Posted by Mike (WA) on November 05, 2010 at 16:08:07 from (69.10.196.7):
In Reply to: Re: Pomegranates posted by Chuck (CA) on November 05, 2010 at 15:50:53:
When I was a kid, my grandma from Missouri used to tell about climbing up in a persimmon tree at the farm she grew up on, eating persimmons. Her dad would kid her, saying "You quit eatin' my 'simmons!", and she'd laugh and eat another. Her dad was later to die after being hit by ball lightning while picking up hay.
I went to the National FFA Convention in 1965 in Kansas City, and instead of just coming home afterwards, went to Lebanon, MO to meet the relatives. They took me out to the home place, and I asked about the persimmon tree. They pointed it out, and it was full of fruit. I told them I wanted to take some back to Grandma Elsie. The helped me find the greenest ones, that wouldn't get moldy before I got home (Washington).
Took my jar of persimmons to Grandma at the nursing home after I got back. She was pleased. Then I told her, these aren't just any old 'simmons, they're from the very tree you sat in as a kid. I'll never forget watching her cry her eyes out as she ate those 'simmons, 80 some years later.
And my eyes aren't any too dry now either, actually. . .
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