Liked that one too. Kittie since I'm your Mother's age I wonder what you remember your Mother said that is kinda passe now? I am going to ask mine, sure there's something there. Norma ----- Original Message ----- From: Kittie Ennis Lane <kittdanl@frederickmd.com> To: franor <franor@atmc.net>; <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: SEED PODS > HI, > > I heard the story that my GGM always said "blow the light out". She just > never got used to electricity! > > Kittie in MD > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "franor" <franor@atmc.net> > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] Re: SEED PODS > > > > Isn't it funny that names mean different things to people? A "Skipper" is > a > > flat rock we kids used to try to skip across the water. A good skipper > goes > > a long way others just plop. > > Another funny, my grandmother never said mop the floor she always "filed > > it" and sink was a zink. lol. > > Norma > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Up2Nutrix@aol.com> > > To: <NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:53 PM > > Subject: [NJ-Memories] Re: SEED PODS > > > > > > > In a message dated 10/3/2002 7:25:12 AM Mountain Standard Time, > > > NJ-MEMORIES-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > > > > > > > Anybody on that seabean? > > > > > > > > > > Never heard of it; must be a Florida special. And when you say "skipper" > > > around me, I think of an insect that's about halfway between a butterfly > > and > > > a moth. They're not very common, although I'd occasionally see them in > NJ, > > > and a couple of years ago I saw several here in Colorado Springs. > > > > > > Lots of plants out there like Jack-in-the-Pulpit; they're members of the > > arum > > > family. They all have that plug ("spadix") sticking up in a sheath > called > > a > > > "spathe." Two common members of that family are calla lily and skunk > > cabbage. > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > 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 > > > > > > > ______________________________ > >