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Acorns are not just for annoying anymore!
Starting in September and continuing for a month or more, all night long the rat-a-tat of acorn pellets echoes through the driveway and yard. The noise happens during the day as well, but it's not quite as annoying. The sound of an acorn being shoved off a tree by a squirrel or bird and the subsequent 30 foot fall onto the top of a metal vehicle in the middle of the night makes a sound akin to a mini firecracker. Kapow! Kaboom! Those stupid acorns are useless!!!  Or are they?
 
This year I decided to try something a little different, and I researched ways to use acorns. With thousands of them laying around on the ground, there has to be something useful to do with them besides cursing them out. So, I did some investigating into potential uses and here's what I tried this weekend...
 
To start, I collected a few hundred acorns. I picked the ones with no cap that were a dark brown color and whole. Anything that looked smushed or perhaps buggy I left alone. The acorns I picked were from white oak trees.
 
Then I opened each and every acorn, peeling the outside cover off, and I was left with a bowl ... more

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