Today I was wondering what a cashew tree looked like.  They're pretty nifty, but the fruit of the cashew tree is even cooler!  The nut is the brown thing on top and the yellow fruit is called a "cashew apple" and can be consumed as well!.  Is this not most excellent?

I would love to have a cashew tree, but alas, frost is a no-no for them and the weather has been quite glacial around here lately!

In fact, we normally go through less than half a cord of wood in our stove each WINTER, but this year we're down to just a few puny sticks left at all.  Here the puppies cornered a critter, probably a ground squirrel, behind the wood pile a couple of weeks ago...

...and now, there is no wood pile and we're thinking about getting more wood because there is still lots of winter left!