On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:38:08 -0500, "modom (palindrome guy)"
> wrote:

>Cruel irony this week came in the form of an overabundant pecan
>crop-to-be.
>
>We came out of a nearly two-year drought this summer. The drought
>ended decisively when more than 2/3 the normal annual rainfall
>happened in six weeks.
>
>The local pecan trees, stressed by the previous months of drought,
>have bounced back assertively with thousands of huge green pecans on
>them, waiting to drop in October. But the weight is too great. I'm
>losing limbs almost daily. This afternoon we came home to see a major
>one had snapped under the load while we were in Dallas.
>
>Cruel irony = the pecan harvest will be diminished because there are
>too many pecans and they're too big.
>--
>
>modom

That is a cruel irony. It is always *something* in farming!

So sorry.

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