March 28, 2025
Hello Friends,
Contrary to your first thoughts after reading the title of this e-mail, this post is not about ourselves or our crew members. It’s about real nuts, like almonds, etc.
It all started one day when I got hungry for nuts. Although I very much like peanuts, I was hungry for real nuts. Went to the store and bought a can of Planters mixed nuts. As a side note, before continuing with the story, you ought to Google “Planter’s Nuts” and click on images. There is a truly scary and vast variety of different flavors of nuts and peanuts. For example, “Hot Chipotle Peanuts,” “Honey Roasted Peanuts” (which are really good), “Peppercorn & Pistachio Duo,” and several others.
I wanted just regular mixed nuts. Got my can of nuts home, began eating them, but belying the lower percentage-of-peanuts label on the can, turned out the thing was . . . I would estimate . . . 90% peanuts, not real nuts!. Maybe their claim is true by weight, but not by practicality.
Happened to go to Braum’s a few days later to buy some milk. They have the best because they have their own herd of cows. I noticed they also carried a different brand of mixed nuts. A little more expensive than Planter’s, but that’s what I wanted. Got it home, opened it up, and it was exactly what I wanted. All real nuts. Transformed me into a happy camper nutwise.
A few days later, an order arrived from Costco. Opened it up and it contained several bags of nuts that Donna had ordered in consideration for her dear husband (i.e., me). There were individual bags of almonds, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, and filberts! Wow! We decided to mix them all together to make our own bags of mixed nuts. Got out our large mixing bowl and dumped in the bag of almonds. Welp, that filled the bowl nearly half way. The bowl was clearly not big enough for our mix. We do own an army-sized metal salad bowl, so we switched to that. Dumped all the bags in and mixed them together. Then started filling Ziploc sandwich bags with them. Eighteen bags it made! So now each of us keep a nut bag on our couch tables to munch as we get a mind to. As long as a person doesn’t over do it, nuts are great for you. Zero sugar, low salt, good nutrition, tasty, and a definitely superior snacking item!
How to relate all of this to promoting our shop? One of the most common and frequently frustrating issues with longarm quilting is problems with your tension. It will drive you nuts. If you ever have experience with this, you know where to come. Helping you as a quilter with these sorts of problems is exactly why we are here. Many of our classes address this very issue. TNT . . . Tension, Needles, and Thread . . . because all three of these things have to be right before you can achieve consistently good stitching. Come by the shop and/or take one of our many classes, and we’ll get you set on the right track.
Chip
Fox Country Quilts, LLC
