| silvervz 2005-10-30, 6:22 pm |
| Ah, Tick, I love ya! I just forwarded this off to a couple of people,
that I've either argued with or that have argued with people themselves
because they're from San Jose in "Santa Clara Valley" aka Silicon Valley.
And we remember the days when you could ride for miles and all you
would see were primarily prune tree orchards. This valley was beauiful
and a great place to grow up in when I was a kid. My neighbor had 2
horses and she was an only child and my age so we use to ride and play
there all the time. Boy, I have wonderful memories of those days. But
after HP, Intel, Apple Computer and then many other high tech companies
got started, one after the other got pulled down until today you can hardly
find even one prune tree.
Silver
GT Tick wrote:
>Rose: I thought at first Silver had been sniffin' burlap again but my
>curiosity was roused so I went searching. Now I picture her flitting
>from tree to tree like a little bee justa buzzin'. With her Ipod
>blaring The Electric Prune all the while. Now that'll move ya. <Nyuk,
>nyuk, nyuk.>
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>This from the Organicprune.com:
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>By definition, a prune is a dried plum. All prunes are plums, but not
>all plums are prunes. Prunes can be dried without fermenting while
>still containing the pits. This is not true of other varieties of
>plums. It should be noted that when we plant an orchard, we plant a
>prune orchard.
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>The first prune trees in America are reported to be planted in the Santa
>Clara Valley of California in 1856. The original prune graft came
>from D'Agan root stock from France. Today the D'Agen prune has come
>to be known as the California French Prune, and constitutes about 99% of
>the states production. Most of the production lies in the Sacramento
>Valley. Here, the rich valley soil, the climate, and the abundant
>water supply, are ideal growing conditions and result in high quality
>prunes.
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>*****Don't Cry Because It's Over...Smile Because It Happened.*****
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