With daylight savings on the horizon, the groundhog not
seeing his shadow, and pitchers and catchers reporting for spring training, it
seems reasonable to discuss one of Dad’s favorite spring activities: eating
nuts.
Now this is a year round activity, often times Dad takes
notice of the seasonal nut: Eating almonds and walnuts at Christmas, eating all
the nut candies in the fall for Halloween.
But spring marks Dad cracking open thousands of peanut shells, pistachios and
sunflower seeds.
Everyone eats seeds, from professional ball players to the
girls trying to look classy at the bar. (Side note: don’t ever eat nuts left at
the bar). But those habits, routines, and ability to eat the nut original
from Dad’s teaching.
Think about it. Dad is the first person you saw eat that
paper skin on peanuts. Dad taught you how to eat a sunflower seed by cracking
the shell in your mouth. “Don’t you dare use your hands.” And pistachios? Well
the shell-less nuts in the bag are for wimps. Dad treasures the nut not only
for its ability to show off his Dad strength
by cracking open the one that no one else can, but also for its “energy and
health purposes.” The $8 bag of trail mix at the airport is destined to be
inhaled by Dad. While you pick out the M&M’s, Dad takes a handful and
scarfs it all together to create a trail mix smoothie in his mouth. Gotta get that protein and fiber.
So as the snow melts and the flowers bloom across the coming
months, be on the look-out for sunflower seed packets and peanut bags to sweep
off the shelves. Dad will take a break from cracking your skull to shovel
the drive way and instead focus on cracking some nuts.
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