This was one of my most important discoveries! It happened after my Vet gave me these pills called "Prednisone" I don't know what that is, but after I started taking them I noticed that I wasn't so picky about what I ate cuz I was hungry all the time.
Anyway, I was checking the perimeter one day when I stumbled onto these crazy black berries all over my backyard! Even though it wasn't even close to dinner time, my tummy was already rumbling so I decided to give 'em a taste. Wow! They tasted amazing, so I quickly ate as many as I could before Rhonda came outside and yelled at me to stop! (She's a little overprotective and she thought they might be poisonous, silly lady!)
Well, Glen is a lot smarter than Rhonda about nature stuff cuz he's a farm kid. He told me they were called Hackberries and that I could eat as many as I wanted unless they gave me diarrhea. Man, that sounded awful, so I sure didn't want to get that. But whenever I'm out in the backyard I can't stop myself from piggin' out on them!
In case you ever want to try them like Rhonda did, they have this crispy shell on the outside, a delicious sweet juice with a huge seed on the inside.
Know what? When Maddie came over, I told her about Hackberries and she taught me how to graze for them. Before that, I just looked for the twigs that fell off the trees and I stripped the berries off with my teeth. But Maddie's pretty smart, too, and she said, "Hey Dummy, why don't you just eat the ones that fell off the trees that are laying all over the ground!"
I started to worry that Maddie was gonna eat all my yummy hackberries but she said, "Royal, you are a fool...look up! The trees are loaded!!"
Oh wow - Royal blogged!?! That's so exciting! Maddie is mad that mommy's yard doesn't have hackberries. She hopes she gets to go to Grandma and Grandpa's soon to eat more!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if a hackberry pie would be nice?
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