removing beans from their pods is usually called "shelling" so you could say you are "gone to shell!"Although I usually think of 'shucking' in reference to corn, I guess it still applies to beans. It certainly beats 'awww, hull'.
Sleepily, somewhat sightlessly, semi-sentiently sorta-sorting seeds. I think I've been there, done that.
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I'm TERRIFIED of bean weevils. I've never heard of anyone around here having those, and I can only pray that I've never come across them because our winters, being so bitterly cold, kill them off.
So far, I haven't had bean weevils - and obviously don't want them ever. But I have received them twice in new acquisitions: once from a trade, and once from a fairly well known seed company. Because I quarantine all new beans or corns in freezer bags, the bugs never escaped to infect anything else. The bean ("Canon City") was a total loss, and had to be reacquired from SSE itself. The cowpea (which in addition to the bugs was also mislabeled as a rice bean) was salvageable after freezing to kill the bugs... but I later dropped it in favor of better varieties.The bean weevils that I saw walking across the fireplace hearth last year may have carpooled to our place with a friend, who brought me saved seed from her garden. From now on gifts of dried legume seed will be quarantined briefly, rather than immediately placing them alongside my collected seeds. This year I plan to freeze my beans for several days before I store them, but I also want to make sure that I don't introduce moisture that could damage them. So far my plan is to freeze them for a week or so in glass jars, and then let them come back to room temperature before opening the jars. My freezer held lots of beans in glass jars over the winter, and I did not notice any condensation on them when I brought them out to room temperature.
I feel very lucky. I am able to allow beans sit at room temperature all year long and no bean weevils hatch out of my seed. So I have determinded that there are probably no bean weevils in the county. I do definitely know what these creatures look like and the perfectly round holes they make in the seed when they eat their way out of the seed. When I lived in the county west of here in the mid 1970's and early 1980's I experienced weevils in beans I grew there. My first experience came about by accident just a little before Christmas 1975 when I was going to fill a seed request. I opened a container of beans and saw a few holes in a couple of beans. I poured out the beans in the container and at the bottom I saw the live weevils moving around. I instantly knew what to do. I said to myself freezing kills bugs. So all the containers went into the freezer which was running at about -25 below zero F. -31 C for three days. I had later read that a temperature of 0 F -17 C for about three days is a successfull treatment for bean weels to keep them from hatching out of your bean seed. So each year after that all the beans went into the freezer at around the third week of November.
