Missing Davis Man Found Safe in Lake County (Survived on Pine Nuts)

The Davis Enterprise ^ | April 23, 2013 | Lauren Keene

[Former Fetus]

I grew up in Spain, and roasted pine nuts were a treat! They would sell them with a little nail to help crack them. Some 25 years ago I brought a handful of them from a trip to Spain, somehow I made it thru customs, and planted them in the front yard of the house we had just built. Things didn’t work out like we planned and a little while later we sold the house and moved away. Years later I found out the new owner, unaware of the type of pine trees they were, had cut them and replaced with something else. I still feel bad for those little pine nut trees!

[tiki]

Mmmm, yes but you get a lot of sap on your hands when you try to harvest them.

[Former Fetus]

Yummy!

[Revolting cat!]

Lucky rich man, pine nuts are so expensive I hafta use walnuts when making pesto.

[mplsconservative]

Just beware of pine nut mouth. The ones imported from China, Russia or Korea can wreck your taste buds for days.

[riverrunner]

He drove there on a road whats so hard about making it back to the road and walking out.

This dosen't pass the smell test to me.

[rabidralph]

Have you seen his picture?

[Sherman Logan]

Figured out roughly where he crashed the car. About 10 - 12 airline miles from where he exited the “wilderness.”

To get there he’d have to cross at least a half dozen roads, and there are even some pretty good-sized subdivisions in this “wilderness.”

Drugs or mental illness may play a part.

[latina4dubya]

and planted them in the front yard of the house we had just built.

i have to try this! where did you plant them?

[Former Fetus]

I planted them in the driest part of the yard, which is not saying much in South Carolina. I was trying to "replicate" the conditions where the parent trees were growing: plenty of sun, poor soil... I watered the ground until they were about a foot tall, then left them alone. They were growing beautifully!

BTW, my parents had done the same thing in Spain when I was a teenager and I remember roasting the pine nuts 3-4 years later.