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Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
10:18 AM Post #6788608
| You have started my day off gloriously with this charming article. I love to wander through all of your adventures with you and today was an especially delightful journey.
As a side note: A person should never be without peanut butter! Bread is the staff of life but peanut butter is an absolute necessity also!
Thank you again for your lovely fern story. I particularly enjoyed the journey toward heaven part. Keep up the good work.
Signed: Your devoted fan |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
11:39 AM Post #6788929
| Hi Elena,
You just made me smile right back at you. I am glad you enjoyed the story. I was just telling someone that I couldn't write a thing about a plant unless I had a story to go with it, and I have lots of fern stories. I figured that since ferns were edible, no matter where I was in the mountains I'd never go hungry. But I always carried around my peanut butter and crackers, and fed the birds about as much of them as I ate myself. That was another factor...feeding the birds.
Thanks for writing, I always love hearing from you.
Sharon |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
12:11 PM Post #6789054
| :>) I have a lot of peanut butter stories to tell too, SOMEDAY! A comedian (he was also a Baptist preacher) in the fifties, Dave Gardner, said that, "Man can not live by bread alone. He must have peanut butter." |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
12:15 PM Post #6789070
| My mother always said that peanut butter was the glue that held me together since I never would eat very much, if any, meat.
It still does hold me together, I guess. |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
12:39 PM Post #6789154
| Now I see one major thing we have in common! I have always said that I have peanut butter flowing through my veins. Bet you thought I would say chocolate! |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
12:51 PM Post #6789188
| Chocolate and peanut butter are the necessities of life, so much better together, don't you think? |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
01:56 PM Post #6789370
| YEP! Nuff said! |
planolinda
Plano, TX
July 07, 2009
07:08 PM Post #6790459
| oh what would i have done with out peanut butter!? raising 4 kids i always got the huge size-it was bigger than the quaker oats box! sams carried it-- now i pick up a little jar and think how things changed since the kids moved out--
i love your wonderful stories and the memories they stir up --when you write your book of plant stories i want to buy a signed copy! |
Elena
Nashville, TN
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
07:16 PM Post #6790480
| Yeah, I want one too. |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
07:34 PM Post #6790542
| Linda,
One time when Joe Devlin (who is in some of my stories) threw gum in my hair, Mom filled that whole section of hair with peanut butter. When she got it all out, she decided that it seemed to control the crinkles in that little section, so before I knew what she was doing, she rubbed the p'nut butter all over the long ends of my hair...every curl was saturated with it.
My head weighed a ton, and I was mad as fire, not because I was a p'nut butter head, but because she wasted it on my hair and there was none left for me to eat. Sigh. I think it took a while to wash that stuff outta my hair, and it really didn't help a bit, because the same old curls just came right back.
And I will remember about the book, ladies.
Thank you. |
planolinda
Plano, TX
July 07, 2009
10:48 PM Post #6791532
| oh so now we have hair stories to share--i did share this somewhere so hope i am not repeating myself to you
my sister and i always got home perms -we'd sit at the table and my mom would use some smelly stuff and tell us to please sit still!! anyhow--my sister and i were playing in a field and she started taking burrs (stickers) and wrapping up her hair--:"look! i'm giving myself a perm"---well THOSE perm rods never came out!! my mom ended up getting her hair cut completely off at the barber!! and as an aside--our perms never did turn out --we always ended up with a head of fluff! |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 07, 2009
10:59 PM Post #6791575
| Now whenever I see your name, I am going to think "Fluffy"!!
And feel free to think that about mine too, but I never had a perm.
Oh, your poor sister! |
planolinda
Plano, TX
July 08, 2009
11:07 AM Post #6793036
| you never had a perm!! lucky you!
fluffy is a good way to think of me i guess--wish i were a little less fluffy! and i don't mean my hair! thinking about my middle age changing body! |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 08, 2009
11:30 AM Post #6793150
| Hair, Linda, not body.
But fluffy does sound cute!
I have to change what I said. One time in the 80's I had a hairdresser who was trying to tame my hair, and she suggested putting a perm in to get the natural curl to loosen. So I let her. Oh good grief, I was a mess. In some places it did loosen the curl, but in others it only tightened it. I had to get a short haircut and just let it grow.
No more perms. |
planolinda
Plano, TX
July 08, 2009
11:40 AM Post #6793191
| one more hair story--my son was about 3 or 4 and had a white scarf around his forehead hanging down from the side-- how cute i thought--my little ninja! later the scarf slipped down and it turned out he had cut the front of his hair off! he wasn't into being a ninja but was hoping to avoid being found out-- the thought of him using scissors that close to his face was upsetting but his reason was pretty funny--he said he had tree sap on it! Kids!! |
Sharran
Calvert City, KY
(Zone 6b)
July 08, 2009
11:47 AM Post #6793221
| Ha! Yes, pretty funny.
That tree sap will get you every time! |
