My brother stopped by to visit and I told him about the “what it is” I posted. He asked to look at the “thing”. After only a minute he said; “If I were to guess, I’d say it was for cracking pecans.”
I Googled “pecan cracker” for images and he was right! There are lots of images [...]

There is a fig tree where I live. To be honest, it looks more like a bush because it is actually 3 or 4 trees that are clumped. According to the owners of the property, no one has ever harvested the figs because they go by so quickly.
That last part is very true. I picked [...]

This year the fig tree was very productive. I harvested as fast as I could but often was in a race - let them stay on the tree long enough to ripen and get sweet but not so long as to give the ants, birds, insects, etc. too much of a head start. I estimated [...]