I'm a nut, but my wife has a nut wizard!


My wife recently had a birthday, and she told us what she really wanted. No, not jewelry, or flowers or anything like that -- she wanted the same tool our neighbor at our new house had for picking up sweet gum balls. It is a strange contraption that looks like a rotating whisk at the end of a pole, somewhat like you would see at a bingo game. So then we had to find one! The local Lowes, Home Depot or other hardware stores did not seem to carry them so I looked online (Thanks again, Google!).

What I found was it is a "Nut Wizard" and it is sold several places, including online and locally by some fellow named Dick Level who grabbed the domain name thenutwizard.com. Since I realized the guy lived locally in the St. Louis area, I thought I would call him just to see if he knew where I could buy one nearby. He just told me to give him my credit card information and he would ship one out. Well, since I was the one who called him, and he is easily tracked by his phone and website, I gave it a shot and gave him the info on our least used credit card with the lowest limit (the one we use online most of the time). Sure enough in two days the magical tool showed up at our house ready to be used. My wife has now used it a few times and it works great.

You simply roll the large ball on the ground and the sweet gum balls slip inside the wires and very soon you have a whole bunch of them inside the wired ball. It is too bad there is no practical use for sweet gum balls, since we sure can collect a lot of them now. We have a massive gum ball tree in our yard and each neighbor on each side of us has one too. The annual harvest from our neighborhood could probably produce enough gum balls to build a small house if you could glue them all together. One thing I found amazing while Googling for the nut wizard is that some people actually try selling sweet gum balls on eBay. I cannot imagine anyone actually buying them! If anyone wants more I will sell them to you!

Comments

Anonymous said…
it's a really nice blog thanks for add my comment...

Play you bingo games, learn how to play bingo, online bingo games with us and if you want to read bingo rules and all about bingo games then click on www.yourbingogame.com and get fun all your bingo games.Bingo Rules
5:33 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BMI & BMR Calculator (Body Mass Index and Basal Metabolic Rate)

Image
My wife has been researching type 2 diabetes and recently checked a book out of the library which included a body mass index (BMI) chart much like the one pictured here. Whereas it is fairly easy to follow, I, of course, think it must be converted to an online calculator! However, when I checked the Internet, there were already a billion of them so I had to make one that was different. So my lovely BMI BMR calculator accepts either inches or centimeters for your height and pounds or kilograms for your weight and calculates not only your BMI, but also your BMR (basal metabolic rate) which determines how many calories you should consume! So I made a spiffy "all in one" healthy body indicator calculator which not only determines how underweight or overweight you are, but also tells you how many calories you should consume to maintain or improve your ideal weight. 
Read more

Trying out the L'Ecole Culinaire Presentation Room restaurant

Image
We had been seeing the ads for the restaurant at L'Ecole Culinaire and since we live so close by we thought we would try it out. We had always enjoyed dining out at cooking or hotel schools like the CHIC in Chicago and the Statler at Cornell where we went to college. Since we still love to go out and eat here in St. Louis , we ventured over to their restaurant on the first day they were open for lunch. The first thing we noticed is that they do not have much parking! They really need to let patrons know where they are supposed to park. The restaurant itself is small but very well attended. There was one fellow who kept straightening all the centerpieces and place settings on the tables, and we always saw one or two student workers milling about. The lunch menu was small and the choices did not appear overly "gourmet". The special of the day was a bison burger stuffed with cheese, and other choices picked by my group included a club sandwich, a "margherita" pi
Read more

Not all Frosted Window Films are the same!

Image
We live in an older home with a lot of issues and one of them concerns our back door to our patio from our sunroom. The door has double paned glass on it, but unfortunately the seal has broken so you can see moisture collect inside of it. We decided the easiest way to "remedy" the problem was to cover the window with some "frosted" film so we did not have to see the moisture condensing between the panes. But the question was, what film? There are a bunch of them available so we had to select something to try on the door. The first place we tried was our nearby Lowe's store which had a bunch of Gila brand film. We selected what seemed like the typical adhesive based door sized  film that cost about $25 after tax. We thought it could not be that hard to put up and look nice on our door. So one day my wife ran out and purchased it at Lowe's and we commenced to install it on our door window. We made our own soapy water solution and followed the directions
Read more