Ouch! Road trip with Parker and pals (plus a bucket) on my 2024 agenda. #Wordless Wednesday #Black Walnut Tree at Fair Lane Estate

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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35 Responses to Ouch! Road trip with Parker and pals (plus a bucket) on my 2024 agenda. #Wordless Wednesday #Black Walnut Tree at Fair Lane Estate

  1. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    January 3, 2024 at 6:51 am

    A good warning. I was standing under an oak tree this fall when acorns were falling. Thankfully I was not hit but when they hit the picnic table it sounded like it would hurt.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 3, 2024 at 9:23 pm

      We used to have two oak trees in the backyard – they were fairly big and had to be cut down as they got Carpenter Ants. We had a metal shed in the backyard and the trees would drop acorns and my mom would hear them in the middle of the night … the squirrels would hop onto the roof of the shed as it had grooves in the roof, so the acorns fell, collected in the grooves and they had a field day eating them! They may be small, but yes, I know what you mean Ruth.

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  2. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    January 3, 2024 at 9:53 am

    We need a sign like that in our backyard… pine cone missiles!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 3, 2024 at 9:38 pm

      It’s like that in some of the big parks here Dave – in the Fall when they are dropping from huge trees and in the Spring when they fall down, they’re sticky with resin. The squirrels pull them down to eat them when they’re green. I don’t know how their insides don’t stick together from eating them. 🙂

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  3. Tofino Photography's avatar Tofino Photography says:
    January 3, 2024 at 12:10 pm

    I wonder how small they make construction helmets, but the thought of a bunch of squirrels running around with them on is too funny!

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  4. TD's avatar TD says:
    January 3, 2024 at 2:05 pm

    Funny Linda!

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  5. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    January 3, 2024 at 11:03 pm

    Very nice & helpful intraction. Falling walnuts!

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  6. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    January 4, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    Those nuts are as hard as rocks! I’m amazed how strong squirrel teeth must be to get them open.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 4, 2024 at 9:01 pm

      I know! They can demolish one pretty quickly Barbara. I watch them and they look for the outside crack/thin opening and it falls apart. When the Black Walnuts ripen in the trees at the Park, the squirrels grab them and throw the green “peel” all over the place, then crack open the walnut.

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  7. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    January 4, 2024 at 10:14 pm

    Confucius said, “Man who is hit in the head by falling Walnuts ends up getting nuts.” 🙄

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  8. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    January 5, 2024 at 9:57 am

    hahaha that’s a cute sign! Sometimes when we are camping, we can hear them throwing the nuts down on to the roof of our trailer, it’s very loud ! lol

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 5, 2024 at 8:45 pm

      I thought it was cute too Susan. It was under a very large Black Walnut tree. You’d better check to see if there are dents on your trailer roof! We had two Oak trees in the backyard and a metal shed and the acorns would fall off in the middle of the night onto the metal shed roof, then roll into the grooves on the roof. You’d hear pinging noises as they fell, then rolled. The neighborhood squirrels loved it – just hopped up there and the nuts were already collected for them. 🙂

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  9. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    January 6, 2024 at 5:54 am

    A good sign to capture and share. It’s wise to watch out for falling walnuts. Plus they’re messy on the ground and hard to walk on. We had a neighbor who had a walnut tree over the parking lot and the year that tree dropped so many suddenly wasn’t kind to the windshield on his car. 😲🤔

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  10. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    January 7, 2024 at 1:19 pm

    A falling walnut, regardless of the type, would hurt if it fell on your head. While I usually make fun of signs like this one, in this case I like it.

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  11. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    January 7, 2024 at 9:33 pm

    What a perfect sign for a walnut tree. Not only will they knock your socks off if they hit you, they stain like crazy!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      January 8, 2024 at 8:20 pm

      I have not been hit … yet. 🙂 There are Black Walnut trees at the Park. The squirrels get the walnuts when they have green rinds on them and chew the rinds off … little piles of green everywhere. I’ll have to notice the stains too. Probably the squirrels snatch them up so quickly, they don’t get time to stain the perimeter path!

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  12. J P's avatar J P says:
    January 17, 2024 at 8:08 pm

    I need this sign for my house. We have two black walnut trees in the front yard, and one spreads over the driveway and front sidewalk.

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