Renzatic on 9/11/2017 at 15:26
...just how old are you, Heywood?
heywood on 9/11/2017 at 15:47
45
Renzatic on 9/11/2017 at 15:50
I wasn't being serious. :P
The way you worded the above, it made it sound like you were reminiscence about a tree that died a full century ago. Yeah, I know. Lame joke. Get my coat. Blah blah. Ain't my fault. It's early.
Tommyph1208 on 9/11/2017 at 16:36
That would have to be the birch... In fact it also happens to be my sons name, “Birk” in danish :)
heywood on 9/11/2017 at 18:10
Renz - I only had a moment to reply before running to a meeting. The longer explanation is that I was a pretty outdoorsy kid. My Dad was too, and he knew his trees. He made sure we checked out out a wild chestnut when we had the rare opportunity to see one. Also, my younger brother majored in forestry, so whenever I see him and we go for a walk, he points stuff out.
This thread is making me want to clear some of my oaks to make space for planting some different trees. I hate to cut down a perfectly good tree though unless it's threatening my house.
Tocky on 10/11/2017 at 02:48
I recall the taste of chestnuts. Nothing else tastes anywhere near the same. To lose something unique is such a shame.
qolelis on 13/11/2017 at 00:43
Talking of chestnuts, I remember I had this recipe years ago for a cake containing chestnut cream, and went through a lot of effort finding it, searching everywhere, but no one had it. Then finally I found it -- and I want to say in the store on the corner where I lived, but that's not true; I don't remember where I found it. Anyway, I finally found this damn cream and it tasted a little weird, but, fuck it, it was too late to change recipes, so I made the cake anyway and hoped the cream would somehow transform into something delicious when combined with the other ingredients, but it didn't; the cake was in fact inedible -- and that, ladies and gentlemen, is unfortunately not how I met my soul mate and got my first job as a pastry chef.
Lhet on 14/11/2017 at 07:41
Madrona is pretty cool, and super unique, it has paper-thin bark and is smooth to the touch. My grandparents had a beach house with a very climbable Madrona tree and I enjoyed hanging out up there.
