On the way to physical therapy;y I pass the city compost area. I often stop here to pick up flowers, bulbs, plants, ect that others throw out and I 'recycle' them into my yard and home. If I had to pay for all that was in my yard I could not begin to afford it! I am so grateful for this as I have a beautiful yard come spring and summer. Even the evergreen shrubs that adorn my porch area were 'recycled' from our church. Anyways, as I was heading to PT I happened to notice what looked like small apples and; curiosity being my best and worst asset, I had to check it our. They were not apples.......they were walnuts! I filled a walmart bag and a box I had and went on my way. When I picked Ron up from college I told him about it. We stopped where we could pick up more bags and headed down there. We filled another 6-7 bags and went home. Until I can get to them, Ron put them in our cartop carrier (filled it) so the squirrels and chikmunks can't get to them. I sat here tonight and doing up a couple of bag worth. Now some of you may know and others may not. Walnuts are quite and interesting thing to process. I looked up on the internet and found out the easiest way to do them. I wore gloves because the juice from the skins are staining and there is nothing that can get it out of your skin......not even bleach. Interestingly, when you cut into the outer skin the inside is actually yellow. Even the juice on my gloves was yellow. It is not till the air gets to it that it begins to turn black not unlike an avocado. I lucked out the first time but the second time the right had broke through and the next time the left. I know have brown thumbs (both literally and figuratively LOL). I tired so many combinations of cleaners to get off the stains to no avail. I even combined bleach with hand soap....it got real warm and stinky but it didn't take the stain off. Even soaking in bleach! It reduced how dark but it did not remove it. Walnuts are delicious. And so is so much that satan tempts us with. Often we do not see the good part of the temptation and not until it is often too late do we realize that it has left a stain. This could be something as simple as a song you listen to. Or it could be a magazine you see, the TV program, the novels you get caught up in, the 'innocent' flirting, etc. You really do not see where it is going to lead you till it is too late. I ask you to please, please as for your heavenly Father to give you the eyes of His Son to look through. To take the blinders off that you may see what there is in your life that is leading you away from Him. Our heavenly Father promises that "Though your sin be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red (or in my case brown) as crimson they shall be as wool."
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