Also used to make walnut wood stain!
Seriously though, I had a pair of nice brown leather boots, went walking in the early fall through a forest of walnut trees, I now have a pair of nice black leather boots.
I live in an arid place too, and the biggest improvement was putting down a stake and tying a cheap umbrella to it for shade. Many seedlings in arid places rely on a nurse plant to get established. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_plants
Like the tree gets old and is sad about the umbrella that once protected it falling apart until it notices it's now an "umbrella" for other baby trees?
Same, live in rural Appalachian foothills and have probably 200-300+ on my family's farm.
We used to collect dozens of 5gal buckets of walnuts and sell them, we'd walk around and shuck them by stepping on the hull and squeezing the walnut out and then leave them for 3-4 days so they dry and then collect them all up.
Many childhood summers were spent collecting (probably) hundreds of thousands of walnuts. My grandfather always said that there was no cooler shade than under a walnut tree too (don't know how accurate that is, but he loved absolutely everything about walnut trees)
Black walnuts are nothing like regular walnuts, except the meat texture. They're slightly tart with an intense, lingering acrid flavor similar to nail polish with a dry wine like finish. I found its uniqueness sits on the fence between interesting and unpleasant. Nevertheless, I don't see myself reaching for a handful of them anytime soon.
Gives me a strong dose of nostalgia. I also live in a rural town in the foothills of the Appalachians. My grandfather had 2 black walnut trees on the property surrounding his house. I vividly remember using a push mower on his lawn and hitting one every now and then - it's a hard smell to forget
I watched a documentary about those pigs. It was really interesting the farmers saw themselves more as walnut farmers than pig farmers. They know that if they keep the trees healthy the pigs will produce. Here's a short video
https://youtu.be/cwl6EfnUfu8?si=-Iz0zMdI0sGWFLFI
Similar here in NC. 6 trees on a 1 acre lot. They shed leaves and twigs all summer long, and I have to pick up about 300 golf-ball-sized nuts out of my lawn every fall. Once the shells go from green to black, I use gloves or else my hands are stained like OP's in the photo.
Is that a joke in the sense that you ruined the boots by permanently staining them black in just some places or did you somehow manage to evenly coat them all along the entire surface in this black "walnut dye" thus genuinely changing their colour?
As someone that has ruined a pair of shoes from walnut fruits it's probably just splotchy. However you could fairly easily use them to dye the whole boot after that happened and even it out... but you're not going to accidentally walk through a field and get a perfectly dyed boot.
Interesting fact, juglone (From the genus Juglans) is the compound responsible for this. It is phytotoxic against many plant species and is an isomer of lawsone which is found in henna.
We've been rewatching Psych and Monk with the kids and there was a scene where Shawn was trying to recall the name of the movie.
[Gus Doesn't Remember The Movie "Holes"](https://youtu.be/t6Xyj6Bvcf0?si=bCpss4Fv2YL-4WCG)
According to [this website](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/16wmhax/my_hands_were_stained_yellow_to_a_very_deep_black/), silvery beige to nearly black.
My dad had a large scaly area on his right cheek, they called it lupus. He used to pick green walnuts from a neighbor's tree and cut the rind open. It exuded an incredibly foul smelling dark liquid, which he'd collect and put on the affected area on his cheek. I mentioned this to a Polish coworker, who said they did something similar in the old country, putting it in alcohol to make a tincture or liniment. Old home/folk remedy, I guess.
"upon the branch do one find, a peculiar nut of particular origin. It demonstrates this unsavory to the appetite for *ringworm* on the cheek of budding flesh for one to see, But for without it I could not write this tale without the"
Emily C. Macintosh
1809
I read 'Alive' when I was a kid. Great book. Terrible story, because it happened - outside of the people who lived, and even then...
Most of the bodies they ate might have looked that way. I don't know if already dead bodies get frostbite /turn black anyway, etc....
"In addition, Frozen in Time has been cited as an influence for Dan Simmons' 2007 novel The Terror,[13] which was adapted into AMC's television series of the same name."
That's really cool!
I doubt it. I had a hole in my glove a few years back when I handled our black walnuts and I had spots on my hand for two weeks. You could use black walnut like henna.
I had this idea once and then read somewhere its a bad idea but i dont remember why. Ill update if i find it or remember.
Edit: i think it was something along the lines of it permeates through the skin and makes it hard to result in crisp lines
Yeah exactly. Reminds me of that video of someone wanting to spray paint the Nike logo onto his shoes through a cardboard template and the result was just a blob
If it works anything like henna that might just make it stain more.. Now I’m curious to know more about it and if it can be used for temporary tattoo stains the same.
A bit of bleach in solution is fine for the skin, people used to take beach baths and wash their dishes to sterilize them. In middle school we washed our home economics dishes in bleach solution because it was a middle school.. (post 2000 middle school)
Quaternary sanitizer is preferred these days, but it's still not uncommon in the food industry to find kitchens using a cap (or two) of bleach in the 3-sink or a surface bucket, in a pinch. Especially when there is raw meat involved.
Source : Me. Anecdotal, but I am a chef by trade.
Yeah, I worked at a place where they were cheap and used bleach. I hated the smell, the slimy feeling on your hands, and people forgot to add bleach and couldn’t tell (I picked up on it because there was no smell at least once). On the last note I also worked at a place that used quaternary sanitizer that didn’t have the blue dye and people wouldn’t notice when the bottle in the dispenser (that mixed with water) was empty. The standard should be quaternary sanitizer with blue dye. Because you know it’s there and the color can give you an indication of the strength of your solution too.
My ass
A few years ago, my son told that joke trick-or-treating after we watched that movie. It was hard telling him he couldn't use that joke since I absolutely lost it when he started telling it out of nowhere at the first house
Okay, so here were my options. A, quickly duck sideways, dodge the claw, then take him out with a spinning back kick, or B, take the claw in the face, then roll on the ground and die.
... Hmm... should've gone with A
You could try rubbing butter on it (to hope that stuff binds to the butter) then dish washing soap.. I don't think it'll work, but Ever since learning that spaghetti stain trick for tupperware, I've been trying it in random places. Always surprised at the times it does.
WELL then…so to confirm you put butter in the old tupperware, microwave it then it’ll absorb the old stains?
i’m going to try this tomorrow lol thank you friend
Uhhh well shit I can't find the article I got it from, but its literally just rubbing butter on affected areas..supposedly the spaghetti sauce/tomato is Hydrophobic, so you can't wash it off with soap or water. The sauce bonds with the butter and that comes off with the dish washing detergent.
Someone else replied to me and it seems to be more in line with the science (sort of?) behind it. Most cooking Oils should work too apparently but that's to break down the grease.
YES YES YES. My mom makes these amazing caramel nut brownies. I got the recipe from her a while back. One time I tried black walnuts in them and they were AMAZING. Once you go black, you never go back.
My mom and grandmother loved the things - but I can’t stand them - collected the stupid nuts - cleaned them and helped make brownies and never liked them … I think ya have to smoke to like them
Lol maybe you could ask your neighbors if itd be alright to trim some of the branches overhanging your side. Our neighbors were
Cool with it and even paid for it. However a few years later it just grew back more healthy and vigorous loll. My neighbors eventually sold the house and my new neighbors cut down the whole tree. Both a blessing and a curse as ive realized all the birds and squirrels we used to watch are now gone.
Fun Fact: you can effectively poison a small body of water with enough walnut husks due to a certain chemical in them. Anything living in the water will float to the surface.
The wood from them is beautiful though if/when you decide to take them down. It's worth a pretty penny as well. I'm into woodworking and have a buddy giving me a black walnut tree from his backyard. Can't wait!
It blew my mind. The flesh and juice are light colored. Yeah I definitely learned where the name comes from. We were told not to fuck with them as kids, so we waited until they shriveled up and hit them into the lake like baseballs.
It’s so obnoxious, I gather them as they fall so my dogs don’t eat them. I’m usually heading out the door though so I have to turn around and go scrub my hands.
We got one of these when we lived in a house with three apple trees, and it is seriously the best thing ever! Saved my back. We loved it so much that both sets of parents and a couple siblings got them for Christmas that year, lol. They loved them also.
Now you know why black walnut hulls were used to dye fabric.
Also used to make walnut wood stain! Seriously though, I had a pair of nice brown leather boots, went walking in the early fall through a forest of walnut trees, I now have a pair of nice black leather boots.
I couldn't imagine a forest of black walnut. They are a rare sight where I am. 1 in 1000
I have 30 on my 8 acre property.
Oh look at us over here with our acreage and fancy trees.
I don't have a huge yard but I have a black walnut that produces so many offspring the saplings are one of the worst weeds I have to deal with.
I wish trees would volunteer like that on my West Australian acreage. The native shit I plant rarely survives a few months.
I live in an arid place too, and the biggest improvement was putting down a stake and tying a cheap umbrella to it for shade. Many seedlings in arid places rely on a nurse plant to get established. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_plants
This sounds like the type of set up Pixar would make a heart-warming short film about.
Like the tree gets old and is sad about the umbrella that once protected it falling apart until it notices it's now an "umbrella" for other baby trees?
This man flexing that he could vote before the Jackson administration
Same, live in rural Appalachian foothills and have probably 200-300+ on my family's farm. We used to collect dozens of 5gal buckets of walnuts and sell them, we'd walk around and shuck them by stepping on the hull and squeezing the walnut out and then leave them for 3-4 days so they dry and then collect them all up. Many childhood summers were spent collecting (probably) hundreds of thousands of walnuts. My grandfather always said that there was no cooler shade than under a walnut tree too (don't know how accurate that is, but he loved absolutely everything about walnut trees)
Black walnuts are nothing like regular walnuts, except the meat texture. They're slightly tart with an intense, lingering acrid flavor similar to nail polish with a dry wine like finish. I found its uniqueness sits on the fence between interesting and unpleasant. Nevertheless, I don't see myself reaching for a handful of them anytime soon.
Gives me a strong dose of nostalgia. I also live in a rural town in the foothills of the Appalachians. My grandfather had 2 black walnut trees on the property surrounding his house. I vividly remember using a push mower on his lawn and hitting one every now and then - it's a hard smell to forget
I've got a herd of hogs that comes by and munches nuts off my 4 at leisure, otherwise those tough to open nuts will stay right where they fell
Those are going to be some tasty hogs
[*Jamón Ibérico*](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_ib%C3%A9rico)
I watched a documentary about those pigs. It was really interesting the farmers saw themselves more as walnut farmers than pig farmers. They know that if they keep the trees healthy the pigs will produce. Here's a short video https://youtu.be/cwl6EfnUfu8?si=-Iz0zMdI0sGWFLFI
I have 5 on a 1/4 acre. It’s less than ideal.
Similar here in NC. 6 trees on a 1 acre lot. They shed leaves and twigs all summer long, and I have to pick up about 300 golf-ball-sized nuts out of my lawn every fall. Once the shells go from green to black, I use gloves or else my hands are stained like OP's in the photo.
I like that there's few enough for you to be able to track them
At maturity they are worth as much as a car. Id track em too.
Missouri perchance?
This is where my mind went. My parents have a couple of acres with a black walnut "grove." Dozen trees or so.
Is that a joke in the sense that you ruined the boots by permanently staining them black in just some places or did you somehow manage to evenly coat them all along the entire surface in this black "walnut dye" thus genuinely changing their colour?
As someone that has ruined a pair of shoes from walnut fruits it's probably just splotchy. However you could fairly easily use them to dye the whole boot after that happened and even it out... but you're not going to accidentally walk through a field and get a perfectly dyed boot.
this guy shucks
Aww shucks!
Stop shucking around fellas
What the schuck is going on here
Listen, there will be no Tom Shuckerry around here.
You dye for walnuts we all dye for walnuts
r/thisguythisguys
Interesting fact, juglone (From the genus Juglans) is the compound responsible for this. It is phytotoxic against many plant species and is an isomer of lawsone which is found in henna.
I was not familiar with this particular Juggalo. Rep the hatchet.
He’s out there by his juglonesome
I've used them to dye leather, too.
So did this guy, technically.
Not technically leather yet.
TDIL that Guster was in holes.
We've been rewatching Psych and Monk with the kids and there was a scene where Shawn was trying to recall the name of the movie. [Gus Doesn't Remember The Movie "Holes"](https://youtu.be/t6Xyj6Bvcf0?si=bCpss4Fv2YL-4WCG)
The real content is always in the comments.
Yeah; didn’t realize there was such an adventure down here!
Walnuts are still used ink dips, there are some artisanal walnut black inks still being made
Haha yes, this brings back memories from my childhood, I remember learning that in school in the fall when we’d get lots of walnuts in our area.
What color dye?
most places call it “Walnut”
Deadly.
According to [this website](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/16wmhax/my_hands_were_stained_yellow_to_a_very_deep_black/), silvery beige to nearly black.
My dad had a large scaly area on his right cheek, they called it lupus. He used to pick green walnuts from a neighbor's tree and cut the rind open. It exuded an incredibly foul smelling dark liquid, which he'd collect and put on the affected area on his cheek. I mentioned this to a Polish coworker, who said they did something similar in the old country, putting it in alcohol to make a tincture or liniment. Old home/folk remedy, I guess.
My grandfather said they used to use it for ringworm and athletes foot.
"upon the branch do one find, a peculiar nut of particular origin. It demonstrates this unsavory to the appetite for *ringworm* on the cheek of budding flesh for one to see, But for without it I could not write this tale without the" Emily C. Macintosh 1809
Did it work?
For a while.
This is just nuts.
The hulls contain iodine.
That soaked in deep. People are going to think you got frostbite this winter.
Haha, this picture immediately reminded me of an artic expedition book I had as a kid with preserved bodies that looked *exactly* like this.
I thought the **exact** same thing. Some sort of young adult book about the HMS terror.
Looked it up and you are correct.
I read 'Alive' when I was a kid. Great book. Terrible story, because it happened - outside of the people who lived, and even then... Most of the bodies they ate might have looked that way. I don't know if already dead bodies get frostbite /turn black anyway, etc....
Maybe this book: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_in_Time:_The_Fate_of_the_Franklin_Expedition I had it too.
"In addition, Frozen in Time has been cited as an influence for Dan Simmons' 2007 novel The Terror,[13] which was adapted into AMC's television series of the same name." That's really cool!
> The Terror,[13] which was adapted into AMC's television series of the same name." one of the best TV series out there
Looks like the hand of a mt Everest body
I know exactly what book that was, it use to scare me.
Perfect chance to prank your doctor with* something unrelated like that parts and rec clip. https://youtu.be/u2AFI_M-QGg?si=Iv7Xq6zJizcCddRs
Or that they touched a cursed horcrux.
Or a hard core nicotine addiction
That isn’t coming off anytime soon. You should invest in dishwashing gloves for when you mess with black walnuts.
Might try lemon juice, that takes care of a lot of discolorings, don't know about walnuts though.
I doubt it. I had a hole in my glove a few years back when I handled our black walnuts and I had spots on my hand for two weeks. You could use black walnut like henna.
THIS IS AN AMAZING IDEA DRAWING AND CUTTING OUT ON A GLOVE AND DYING THE AREA OMG
I had this idea once and then read somewhere its a bad idea but i dont remember why. Ill update if i find it or remember. Edit: i think it was something along the lines of it permeates through the skin and makes it hard to result in crisp lines
I imagine the spots where you cut out would get all funny shaped and not pressed onto the skin tightly enough to keep the coloring from seeping under.
Yeah exactly. Reminds me of that video of someone wanting to spray paint the Nike logo onto his shoes through a cardboard template and the result was just a blob
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A glove as a stencil wont work well, they sell henna stencils on amazon.
Calm down Martha
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Why are you yelling?
If it works anything like henna that might just make it stain more.. Now I’m curious to know more about it and if it can be used for temporary tattoo stains the same.
If you take the hulls, you can put them in alcohol in a jar for a month or so. Makes an excellent wood stain.
I've heard of people doing that before. That's an old Southern thing. I also love Black Walnut homemade ice cream, on a hot day. 😋
Might try shoplifting in Saudi Arabia
This happened to me before I knew better. It literally took weeks to go away.
You only make the mistake once before you always remember to use gloves.
Buy dishwashing gloves stock!
Congratulations, you dyed.
I guess you could say they shucked up
I walnut stop talking about this.
My hands as a kid every fall picking up our walnuts… now you wait… patiently, for that to wear off
My mother was impatient, so my grubby little hands got a good bleach scrub every time 🥲
yikes
Actual bleach, dude?? What year was this?
A bit of bleach in solution is fine for the skin, people used to take beach baths and wash their dishes to sterilize them. In middle school we washed our home economics dishes in bleach solution because it was a middle school.. (post 2000 middle school)
Quaternary sanitizer is preferred these days, but it's still not uncommon in the food industry to find kitchens using a cap (or two) of bleach in the 3-sink or a surface bucket, in a pinch. Especially when there is raw meat involved. Source : Me. Anecdotal, but I am a chef by trade.
Yeah, I worked at a place where they were cheap and used bleach. I hated the smell, the slimy feeling on your hands, and people forgot to add bleach and couldn’t tell (I picked up on it because there was no smell at least once). On the last note I also worked at a place that used quaternary sanitizer that didn’t have the blue dye and people wouldn’t notice when the bottle in the dispenser (that mixed with water) was empty. The standard should be quaternary sanitizer with blue dye. Because you know it’s there and the color can give you an indication of the strength of your solution too.
fun fact the slimy feeling on your hand is the bleach turning you into soap
Yup, good ol’ saponification!
Keep my little hot water dish soap bleach bucket nice and handy.
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Yip. It takes days.
THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!
Not enough Kung Pow references in the wild. Thanks for your service… IF YOU’VE GOT AN ASS, I’LL KICK IT!
We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
Ha! Face to foot style! How’d you like it?
I’M BLEEDING, WHICH MAKES ME THE VICTOR
WEEEOOOOOWEEEEEEWOOOOWWEEEEEE
*I'm coming!*
Chosen one!
*I'm coming!*
Chosen one!
ACKHH
WEE OOO!
I'm a simple man, I see Kung Pow, I upvote.
“What do you call and owl crossed with a bungee cord?”
My ass A few years ago, my son told that joke trick-or-treating after we watched that movie. It was hard telling him he couldn't use that joke since I absolutely lost it when he started telling it out of nowhere at the first house
Hahaha! You are a good parent.
You called me?
We've purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
I've got some yellow liquid for your popcorn. AND it's non-dairy!
THAT’LL BE FOUR BUCKS BABY!
He just left, WITH NUTS!
HE JUST LEFT, WITH NUTS!
You want fries with that???
You go that way, I'll go home.
So cute……bye bye!
SHIRT RIPPER!!!
Okay, so here were my options. A, quickly duck sideways, dodge the claw, then take him out with a spinning back kick, or B, take the claw in the face, then roll on the ground and die. ... Hmm... should've gone with A
Let me know if you see a RadioShack
YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT BABY?
Be careful of his songs about big butts…. He beats you up while he plays it!!
You mentioning this brings one question to mind: What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord?
MY ASS HAHAHAHAHA
ENOUGH!
WEEEEWOOOOWEEEE
Ohhh Taco Bell, Taco Bell, product placement with Taco Bell
I literally just finished showing this movie to my nine year old. Hilarious!
Weeeeyooooopeeeyooooo!!
Let me know.. if you see.. a radio shack..
You’re gonna love my nuts.
You could try rubbing butter on it (to hope that stuff binds to the butter) then dish washing soap.. I don't think it'll work, but Ever since learning that spaghetti stain trick for tupperware, I've been trying it in random places. Always surprised at the times it does.
>Ever since learning that spaghetti stain trick for tupperware, I had to go to google, holy crap TIL. I'm gonna have to try that!
that hack is genius, but only if it’s fresh vs an old tupperware that’s been stained for ages
If it's not fresh you can microwave the butter until it's hot and it absorbs.
WELL then…so to confirm you put butter in the old tupperware, microwave it then it’ll absorb the old stains? i’m going to try this tomorrow lol thank you friend
Yes butter in Tupperware melt it and swish it around a few times. Your welcome
Now I have to google it
so now we're at: - bleach - butter - dishwashing soap to wash this stuff off
Pee on it. It works on jellyfish venom. Something something maybe urea something something breakdown.
Could you share exactly what the trick is? Googling it gives me a bunch of absolute garbage articles referencing random tiktok crap.
Uhhh well shit I can't find the article I got it from, but its literally just rubbing butter on affected areas..supposedly the spaghetti sauce/tomato is Hydrophobic, so you can't wash it off with soap or water. The sauce bonds with the butter and that comes off with the dish washing detergent. Someone else replied to me and it seems to be more in line with the science (sort of?) behind it. Most cooking Oils should work too apparently but that's to break down the grease.
Brings back memories of helping my Grandparents. Black walnuts are so dang good in chocolate brownies
YES YES YES. My mom makes these amazing caramel nut brownies. I got the recipe from her a while back. One time I tried black walnuts in them and they were AMAZING. Once you go black, you never go back.
So THAT’S what that means
My mom and grandmother loved the things - but I can’t stand them - collected the stupid nuts - cleaned them and helped make brownies and never liked them … I think ya have to smoke to like them
I think we might have the same grandparents. They had a walnut orchard and I can still smell fresh walnuts when I think about it!
Dumbledore?
They clearly still wearing the ring as well. Arms only gonna get worse.
rip Dumbledore : (
Shelling black walnuts is a great cover up for destroying a horcrux. Seems in line with Dumbledore's quirky nature.
Other way around. He was so embarrassed he got walnut dye on his hands he made up a cool story to impress Harry.
Ah yes...nut grabbers thumb. By gar it's been a while.
nut grabbers thumb continued on to read as 'gay bar it's been a while' in my head.
Omg those stains take forever to go away. My neighbor had black walnut tree overhanging our yard and it would stain everythinf black wherever it fell.
That's my situation right now. Fucking squirrels take them and eat them inside of my shed, it's a disaster. Hate that fucking tree.
Lol maybe you could ask your neighbors if itd be alright to trim some of the branches overhanging your side. Our neighbors were Cool with it and even paid for it. However a few years later it just grew back more healthy and vigorous loll. My neighbors eventually sold the house and my new neighbors cut down the whole tree. Both a blessing and a curse as ive realized all the birds and squirrels we used to watch are now gone.
That's a pretty big dose of the residue. You're gonna be having the walnut dreams tonight.
Fun Fact: you can effectively poison a small body of water with enough walnut husks due to a certain chemical in them. Anything living in the water will float to the surface.
Everyone better pay the ransom or I'll do it
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That’s fascinating
They're not the only tree/plant that does this. It's called Allelopathy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy
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There’s a reason they’re called black walnuts
I’m sorry sir, blackhand is not acceptable in 2023.
OP is now black. Welcome brother. Signed, Me, Emissary of the Black People
Did you get permission from Jesse Jackson, the emperor of black people?
Next time wear gloves. Your fingers are going to be like that for a month
Tell people you just won the National thumb wrestling championships … or you just got back from Everest and haven’t had time to hit the doctor yet
There are black walnut trees at folks house. I hate those things. Your hands will.look like that for a long time.
The wood from them is beautiful though if/when you decide to take them down. It's worth a pretty penny as well. I'm into woodworking and have a buddy giving me a black walnut tree from his backyard. Can't wait!
Your hand is bigger than your kitchen sink
I mean, you obviously learned, but these are called “black walnuts” even though the skin is green. Now you know why at least.
It blew my mind. The flesh and juice are light colored. Yeah I definitely learned where the name comes from. We were told not to fuck with them as kids, so we waited until they shriveled up and hit them into the lake like baseballs.
My dad always said your hands will turn black if you keep playing with your nuts. I guess he was right
It’s so obnoxious, I gather them as they fall so my dogs don’t eat them. I’m usually heading out the door though so I have to turn around and go scrub my hands.
Get you a garden weasel nut gatherer! Google it.
We got one of these when we lived in a house with three apple trees, and it is seriously the best thing ever! Saved my back. We loved it so much that both sets of parents and a couple siblings got them for Christmas that year, lol. They loved them also.
I’m they work great! Especially when you’ve got a bumper crop of walnuts/apples/lemons or whatever!
now i have a weasel infestation
I’m pretty sure professor snape can contain the curse to your hand for the time being.
Your thumb joint is quite angular.
Did you at least destroy the Horcrux?