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Going coconuts at the postal office
A week or two ago, Spring [1] cut down perhaps two dozen coconuts from a tree
in the front yard as part of a general “get this XXXX yard cleaned up”
project. But what do you do with two dozen green coconuts [2]?
Well, we ate a few, although getting into the coconut was an interesting
project and frankly, not really worth the effort. Since they're green, that
means they still have this thick fibrous husk that needs removing before you
get to the actual nut (and a coconut isn't technically a nut, but a drupe
[3]), which needs to be cracked open to reveal the white coconutty goodness
inside.
Fresh coconut—good. Spending an hour getting to said fresh coconut—why are we
doing this again?
A bunch we gave away.
And apparently, Spring decided to mail a few to some far-off friends. She
just slapped a mailing label and stamps directly to the coconut and dropped
them into the mail box (or rather, “shoved” would be the more operative word
here). There's no reason to actually pack the things since they're so XXXXXX
difficult to open.
They arrived to their destinations just fine, although with little notes
attached from the postal service saying “One of these days, we'll find a way
to break these things … ”
[1]
http://www.springdew.com/
[2]
http://www.poliza.de/starship/sciencenew/coconuts_and_copra.htm
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe
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