Today I had a friend over. She comes most Mondays, and we like to play with the toys in my room. Most of the summer it has been too hot to go outside, but today it was only in the upper 70s. Mom took us outside. After we played in the sandbox for a while, we got curious about what mom was doing. She kept picking things up off the ground and putting them in a fold of her shirt. We went to see what she picking up. They were pecans. We went and grabbed the sand buckets and helped too. Here is a picture of the fun:

It was pretty easy to find them because the leaves from the pecan tree haven't yet been falling to hide them. Even so, she kept finding many pecans and I couldn't see them at first. We were having a race to see who could find the most. I began to feel upset because I couldn't find any. But mom helped me with a few, then I caught on to what to look for. Before long we were not racing any more and helping each other find them and pull a few from low branches. It was fun and very tasty.