Extreme sport file: collecting chestnuts
Sep. 22nd, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mollyringleMy younger sister Peggy reports the following from Portland, Oregon:
They have a chestnut tree along the street outside their house. Every year about this time, Asian families (and only Asians) come by with plastic bags to collect the chestnuts. She sees them out there as early as 7:30 a.m., when she's leaving for work. The other day, from the house, she could see over their high fence that their yellow recycle bins, which were out on the parking strip, were being flung in the air repeatedly against the tree, causing chestnuts to rain down. Many giggles accompanied this activity. And this morning, at rush hour, a tiny Asian man (she estimates 5'1" and 110 lbs) with a bucket and gloves was darting into the busy street to pick up nuts, waiting on the center line while cars zoomed by, and darting back across the lanes to get the chestnuts, over and over.
Now that is some commitment to stir-fry.
P.S. Check my userinfo and sign the brick wall, dudes.
P.P.S. Edited to add: Peggy also informs me, just now, that when you do a Google image search on "pretty goth" (not in quotes, just the separate words), the fifth picture that comes up is...me. In slightly Goth makeup for Halloween once. Uh...whoa. Hehe.
They have a chestnut tree along the street outside their house. Every year about this time, Asian families (and only Asians) come by with plastic bags to collect the chestnuts. She sees them out there as early as 7:30 a.m., when she's leaving for work. The other day, from the house, she could see over their high fence that their yellow recycle bins, which were out on the parking strip, were being flung in the air repeatedly against the tree, causing chestnuts to rain down. Many giggles accompanied this activity. And this morning, at rush hour, a tiny Asian man (she estimates 5'1" and 110 lbs) with a bucket and gloves was darting into the busy street to pick up nuts, waiting on the center line while cars zoomed by, and darting back across the lanes to get the chestnuts, over and over.
Now that is some commitment to stir-fry.
P.S. Check my userinfo and sign the brick wall, dudes.
P.P.S. Edited to add: Peggy also informs me, just now, that when you do a Google image search on "pretty goth" (not in quotes, just the separate words), the fifth picture that comes up is...me. In slightly Goth makeup for Halloween once. Uh...whoa. Hehe.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:00 pm (UTC). . . which could be lemonlye for all I know.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:05 pm (UTC)Wonder if we're changing Google's results by having this post up? I hear Google's auto-spiders find and catalog LJ stuff pretty quickly since it's so link-intensive.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:07 pm (UTC)I like the "normal" pic of you on the same page. You're pretty; I like the way your smile touches your eyes.
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Date: 2006-09-23 04:54 pm (UTC)Yes, one can know where my LJ is or where it's headed, but never both at once...