Hi, I live in Charlotte, NC now I haven't seen any here either. Robin Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Hi, I remember these puff-balls as growing on the ground and they had holes in the top of them and if you were to kick them smoke (or something that looks like smoke) would be released. These were in the fungi family--related to what some call toad stools. I remember getting a stick and poking at one when I was little and it grew out of the grown. Maybe there are other things that are similar I decided to write to our resident botonist---Carl to see what he thought it could be. This is what he told me: "Any way what you are referring to is the puff ball when it has matured to fruiting stage, that is when the spores have developed. that dust you see are the spores. I don't know the scientific name with out looking it up, fungi was not one of my specialties. but I will tell you this, when in the immature stage, white and solid the puff balls are delicious. I used to slice them and fry them in butter with onions and pour over a steak-----great! You just have to pick them at the right stage of development." "He (CARL) said it was alright to mention his name etc. He wanted me to pass this on and to let all the other NJM listers know I'm (CARL) is still in circulation. I've just decided to be quiet for awhile." Thought I would pass this on to everyone. I would check with Carl before any of you start eating these things. He has more guts than I have. Maybe everyone is talking about something else. Either way they sound yucky. Have a good night everyone!!! Love, Robin Stinson Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > We are glued to the local broadcasts. They can't tell us until tomorrow > whether we should evacuate or not. It is a big worry. The levees and > everything are waterlogged from last weeks storm. So we are praying and > waiting. Sounds like you need another dose of prayer like last week. You've got it, Cuz! On the subject of oaks, the only thing that falls from them is acorns and squirrels. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I went up to this > woman and said can't find my people. We talked and here was a gal that > lived in the same double house as I did in NJ. Her brother was my friend > he > was 3 yrs older than she is. That beats what happened to me back in Union, NJ, four years ago. I'd gone back for my 40th high-school reunion, and I decided to try to find the house where my cousins had lived back in the 1940s. It took a bit of searching, since they'd moved out in 1950 or so, and I hadn't been there since. But I actually found it and took a few pictures. I was still working on the pictures when the next-door neighbors came out of their driveway in their car and stopped to look at me. Since I was sure that I looked suspicious, I explained what I was up to. The woman asked me, "Was that the Beattys that lived there?" I said that it was. It seemed that she'd grown up in that house next door and had lived there all those years, not moving out even when she got married. And when she told me her name, I remembered having played with her a half century ago. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I did find this tid bit of info on this web site concerning NJ and Elsie > the Cow. > > http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/elsie.html > > > Please give it a try. > I did, and it brought back a childhood memory. My parents took me to the Walker-Gordon dairy when I was about eight or nine, and I still remember the Rotolactor. I even learned to spell it that day! The other thing I remember was drinking my first-ever malted milk there. Thanx for the memory, Robin! Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I know it wasn't in the fall but who remembers the trees with those > seed pods like string beans hanging down. I still see some nowadays but > don't know the tree. Anybody know it? > Sounds like catalpa to me. Big heart-shaped leaves; flowers that look like pea blossoms; beans hanging down in the summer. Mimosa also has bean-shaped pods. It has fuzzy pink-and-yellow flowers like powder puffs and compound oval leaves. Hope this helps . . . Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

In a message dated 10/1/2002 8:28:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I have 300 posts this morning - > a lot of spam Three hundred? How do you get that many? I get around thirty or forty a day, and it takes me forever to deal with them, even after I erase all the junk about Viagra and insurance. Doris in Colorado (Up2Nutrix@aol.com) "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot, missionary and martyr

Hi, I remember seeing these puff-balls around this time of year. Have only seen a few. The ones I remember seing were on the small side. They are I believe in the mushroom family. Robin Stinson Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Hi, One time we were up at High Point and some people were gathering mushrooms in the woods. We said how can you tell the poisonous from the non-poisonous. Are you ready for this answer? They said you just lay them on your tongue and if they burn they are poisonous. Not about to try that one and I love mushrooms. Just buy mine at the store. If Carl says puffballs are edible I would believe him. Never see them down here in the south. Pat

Norma, We are glued to the local broadcasts. They can't tell us until tomorrow whether we should evacuate or not. It is a big worry. The levees and everything are waterlogged from last weeks storm. So we are praying and waiting. We may be on the east side this time, which will mean alot of water and wind (tornadoes). It looks like a category 3, so far. My mom in NJ said they could use some of that rain, also. I don't think you would want this much at once. Pat

Lee, Have oak trees all over my property and haven't seen any puff balls. Not from oak trees. I seem to remember seeing them, though, when I lived in Union and we had sycamores. Are you still safe from Lili? Dot ooo---This Email Scanned for Virus---ooo by ooo--- Norton Anti-Virus---ooo ----- Original Message ----- From: <greenflash60@pocketmail.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] POISION PUFF BALLS > HI ALL, > WE USED TO CALLTHEM POISION PUFF BALLS. I THINK THEY COME FROM THE OAK TREE. SOME ARE SOLID AND SPECKLED. > PUSSY WILLOWS..I KNOW SOMEONE THAT STUCK ABOUT 6 OF THEM UP HER NOSE..HAD TO GO TO THE DOCS WHEN SHE COULDN'T BREATHE..... SHE WENT TO EHER MOM WHO WAS TALKING ON THE PHONE AND SAID SHE COULDN[ GET ANYMORE IN..........WE DON'T KNOW WHO THAT PERSON IS.... > > > ------------------------------ > Sent from my PocketMail Handheld > http://www.pocketmail.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Hi, Thanks for the name! Tommy Edwards, I never would have remembered that in a million years! Kittie in MD ----- Original Message ----- From: <ELLEN542@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:53 AM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: NJ-MEMORIES-D Digest V02 #269 > > "I'm > > gonna sit right down and write myself a letter". TOMMY EDWARDS > > ______________________________

Hi, I thought I would look around Yahoo for MAMMY's and didnot find anything. I did find this tid bit of info on this web site concerning NJ and Elsie the Cow. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/elsie.html Please give it a try. Robin Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Hello, I do not know who started this but I thought I would jump in. I was Born at Salem Hospital in Salem, NJ. I grew up in the 1st. few years of my life off of Hook Rd. on a street called Mellan Ave. or sometimes it was called "Beaver Dam area" in Pennsville, NJ. Then we moved a little way's up the road on Nicholas Dr. (off of Churchtown Rd. in Pennsville, NJ). My family however goes back at least 200 years or more in and around the Salem County area. A few lived in other surrounding counties. I started my Public Schooling by going to Deepwater School. At the time Mary Sanderlin was Principal. Later on I found out she was related to my grandfather's side of the family. She is the one who wrote a book I believe on Lower Penns Neck. Then I went to a Christian School in the Assembly of God Church then another Church School in or around Glassboro, NJ. After that I finished up at Pennsville High School. I graduated in 1980. I went to Lab School from 1980- 1981 in Cherry Hill, NJ. In late 1981 I moved down to Charlotte, NC with my grandmother. My mom and my distant cousins still live in the Salem County area. The different family names in my family tree are: Leuallen/Lewallen, Westcott, Harvey, Croft, Waddington, McPherson, Wilson, Mitchell, Wallen, Townsend, Keen. Sorry If I have bored anyone Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Hi everyone, Was it called Mammy's Kitchen? Where was it located. I think I remember my grandparents mentioning it. Love, Robin Stinson Sign up for Internet Service under $10 dollars a month, at http://isp.BlueLight.com

Puffballs? Castor Bean? Sounds like Castor Bean Tree to me. Regards, Grace

Hi Lee, Do you think anyone on here would know the name of those mystical sea beans from S.America. They look like smooth rocks to me. I am curious. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <greenflash60@pocketmail.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] POISION PUFF BALLS > HI ALL, > WE USED TO CALLTHEM POISION PUFF BALLS. I THINK THEY COME FROM THE OAK TREE. SOME ARE SOLID AND SPECKLED. > PUSSY WILLOWS..I KNOW SOMEONE THAT STUCK ABOUT 6 OF THEM UP HER NOSE..HAD TO GO TO THE DOCS WHEN SHE COULDN'T BREATHE..... SHE WENT TO EHER MOM WHO WAS TALKING ON THE PHONE AND SAID SHE COULDN[ GET ANYMORE IN..........WE DON'T KNOW WHO THAT PERSON IS.... > > > ------------------------------ > Sent from my PocketMail Handheld > http://www.pocketmail.com > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I am getting a lot of individual posts from this list - I know I am on Digest - and I realize some of the posts are answering my post to the list but some of it doesn't make sense - one was from Robin - she said Did I send you Span - what did I do wrong - now this is something I didn't write about - just wondering if rootsweb took me off Digest mode and if the moderator of this list would put me back on Digest -Marie G

Doris and Pat, I thought they were mushrooms. Mister here said no, they're a fungus, step on them a big cloud of brown dust. Must be the farmer in him. Hope you don't get any of Lillie Pat but we could use the rain here. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tacy413408@aol.com> To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:03 PM Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: Puffballs > Doris, > > I figured you would answer and you might have answered that one before. > Puffballs must be the fungus. I guess I thought they fell off the trees. > > Pat > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Doris, I figured you would answer and you might have answered that one before. Puffballs must be the fungus. I guess I thought they fell off the trees. Pat