Comments on: There Is a New Kind of Plague http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm Listening to The Voice Within Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:16:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Charles Fines http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44035 Charles Fines Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:48:47 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44035 Hello, One, acorns are not so much tasty as nutritious, or at least will get you by in a pinch. The meat needs to be soaked in water to dissolve out the tannic acid which is bitter. It can be ground up for use like flour in making bread or added to soups and stews. An old name for nuts that fall from forest trees is "mast". Acorns are an important food source for deer and bears and other wild critters bigger than a squirrel as they get ready for winter, and also free ranging pigs. My dogs enjoy playing with acorns, tossing them up in the air and playing keep-away, sometimes stopping to gnaw them like a bone. My job is greenskeeper on a golf course. This time of year I have to dig out acorns that squirrels have buried in my #4 green. Don't tell my golfers, but I hope that someday oak trees are allowed to grow there. So do the deer. Hello, One, acorns are not so much tasty as nutritious, or at least will get you by in a pinch. The meat needs to be soaked in water to dissolve out the tannic acid which is bitter. It can be ground up for use like flour in making bread or added to soups and stews.

An old name for nuts that fall from forest trees is “mast”. Acorns are an important food source for deer and bears and other wild critters bigger than a squirrel as they get ready for winter, and also free ranging pigs. My dogs enjoy playing with acorns, tossing them up in the air and playing keep-away, sometimes stopping to gnaw them like a bone.

My job is greenskeeper on a golf course. This time of year I have to dig out acorns that squirrels have buried in my #4 green. Don’t tell my golfers, but I hope that someday oak trees are allowed to grow there. So do the deer.

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44034 Gloria Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:40:58 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44034 We don't so far as I know. Okay, I will taste one and let you know. See you later. We don’t so far as I know. Okay, I will taste one and let you know. See you later.

]]> By: One http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44019 One Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:04:53 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-44019 Are Acorns tasty? Do we also eat them? Are Acorns tasty? Do we also eat them?

]]> By: Lisa Augustine http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43706 Lisa Augustine Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:50:09 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43706 I love Acorns! Yayy, it's nice to know the plants and trees did well this year and had so much fruit!! I noticed alot of acorns in my neighborhood too, and lots of squirrels and chipmunks. Those critters are sooo cute! Well i've been picking up all the loose acorn caps and making crafty things with them..and using them to decorate fairy cabins I'm making. They are beautiful :-) I love Acorns! Yayy, it’s nice to know the plants and trees did well this year and had so much fruit!! I noticed alot of acorns in my neighborhood too, and lots of squirrels and chipmunks. Those critters are sooo cute!

Well i’ve been picking up all the loose acorn caps and making crafty things with them..and using them to decorate fairy cabins I’m making. They are beautiful :-)

]]> By: Lauren http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43455 Lauren Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:08:51 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43455 I still think the squirrels are throwing acorns at us. I still think the squirrels are throwing acorns at us.

]]> By: Jochen http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43282 Jochen Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:06:26 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43282 Do you have those crows that pick walnuts and drop them from considerable hight on whatever seems hard enough to break them open? Quite impressive to have something like that crash down on the macadam two steps in front of you. Do you have those crows that pick walnuts and drop them from considerable hight on whatever seems hard enough to break them open? Quite impressive to have something like that crash down on the macadam two steps in front of you.

]]> By: Jack van Raders http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43280 Jack van Raders Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:26:36 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43280 Falling Acorns, why, you must have a beautiful Big Oak tree, Lucky you! Wear a helmet as the construction workers do. You will look beautiful wearing that. We have had a bumper year with citrus fruit and banana's, so much, we cannot eat it all. but the birds are happy with it. They sing for us. Still some fruit on the citrus and they are blooming already for the next crop. And our bees are busing and making Honey. sun shining and we had some rain to make it all perfect. Greetings from Paradise Jack Falling Acorns, why, you must have a beautiful Big Oak tree, Lucky you! Wear a helmet as the construction workers do. You will look beautiful wearing that. We have had a bumper year with citrus fruit and banana’s, so much, we cannot eat it all. but the birds are happy with it. They sing for us. Still some fruit on the citrus and they are blooming already for the next crop. And our bees are busing and making Honey. sun shining and we had some rain to make it all perfect. Greetings from Paradise Jack

]]> By: Gloria http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43266 Gloria Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:15:07 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43266 Well, beloved Marko, I see God is not the only one laughing! I never made the connection between today's HL and the blog entry! The squirrels will be well-fed over the winter, and that's good, but must the acorns bop me on the head? Sometimes people have to be hit over the head! But what is the message for me? Marko, thanks for the fun! Well, beloved Marko, I see God is not the only one laughing!

I never made the connection between today’s HL and the blog entry!

The squirrels will be well-fed over the winter, and that’s good, but must the acorns bop me on the head?

Sometimes people have to be hit over the head! But what is the message for me?

Marko, thanks for the fun!

]]> By: Marko http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43264 Marko Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:04:35 +0000 http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/there-is-a-new-kind-of-plague-acorns.htm#comment-43264 Well beloved Gloria, given Heavenletters topic "The Palm of Your Hand" today, I might just wonder if looking, what possible positive blessing could result of this raining of acorns? That the coincidence of today's HL and your blog entry are not united in some cosmic way, smiling and laughing a little as God has a good chuckle at your own positive expense? Well beloved Gloria, given Heavenletters topic “The Palm of Your Hand” today, I might just wonder if looking, what possible positive blessing could result of this raining of acorns?

That the coincidence of today’s HL and your blog entry are not united in some cosmic way, smiling and laughing a little as God has a good chuckle at your own positive expense?

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