been cracked open, how does the mold get inside?"
Today I also posted a video on YouTube talking about walnuts and brain function: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_huqszlUlzs