Charcoal in the stocking you say ?

[SeaRay]

That was a nice photo and memory. I just dug out some of my own - some I had forgotten about. ‘‘Tis the season to remember back...
Bob

That's actually a picture I took of a painting my sister did of our home in a rare snow. SC you know. Supposed to be 70° Christmas Day.

[skeetbum]

Good read Ketchn, this is a day of memories. I think your naughty guage is way close to the bottom, but the nice guage is about to pop. Your a good feller, and Merry Christmas from my house to yours.

[Ketchn]

Merry Christmas Ketchn! Sounds like you might get something under the tree after all. Need to find a long bamboo pole and smack the pecans out if tree. Much safer then climbing and jumping on the limbs. Pretty jigs.

that's an 11 foot bamboo in her hand my friend . all the lower limbs been previously picked clean by the local natives ...ie ...us .

[SuperDave336]

I want to say the bamboo we have is double that. It’s long and heavy and somewhat hard to handle but reaches way up into the tree so we don’t climb anymore. However you do it just please be careful. Our trees are mostly older and the limbs easily break from the weight of pecans and people...lol

[Ketchn]

yeah the tree is pretty young best I can tell and its one of the largest on our place , we have 16 and about half of them were flat out full of pecans . that there is the easiest tree we got . they are living in the wild and its a terrible jungle under most of them full of natures barbed wire ( green briar) .
I think we are about done collecting them this year as everyone is getting tired of it at this point . we had some folks do a cracking and somewhat shelling on a 5 gallon bucket full and picked two others to give away and the thrill is about gone

[SuperDave336]

I know the feeling. On good years it never seems to end. Bushel after bushel they just keep coming. The end result usually makes it all ok. Grandmother makes a great pecan pie!

[Ketchn]

I am sure enough glad I brought back some of the good old days memories for yawl and to be sure enjoyed the comments .
thanks for the reads and MERRY CHRISTMAS

[redfin00]

Merry Christmas!!

[S10CHEVY]

Sounds like our hickory nut trees here. Every other year, they are loaded. But this year, we had to have the 3 of them cut down. Too close to the house, and a bad storm started breaking some larger branches on them. Better safe than sorry. Still have a black walnut tree though.

[DonaAna1]

Ahhh pecans. My mom and dad had 6 in their yard in Anthony Texas. I had the job of picking them every year, at least until I went away for University. They sold the house when it and the yard got too much to handle. The pecans remind me of one that was in my Grandfathers house in San Marcus Tx. It was big when my dad was a boy. So by the time I climbed it, it was huge. That was back in the 60's. I did some naughty cursing when the family my grandfather sold the old house to and they cut the old thing down and paved paradise with a parking lot.
I just couldn't believe someone would do that. But, you know how ignorant some can be.