hunters and gathers - Part II

In late October, we were out hunting and gathering walnuts that fell in our yard. Walnuts are called dio in Hungarian and are a mainstay in Hungarian cooking and pastry. Dio is also the name of the 1980's American heavy metal band formed by former Black Sabbath band member Ronnie James Dio. These coincidences amuse us...

Anyway... We spent a few hours last Sunday cracking walnuts with our vice grips and listening to This American Life. It was like meditating. Cracking...listening to story-telling...cracking...

We doubt that earlier hunters and gathers had the luxury of listening to Ira Glass host yet another thought provoking episode of This American Life...let alone vice grips to crack their walnuts. Yet another reason to count our blessings!

after cracking over 100 walnuts, we had this