the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

as i was shelling out some Purple Dove beans last night (after doing a different box of mixed beans with much tougher pods to shell) i was thinking i should try to make a short video of that since they are so easy to do in comparison - except i don't have a stand or tri-pod for the camera and not really any other easy way to do it and i wasn't in the mood for fiddling around that late either. so you just have to imagine some long, thin and papery pods that have a degree of shatter trait in them so that if you just squeeze them a little bit and the pods almost spring wide open and most of the beans just fall out.

 

[flowerbug]

this morning's adventure in bean sorting and shelling was an unlucky bounce when the bean i was looking at was dropped and managed to bounce off the flat and into the bag of shelled out pods and rejects.

it was one of about a dozen beans that i was interested in so i shook the bag to get the bean down towards the bottom and then emptied it gradually while still shaking to get the bean at the bottom with all the rest and then dumped those out in a tray to find the specific bean i was after again.

it wasn't too bad to do and took less than 10 minutes, but funny to me how sometimes you get these lucky bounces that end up in places you'd not expect.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Glad you found it! Not sure I would've been so persistent.

 

[Mini Horses]

I would have said "so long bean" with so many there.

 

[flowerbug]

Glad you found it! Not sure I would've been so persistent.

10 minutes isn't that much and i was very glad it was not yet another brown bean (if it was i'd have likely let it stay in the bag).

 

[flowerbug]

to celebrate snow on the ground this morning i was playing Christmas music. it makes Mom laugh. i shovelled for a few minutes (just because some fresh air and exercise would be nice and it was). the sun is out and the sky is blue. sparkles on snow, but the snow will soon be melted off at this rate.

i did take pictures. will post some eventually, but not likely today or any time soon. i'm in the middle of changing things a bit so i don't want to mess that up until i'm further along.