Pecans

While waiting to pick Alayna up from school today, Cavell and I noticed one of the moms picking something up from the ground . . . and eating it!  When Alayna came to the van, and I went to buckle in Cavell, I realized there were pecans on the ground.  We gathered some.  10 of them.

Not all 10 are pictured.

We got to cracking.

and cracked some more.

Then we went to work peeling . . .

. . . and peeling . . .

 



. . . and peeled some more.

This took a lot more work than expected.  Cavell kept throwing the cracked shells into the nut bowl, some did still have the nut in them.  Alayna wasn't able to get any big pieces because she kept cracking her shell, and the nut, more to try and get them out.  Not that I was able to get many big pieces either.

A bit of toasting and we had pecans for snack time.

We saved some for Papa.

Yummy!

That was a lot of work for such a small treat, but we enjoyed the experience together.