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[RedTop]

@silkyk 

I had a 365 Bedtime Stories book as well, and it was a favorite of mine.  

About 10 years ago I tried to find the version of the book I owned, online.  While I did not find the one I owned in the 60's, I did purchase one that has the same stories I remembered.  Versions of these books date back into the 1930's.  

[Judaline]

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@ROMARY wrote:

Hey, years and years ago, wasn't there a popular Tumbleweed song?.......

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That's a classic-Drifting Along with the Tumblin' Tumbleweed. Sons of the Pioneers. I don't know if Roy was singing with them or not.

[PJinIA]

When I was in Arizona a few years ago I was at a place called the Haunted Hamburger in Jerome and in the gift shop they sold jewelry made from compressed & dyed tumbleweeds.  I thought it was such an ingenius idea that I bought a couple bracelets.

[4kitties]

@PJinIA 

Oh I like those bracelets!  

Who would think that a tumbleweed could be so attractive???

[silkyk]

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@RedTop wrote:

@silkyk 

I had a 365 Bedtime Stories book as well, and it was a favorite of mine.  

About 10 years ago I tried to find the version of the book I owned, online.  While I did not find the one I owned in the 60's, I did purchase one that has the same stories I remembered.  Versions of these books date back into the 1930's.  

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Check over on Amazon. I saw all the versions (all covers) there including the one I loved. How I wished I lived on "What a jolly street". Good luck finding your old book friend.

[SharkE]

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@PJinIA wrote:

When I was in Arizona a few years ago I was at a place called the Haunted Hamburger in Jerome and in the gift shop they sold jewelry made from compressed & dyed tumbleweeds.  I thought it was such an ingenius idea that I bought a couple bracelets.

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what they won't think of !

[JoyFilled Warrior]

@SharkE 

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

Cares of the past are behind
Nowhere to go, but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

I know when night has gone
That a new world's born at dawn
I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart is a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

I'm a roaming cowboy riding all day long
Tumbleweeds around me sing their lonely song
Nights underneath the prairie moon

I ride along and sing this tune

See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

Cares of the past are behind
Nowhere to go, but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

I know when night has gone
That a new world's born at dawn
I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart is a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds"

"Marty Robbins Sings "Tumbling Tumbleweeds""

[JoyFilled Warrior]

"Seeds"  from a "Tumbleweed?"

What *IS* a Tumbleweed??

[SharkE]

Collection of weeds and grass that has dried out from lack of rain and with the constant wind they knot up, dry up

brittle balls of dead vegetation that just keep tumbling.

My fence row is now clear of them for the time being.

Had some hired help that mowed over them too much work to pick them up so he just mulched them to death.

LOL

[JoyFilled Warrior]

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@SharkE wrote:

Collection of weeds and grass that has dried out from lack of rain and with the constant wind they knot up, dry up

brittle balls of dead vegetation that just keep tumbling.

My fence row is now clear of them for the time being.

Had some hired help that mowed over them too much work to pick them up so he just mulched them to death.

LOL

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@SharkE 

Thank you.  Was hard to imagine for someone unfamiliar.  I only saw pics.  I had no idea they had "seeds" in them. 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!