My Barbara fed the piglets her apples. Now they can again live off the land.
That is exactly what we, too, did on our bike trip. When we saw the next walnut tree, we stopped and ate a few nuts. There were enough of them left to serve us as dessert after dinner. And I remembered how, many years ago when we were children, we collected all kinds of things. Many varieties of berries, beechnuts, all kinds of fruit, chestnuts, mushrooms, …
But then Aldi came along and the walnuts we ate came from California. Some way or other, I found this a great idea when I was younger – I mean: walnuts from California, wow! Today, I am in favour of regionalization and feel that walnuts from California are a negative example for global nonsense.
And a little later – what a coincidence! –, we watched the “Weltspiegel” on the German TV channel ARD in our Isidor hotel.
In this program, a US “walnut farmer” laments how the government of California is not capable of supplying enough water for him to grow his walnuts, because his trees are all shrivelling to nothingness due to a “century’s drought”.
He also says how he prays to God every day, asking him to send rain. Except he never mentions the “climate change” and the “American Way of Life”.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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