Chinaberry Wars

[Schultz]

I'm just catching up on the post in this section. I have to say Cindi; I really enjoy reading your short stories. It's neat to read your childhood experiences. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
So many of your stories bring back memories of my child hood days on our small farm. Although we didn't have, any nut tree fights. Only nut trees we had were black walnuts and those were a little too big to be chucking at each other and would have gotten you in trouble with mom from the iodine husk stains. Oh, we had acorns too, but we never did anything with those, those were in the woods.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Thank you!

I always heard that a green black walnut (sound like an idiot saying that) I mean one that is just ripening, will get rid of warts. Maybe that's just one of hose old wives tales, but I heard if you peel it and rub the inside of the shell on a wart it will go away. Do you know if that is true or not?

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( peel it and rub the inside of the shell on a wart it will go away )</font>

It didn't work for me. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[TresCrows]

I kinda side with Johnny Small, the new kid, kinda small and slight, looking for friends and being picked on by a group of older larger kids--hmmmmm--sounds like a sling shot is made to order. I never went with the slingshot, my momma always told me to punch them square in the nose and then run real fast. The running part was good exersize for me and the bloody nose was a lesson in humility for them and I got to be a pretty decent cross country runner in high school. I never had a lot of friends but the ones I had and have take me for what I am--square on or not at all and I like it that way. Moms sure know best.
I guess nowadays frustrated kids that are being bullied just bring machine guns to class instead of slingshots, my oh my how times have changed and haven't.
You should compile your stories and offer them for print. J

 

[Schultz]

I haven't heard that one. Fortunately, no one in our family has ever gotten any warts to try it on.
They did stain your hands for days when you shucked them from the husk. We'd collect them, put them on the driveway and roll them under your shoe to get the husk off. Let em dry a day or so, and then break them open, and mom would make banana nut bread with them. Lot a work for some walnuts, but they were good. Maybe it was because I was a kid, and now the nostalgia, but nut bread with anything other than black walnuts just doesn't compare.

 

[PBMAX]

Hey Cindi, I've been trying to play catch up since I've been gone a while. But have to say I agree with all the others you have a nice touch with the Quill (err a---keyboard /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

My self I'm not, nor was ever accused of being a big fellow always on the average side of height and thin when I was lil'. But we only used sling shots if everybody had one.... Yep we actually had wars with them. We use hickory nuts and white oak acorns(BIG SUCKERS). Have never seen a chinaberry tree or buckeye. But we had rules.
1. hits are waist down only. no privates!!! But a shot on the tale bone would set you running.....
2.Keep the distance to 50'ft or so (yeah I know what 12 yr old knows how far 50' is?We just guessed.)
3.Only pull the bands back 1" for those who could not remember we tied string on to limit the pull.Or they didn't play....
4. If you cheat and get caught you will pay big time. Remember everyone has one.
Hey we are talking about kids from Alabama here know one ever said we were bright!!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Did I ever mention we had BB gun fights? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif WE had to give that up some one always used more than one pump.... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif and wound up causing a fight. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

O' yeah what nut is it that grows in a prickly spine covered outer shell?Good eats if you can get to them...
We used to throw them at each other, NO gloves allowed.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Well, yeah, see, that's just it. The slingshot wasn't that bigga deal, it was the close range!

What Johnny didn't realize at the time, but came to understand later, is that the rules to the game were learned by experience only. He wasn't the first or the last to find out the hard way about the full fisted throwing technique. Most kids, once they realized they had been foolish, they laughed about it. Johnny was laughing too...right over the fork of his slingshot. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif