It’s walnut season in Dobrzyn, and Hili is schooling Cyrus. A note of explanation: when I told Malgorzata that she and Andrzej didn’t “break loose from a different food chain” from that occupied by Hili and Cyrus, but were on a different food chain, she explained:
Basically, you are right but there is a Polish saying “to break loose from a Christmas Tree” which means more or less “to be a bit crazy” or “silly”. In Polish, of course, this connection is obvious and Hili’s answer does not mean that we are on a different food chain but hints that being on the food chain we are on is just crazy and incomprehensible for a cat.
With that out of the way, on to the dialogue:
Cyrus: Why are they collecting all these walnuts?Hili: Because they broke loose from a different food chain.
Cyrus: Po co oni zbierają te wszystkie orzechy?
Hili: Bo oni się urwali z innego łańcucha pokarmowego.
I would be the most popular human among squirrels, mice & chipmunks if I had trees that produced nuts!
You’d be pretty popular amongst certain humans, too….
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Anyone here ever pickle walnuts? We helped some friends do this for a few years. They are harvested before the shell hardens, peeled, and then, well, pickled. Hey, I was just labor in this enterprise, not management. Don’t expect much detail.
The important thing is that they end up tasting like HP sauce, except in a cleaner, crisper, more homemade sort of way.
I had a Great Dane as a child, Duchess, who would eat the walnut shells as I cracked them to get the nuts out. Weird dog.
Is it weird that I first read that you had a Great Dane as a replacement for a child? My brain immediately envisioned a Great Dane in a pink bonnet.
Yes, it’s weird; carry on!
I have a husband as a child…
(J/K!)
so do I–now!
😉
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