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I asked Aunt Bett why we couldn't pick that beautiful white flower that bloomed in the evening and on into the night. She sat me down right then and there and told me the story of near death and destruction brought about by the misuse of the Devil's Plant. And she made me promise to never touch Devil's Plant no matter what, 'cause the devil got ahold of anybody who did.
Now if I were telling this story for some of my mountain friends and family to hear, I would tell it like this:
Aunt Bett set me down in a cheer rite aside her and told me to git comforble cause she was gonna tell me sumpin' I needed to know. She said: "Young Mason done gone ahind the barn and picked him some leaves to dry so's he could have him a smoke or two. Seems young Mason din't know the differnce 'tween rabbit 'baccy and devil's weed cause he done picked the wrong one. He dried them leaves of devil's weed and right out ahind the barn he went to have his smoke. His folks done found him layin' thar when they went to milk ol' Bessie next mornin', and young Mason warn't movin'. They run to git Ma, and I come with her when she went to see what uz wrong with young Mason. I seen him a layin' thar in his own bed, white as a sheet and as near to death as I ever seen. My ma, she kept rubbin' his haid an' his face an' th back uv his naick, with a cloth she dipped in camphor water. It smelt right strong but not strong enough to wake up young Mason. I was scairt and thought he was for shore daid. This went on for a day or two and my ma she never left young Mason's side. That camphor was so strong I thought it would wake up all the daid for miles around, but young Mason never moved. I asked my ma if he uz breathin', and my ma said he wuz, but for me to stand back. Young Mason's Ma and Pa wuz thar, sittin' in a corner not sayin' a word, but I could see his ma's lips amovin' and I knowed she wuz aprayin'. I thought them prayers warn't goin' a work, but long 'bout the next nite, young Mason sat straight up in bed and yelled out: 'Lawdy, lawdy, I done seen granma and the devil hisself, and I seen that red lite and I knowed I'd a been strait to hades, laudy, laudy, Ma, come an' hep me, come an' hep me!' And then he laid hisself back down and went asleep."
If I live to be a hundred, I will never forget that story.
Aunt Bett had a lot to say about the plant and she told me that it came in a lot of different forms, none of which she would even touch. It was hard for me to imagine how a plant so beautiful would put such a fear into Aunt Bett. "Wouldn't the asphidity bag stop the devil, Aunt Bett? How 'bout two asphidity bags? If I look at it do you think the devil will know and come lookin' for me?" I guess she realized she had opened up a can of worms by telling me about young Mason, but she answered my questions by telling me a little more of the history of Datura. There are several forms of Datura, all of them toxic and definitely not something for folks to consume. According to her, a long time ago, predating recorded history, priests and shaman alike used it to bring on visions of the future. In some cultures it was an agent of assassination. The Native Americans used it for the rites of passage, and other cultures used it in similar rituals. Some ancient cultures smoked the leaves to relieve asthma. Aunt Bett assured me that it had been controlled by those cultures, but she never felt safe using it for anything. She told me that her grandmother had boiled the seeds and the steam was inhaled by those who suffered from asthma, but Aunt Bett still did not use it at all. She believed it caused people to go out of their minds, and she knew death would soon follow.
Rarely was I ever afraid of a plant, but she made me promise I would never touch the devil's weed. As long as Aunt Bett was around and for many years after, I didn't. Datura stramonium, also known as Jimsonweed was the plant that grew wild in the mountains. It has a smaller flower and a more tooth edged leaf than the Datura inoxia, which is what I want to tell you about.
Last year a friend sent me some seeds and among the many packages she sent was one small package marked TOXIC. I really didn't recognize the seeds, but I went ahead and planted them in a very large container along with a few other things. Quickly the seeds popped up, and within a couple of weeks I had a pot full of plants I could mostly identify, but the ones that were growing by leaps and bounds were unknown to me. I realized that those large plants were from the seeds that had been marked TOXIC. A few weeks turned into a month, and August rolled around. One night my 3 year old grandson was visiting and we were chasing fireflies just at dusk. "Nana, Nana, look at that flower!"
I looked where Ethan pointed, and there was the white flower straight from my childhood. Well, it wasn't excactly the same but it was close enough. A beauty of a flower.....nearly iridescent and glowing in the darkness. Aunt Bett's voice popped straight into my mind: "That's Jimson weed, chile, it's the devil's weed, don't you never ever touch it, you hear me? That devil'll git ahold on you and he ain't goin never let you go!" And out of my mouth came these words: "Ethan, that is a bad plant and we must never touch it. Let's sit down and I'll tell you a story about your Great great great Aunt Bett." And so I did, right there on the steps of my back deck while we watched it bloom.
Ethan never bothered the plant, but he loved to check the pot even during the winter months to see if it had bloomed again. And I don't think he will ever forget the story either. The plant that my friend had given me turned out to be Datura inoxia, more commonly known as the moonflower. Mine was a low growing bush, and through August it bloomed more and more. I did some research and found that there are chemicals that the plant produces that are used medicinally. They are however added to other chemicals to produce products that are used in some medical treatments. They appear in drops used to dilate the eyes, in patches placed behind the ear for vertigo, and in some instances to treat Parkinson's. The active alkaloids are atropine and scopolamine.
In some areas, forms of Datura are considered invasive. It is a lovely plant. If you do enjoy having it in your garden, I would suggest that you handle it with care, control its growth by potting it, and be sure it is never touched by children or pets.
I hope you had an Aunt Bett to warn you of potential dangers in your garden. Mine scared the life out of me, and even now I feel guilty because I have Datura blooming in my garden. Aunt Bett, I promise I will not touch it!
All photos are my own. Thank you, my dear Jude, for your gift of seeds and for all the beauty you gave me.
About Sharon Brown
I am a retired high school art and humanities teacher. I grew up in the Appalachian mountains of southeast KY and now I live with my two rescued cats, Jazz and Daisy, in far western KY. I love the history of my state and its plants, and you will see that love reflected in my writings.
Posted by Blacjac687 (from Toledo, OH) on August 31, 2008 at 10:09 PM:
I was experimenting with a faster cure for the flu and my daughter had acquired a book all about herbs and I already had a book by Jethro Kloss
"Back to Eden" and before I left to drive my semi-truck to California, I made up a gallon of Tea with all the ingredients I felt would help with congestion of the lungs, Great Mullein, Cayenne powdered red pepper, apple cider vinegar, Lobelia, and Hyssop...also Honey to sweeten it.
I had made up the tea and strained it through a nylon stocking into a gallon container and put all the "raw" or strained ingredients into bottles with lids and was about to throw the bottles out when I got a "STRONG" tingle, like goose bumps but no bumps,just the electrical stimulation, which I discerned to mean " NO DON'T THROW IT AWAY" Someone will need it,so I put it into the truck and a few hours later I was on my way..
I had driven to West Memphis Ark. some 800 miles and I stopped for fuel..then breakfast.. as I looked around the restaurant manager would get really nervous each time the phone rang....
"Not being one to mind my own business", I preyed into her problems and asked about her nervousness and the phone calls..."Margret Booth" then said "my husband has "EMPHYSEMA" and he could die from it any time.!
"Again the tingling and I said "I'm supposed to give you something for him"
and she said "from who" and I said "trust me your supposed to have this"!
I went to the truck and returned with the capped bottles from the tea and told her to put it into a 1/2 gallon of water and boil it and start giving it to "Willard Booth" her husband.
A few days later on my way back east I stopped again and Margret told me
"on the second day Willard started spitting out "large tea leaf sized"objects from his lungs....
In the ensuing months 3-4 Willard Booth put his oxygen bottle away and started "driving his self" around cuz he could breathe just fine"!
TRUE STORY! AND THE PROCESS AND FORMULA ARE ALL ON "WWW.EARTHCLINIC.COM.JUST LOOK UNDER "EMPHYSEMA"
IT WILL SAY "JACK FROM TOLEDO.OHIO,
Since I gave the formula to the public by means of earthclinic.com..I've made up "kits" for people all over the USA, NEW ZEALAND,AUSTRALIA, AND IRELAND..!
PLEASE NOTE..THE "TINGLEING I GET IS THE "HOLY SPIRIT TALKING TO ME" AND NOT THE SLIGHEST CREDIT FOR THIS FORMULA IS MINE....IT IS ALL "HIS" In Jesus Name... God bless ......jack..apparently this was the pentacle of my purpose for my life here on this plain and life time and this incarnation..I've even had "3 strokes" and high blood pressure,over weight, and still "HE" has not allowed me to go back home......?
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on August 31, 2008 at 10:14 PM:
Interesting, Jack. Thank you so much for writing, and take care on your trips.
I'll take a look at emphysema, I still have a lot to learn!
A great story, by the way.
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Subject: Love your stories
Posted by Susie2 (from Brazoria, TX) on July 29, 2008 at 8:40 AM:
I have many daturas in my yard but no younguns. I love them in the evening and morning as I just got through strolling and whiffing them. Never had them in my yard as a youngster but do remember the 40s and 50s growing up. No tv, just radio sometimes and playtime with friends til after dark in the East Texas oil fields. Your stories bring back almost forgotten memories, thank you so much.
Susie
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 29, 2008 at 10:37 AM:
Ahhh, Susie, thank you. I remember those east Texas oil fields, too, but that was not so long ago. I am so glad you like the stories, and thank you for writing me.
Sharon
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Subject: Superb story, brilliantly written!
Posted by lottiedoddy (from shrewsbury
(United Kingdom)) on July 29, 2008 at 5:21 AM:
Hope you compile a series of Aunt Betty's stories and have the book published. I would buy it, and so would a million others. I'll help illustrate it for free! Most importantly, GET WRITING! Loved story but don't think I'll see A Devil's Plant seed in my back yard here in the UK. 'Though I've found a thorn apple pop up from time to time; Datura stramonium-I think? Sonia x
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM:
Thanks, Sonia..
So nice to hear from you. And if I ever do write a book, I will be sure to let you know.
Sharon
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Subject: Datura
Posted by ARWadoo (from Srinagar
(India)) on July 29, 2008 at 3:08 AM:
Hi
I use Datura plants as a cover to protect rose cuttings from direct sun.Datura is meant to be Datura.It does nor mimic as do the humans
Agood story to botanise youngesters.
ARWadoo
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM:
Hello ARWadoo,
What a great idea! And that would certainly work well. I had not thought of it. I grow them for their beauty, but am glad you mentioned them as shade plants.
Thank you for reading the article and for writing me.
Sharon
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Subject: great story
Posted by lizrainey (from San Mateo, CA) on July 28, 2008 at 9:21 PM:
hi shar,
wonderful story, having a few dantura growing in planters that im going to move to the frount yard, i had a package of white, think i'll plant them out there to so the dogs dont get around them.
thank you for sharing that story.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM:
Hi Liz,
Thank you for reading it, and for writing to me.
Hope you enjoy your daturas.
Sharon
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Subject: A Traditional Storyteller
Posted by BrightStar (from Chesapeake, VA) on July 28, 2008 at 5:43 PM:
Wow - you are quite a storyteller, Sharran. I hope to read more of your stories, especially about plants.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 28, 2008 at 5:47 PM:
Thanks, BrightStar. So nice to hear from you.
I do have a lot of stories to tell......16 years was a long time to hang out with Aunt Bett.
Thanks for writing.
Sharon
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Subject: Great Story......but
Posted by PaulFromAL (from Piedmont, AL) on July 26, 2008 at 2:50 PM:
I'm sitting here reading it on the back porch, I got both eyes on my computer screen and as I was reading through the story one of my eyes keeps wondering over about 7 feet to my right where I got a Moon flower vine (Ipomoea alba ) growing up the beside the porch. After reading about young Mason, even though it ain't the same species, I ain't taking no chances, I'm keeping a close eye on it from now on.......:)
Enjoyed your story as always.....It just hit me that as a kid growing up we had horror movies on TV, adventure stories on TV, learning programs on TV, cartoons with exaggerated story lines and the news and the weather at 12 and 6 and 10 p.m......and you as a kid?.....You had all that and more, everything rolled up into one person, Aunt Bett.......Not all but lots of kids today have their adventures in front of a computer screen or a TV set, folks like you had real adventures with a sure nuff guide to help you through most things, your Aunt Bett....Kinda makes you sad or at least a bit sorry for kids today missing out on an Aunt Bett and all you'd see and do and learn with her.......I know times are different and all that but it's still a shame if you ask me....What? Nobody asked me!!!....Well they should have.......:)
Another wonderful story Sharon.....
Paul from Alabama
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 26, 2008 at 3:03 PM:
You have to remember that we didn't have a TV till I was about 9, and then could only get a little reception from the antenna that was about a mile up on the top of the mountain.
But we had radios at night. And we had lightning bugs and june bugs, and granddaddy longlegs......and it didn't take much imagination to turn them into monsters.
It was a good time to grow up, Paul....I got to have the best and the worst of both worlds, you know??? Think of all the things that have been invented/created/perfected since 1950, which is about the time I started following Aunt Bett around in the mountains.....
I guess I was pretty lucky.
Thank you.
Wish you well....
S.
Thank you for reading my stories.
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Subject: Great, useful article
Posted by mametcalf (from Genesee Twp, MI) on July 24, 2008 at 11:27 PM:
I had no idea that Moonflower was part of the Datura family. My mother also warned me about jimson weed, but I hadn't seen any since childhood and so did not recognize the resemblance. Thank you for pointing this out. I love Moonflowers and have never realized that they needed to be kept away from my pets. The kids know not to touch anything without asking, but the pets are not always so bright. I lost my favorite cat to an Easter lily a couple of years ago.
I love how you have written the first part of the article in mountain dialect. So many people look down on mountain folk as unintelligent, but your Aunt Bett articles have always given insight into knowledge that is passed through generations, not learned from books or universities. My son's grandmother was from West Virginia so I benefited from such knowledge firsthand.
Thank you for teaching others that wisdom comes in many forms.
Maggie
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM:
Maggie, you just touched my heart. Thank you for taking the time to write such a wonderful comment. I am glad you like the Aunt Bett articles. I was lucky to have her in my life, and very fortunate that she had such an influence.
Again thank you.
Sharon
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Subject: don't be scared of it!
Posted by criss (from Walpole, MA) on July 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM:
I grew up in Santa Fe and we always had Jimson weed growing around our house, with delicate little purple morning-glory-like blooms and lovely spiky egg-shaped seed pods. They never bothered anyone. I've pulled them up with my bare hands with no adverse effects. I think they're lovely.
Now I live in Massachusetts, and the lady I bought my house from had grown some as an experiment though it's not really suited to this climate. Surprisingly, they have reseeded themselves for the last two years! I love them, though they're a little bigger and darker-colored than the ones at home.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 5:58 PM:
Thanks for that information, Criss. I like mine too.
Thank you also for writing.
Sharon
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Posted by leaflady (from Hughesville, MO) on July 24, 2008 at 11:13 PM:
I first learned about using Jimson Weed for insect attraction and deterrent at the same time from Rodale's Organic Gardening magazine. It is a trap crop for the Hummer moths which becomes the tomato horn worm. It's strong odor supposedly repels other insects tho I don't remember which ones anymore. I grow it for its beauty and fragrance. It embarassed Jack to no end that other farmers knew his wife raised such a horrible week. Every year we carefully removed each seed pod from the plants and I eventually agreed to try to keep the population down to just 5 or 6 plants. Most of mine are the ones with white flowers with purple centers tho I originally had only the solid white ones. I always raise at least three in the bird yard along the south fence for shade for the birds. Most summers they get nearly 5' tall and about that wide. Most years we wind up with many more than we want, like this year. We chop them down before seed pods form if possible. The seeds are toxic. I learned a few years ago that the stalks and branches of the plant smell like P. butter if rubbed. We tried it to see and it is true! Sometimes we jokingly call it the p. butter plant.
I'm glad the young boy lived. I'm also thankful you were taught that it is a dangerous tho lovely plant. I have never known any person to eat the seeds or any part of the plant unless they did it on purpose knowing what it would do. Animals avoid it by nature.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:20 PM:
It is so nice to hear from you and I enjoyed reading every word you wrote. I still enjoy mine, too.
Thanks you for both reading the article and for writing to me.
Sharon
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Posted by wandygirl (from Brookfield, CT) on August 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM:
Sharran, I hope we will hear more from you about Mason. I'm sure you could turn that "can of worms" into some interesting storytelling! I wrote a short research paper about solanaceous plants which includes the closely related brugmansia, one of my favorites. The alkaloids produced by this family of plants are powerful chemicals, for sure. Ethnobotany is a fascinating subject, which is why I always read your posts (and for the great storytelling as well!) Have you read One River by Wade Davis? In this book Davis re-traces the travels of Robert Schultes, considered to be the father of modern ethnobotany. What a conversation he and your Aunt Bett could have had!
Looking forward to your next post. Thank you.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on August 8, 2008 at 1:38 PM:
Thanks Wandygirl, I haven't read that book, but will be searching for it. I have heard of Robert Schultes, however. I will be looking for both of them in my searches. I realize I don't have the basic knowledge that I need to do real justice to my articles, but am slowly trying to correct that.
Thank you so much for reading and for writing to me.
Sharon
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Subject: Wow.
Posted by Seedtosser1 (from Glenview, IL) on July 24, 2008 at 4:13 PM:
If i had read this article about 6 years ago, I might have kept my jimson weed.
Mine was yellow! Grew right smack dab in the middle of my yard. I've a notion to allow weeds to grow, now and again because I think they are beautiful, LOL, that one was beautiful, however my kids were too little so once I found out it was toxic, I yanked it. Wasn't too worried about my kids, but you know had the entire neighborhood of children always running around. But the whole reason I allowed it to grow, Was because it reminded me of a morning glory, only it bloomed early evening in to morning.
hehe, your story reminded me of an otherwise forgotten wildflower. LOL, I only have one picture of it too, needed it to find out what it was.
well, back too comment on another great article.
What a nice way to to teach young Ethan of his great great Aunt Bette and recall another memory.
thanks!!
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 4:15 PM:
Thank you, Judy, for taking the time to read and comment about it.
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Posted by leaflady (from Hughesville, MO) on July 24, 2008 at 11:20 PM:
It was probably a bird dropped or windblown seed from a domestic brugmansia. Brugs have many colors of blooms. The blooms are very large and hang down as if from heaven so they are often called Angel's Trumpets. Daturas have been hybirdized too. Their blooms point upward toward heaven and are called Devil's flowers. You can go to the forums for each of these plants and find many who raise them and will probably be able to send you some seeds.
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Subject: What a message
Posted by gloriag (from Floyd, VA) on July 24, 2008 at 8:29 AM:
Your datura story is so good. Sometimes it is just best to leave something alone even though there are some good things about it. But now there are lovely commercial varieties which are surely tempting.
My neighbor pointed out a large weed which he called jimson weed. I started to pull it up and he said, "Don't do that; I have a friend who would appreciate the seeds." So I didn't. Now I have these large, ugly seedling leaves all over the area where the plant was.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM:
It's a quandary, isn't it Gloria....to have them or not.
I enjoy looking, but still don't touch. But I do love to watch them open their faces to the evening.
Thanks for writing.
Sharon
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Subject: Daturas
Posted by Pyewacketcat54 (from Fort Worth, TX) on July 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM:
Sharon,
I love your Aunt Bett stories,I'll remember this one every time I look at my flowers....
The heat here is getting to the plants and I both.
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Posted by Kathleen (from Panama, NY) on July 24, 2008 at 7:02 AM:
I've ended up with a datura because of a labeling mistake and I have been trying to figure out how to get rid of it since I realized what it is! We found jimsonweed on the farm when we first came here and what Stan and I read about it made us decide it was something we were never going to grow. It was along the lines of your Aunt Bett story, without the personal touch.
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Posted by roadrunner (from Hereford, AZ) on July 24, 2008 at 8:15 AM:
As I drove about our area. ...I saw MANY of the Sacred Datura plants...and the funny thing was...I thought about how the shape of the "clump" reminded me of a floral spray one would see on top of a coffin!! They are beautiful though....and I wished I had my camera with me as I went to work at Coronado National Memorial yesterday....they were all along the road.
When I lived in Lakeland, FL there had been a rush of teens that were using them for a "high"...terrible thing...they almost died. but that didn't seem to deter others. Jo
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 10:54 AM:
So nice to hear from each of you.
Our weather is hot too, Pye....but we are getting a bit of a cooldown after an earlier storm on Tuesday.
Poor choices teens make at times, right, Jo.....I am not sure if some of them even believe the lessons they learn from them.
And Kathleen, you really don't need them at the farm, that's for sure.
But they sure are pretty when they bloom.
Thanks for reading the article and for writing me.
Sharon
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Posted by Dutchlady1 (from Naples, FL) on July 24, 2008 at 11:06 AM:
Another great Aunt Bett story.
I really do hope you'll bundle them all in a book one day.
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM:
Thanks, DL...am thinking about it.
Nice that you read it.
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Posted by postmandug (from Bardstown, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:29 AM:
Sharon I think UK Press might be very interested in your stories!
Doug
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:31 AM:
Hi Doug,
Am corresponding with them even now. And yes, they are.
Thanks for the encouraging words.
How's B'town these days??
Are the sunflowers still blooming out on 62?
Sharon
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Posted by postmandug (from Bardstown, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM:
We've had some good rains the past week or so. Everything is growing good at the moment.
Doug
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Posted by marieortiz (from Tolleson, AZ) on July 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM:
Great story and one I will share when my kids are home next week. I will look at mine differently now and will be reminded of Aunt Bett.
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Posted by imapigeon (from Gilroy, CA) on July 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM:
Sharon, I'll be one of the first in line if your stories get published!
Janet
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Posted by postmandug (from Bardstown, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 12:41 PM:
Heck I want an AUTOGRAPHED copy!!!
Doug
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Posted by wannadanc (from Olympia, WA) on July 24, 2008 at 12:42 PM:
Back in the 1970's, I was taking a National Science Foundation class (for teachers) in northern California. We visited the sewage treatment plant in Santa Rosa - so as to learn about primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment of sewage. I was amazed and amused at what was growing in the area where the dried sludge had been spread around: Jimson weed, marijuana, and tomatoes. Uh huh. Obviously there was a bit of Jimson and MJ getting flushed down the toilets back then, and it seemed the tomato seeds were not being a bit traumatized by their trip through the human digestive system before the 1,2,3 punch of the treatment plant.
What a strange memory to be evoked by your well written enjoyable article!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM:
Marie, Janet and Doug...thanks again, and if it all comes together, free copies, promise.
Wannadanc, that is really interesting....wonder what kind of chemical changes those seeds underwent?? Glad you liked the article, even if the memories were rather strange.
Thank to all of you for commenting.
Sharon
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Posted by randbponder (from Hornick, IA) on July 24, 2008 at 4:47 PM:
Yes you have a knack for telling the stories. I've enjoyed all your Aunt Bett stories. I have a few Datura seeds but I have failed to plant them. I have a bed of wild flowers that has one Fox Glove in it. I have several toxic plants but don't let them get out of control.
I think I will remember this story for a long time.
Thanks for sharing.
Russ
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 24, 2008 at 5:02 PM:
Thank you, Russ, for sharing as well. I am glad you like the stories.
Sharon
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Posted by clerkie56 (from Iberia, MO) on July 28, 2008 at 9:42 AM:
Another great read. I have heard of people using the leaves and flowers for their highs guess they don't get how low and I do mean low they can go!
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM:
Hi again Clerkie....
You are so right.
Thanks for reading and for writing me.
Sharon
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Posted by paulineristeau (from Warren, MI) on July 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM:
Thank you so much for sharing your Aunt Bett stories.Reminds me a bit of listening to my Father and his brothers.Stories were often the way they taught us as children and oh how I miss it and him !! Please be sure to let me know if that book ever comes out as I would dearly love a copy and to share it with the nices and nephews. Please keep sharing and bringing back all the beautiful memories!!
Thank you
Pauline
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Posted by Sharran (from Calvert City, KY) on July 28, 2008 at 12:07 PM:
Thank you, Pauline.
So nice of you to take the time to write. I miss all the stories too, so the writing has been a way for me to remember as well.
Hope your day is lovely.
Sharon
