"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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> On 7/3/2010 4:29 PM, gloria.p wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Picked a pickup truck load of wild grapes at our deer lease back in
>>> the sixties. Just backed the truck up under one of the Bois d'Arc
>>> trees the vines were growing on and Dad and I put plastic in the truck
>>> bed and then pulled grape clusters until our hands hurt. Drove the 150
>>> miles home and then unloaded them.
>>
>>
>> I don't think I've told my wild grapes misadventure here.
>>
>> I had picked them in the wooded areas of North Stonington, CT with a
>> friend for a few years (She was a championship gleaner for anything
>> free.)
>>
>> One day after the school bus had left I hopped in my two week old (new)
>> car and drove through the woods, only to see all the vines where we had
>> picked COVERED with thick layers of poison ivy vines and leaves.
>>
>> I kept driving and turned down a road where I'd never been before.
>>
>> The road passed a beautiful dairy farm and just beyond I saw what looked
>> like freshly turned rich, black earth with thick, luxurious grape vines
>> full of fruit at the far end of the field.
>>
>> I parked, picked up my basket, and headed across the field. Two steps
>> in, I sank up to my knees in what was almost-liquid cow manure. I can
>> still vividly remember the sensation and the odor. I headed back to the
>> car where I had no stock of towels, paper towels, or even more than a
>> couple of sheets of Kleenex (it was a new car and we hadn't begun to
>> fill it with "emergency supplies" yet. I drove home with the one sheet
>> of newspaper I did find under my feet and the windows wide open. It took
>> me the rest of the day to clean myself and the car.
>>
>> I've never picked wild fruit since.
>>
>> gloria p
>
> I've heard of someone being in "deep sh**" before but never knew anyone
> who actually had been. ROTFLMAO

so now when someone says gloria knows her sh*t, they aren't lying (smile).
-ginny