We went to appointment for dentist. Yes, he said my tooth is abcessed. There are two choices: root canal and extraction. The appointment for the root canal is three weeks away. So, the antibiotic might hold it for that long so I do not need more antibiotic.
Since we had to be there at 10 am, we were out of the dentist by 10:35. I made a visit to one grocery store. We each had two chicken fingers at DQ, and we were on our way out of town.
Tommy mentioned going to COLONY, one thing I wanted to do in September. Usually, we are trying to get back to Birmingham before rush hour, so today was the perfect day.
We drove through a wooded area and saw some very nice homes. There was a senior center off to the side of the road, nothing else. Then, we came to a very nice park and ball field.
While at the park, I saw persimmons hanging from a tree. I had to get out and get the two I saw. Since I had to exert great effort to pull it from the tree, I thought it would be astringent. Nope, I tested a bit. Oh YES, then it hit me. I grabbed a banana to stop the astringest action on my mouth. Usually, I just drink buttermilk. Now, I know two things that work--buttermilk and banana.
I knew better! I was just so eager and hopeful. Have you ever had the opportunity to taste a persimmon that causes an astringent reaction, making your mouth dry and "draw?"
Today, was another beautiful, cloudless day in mid 60s. The blue was not so clear as other days, but the sun was brilliant.
That's it--abcessed tooth, Colony, and persimmons.
Oh my! I'm glad you made it to the dentist and I hope you can get back there before any more big issues or pain. I've only had a persimmon once or twice some years ago. I don't recall any reactions of any kind just that persimmon is okay, just not my favourite.
ReplyDeleteThis was not a persimmon in a grocery store, but one still on the tree and the kind that gets mushy and disgusting before it is ripe. I love them and rarely find them.
DeleteNow you got me going on the persimmons, lol. I bought two today at the grocery store as they were only 50 cents each, about half price. They are not ripened yet. I hope they don't go from hard to mush. I know these are not the kind you were talking about but power of suggestion got me wanting to try one after so many years.
DeleteJoyful,
DeleteThose in the grocery store are so hard they turn me off. I have been told that hard is okay with them. Mush is best for the wild ones. Hope they are delicious.
If you can find one on the ground that isn't too smushed or dirty they are often ripe. Occasionally you can get a ripe one right off of the tree, but not too often down low to the ground, in my experience. We have a big old persimmon tree in our backyard. It may have been here before the house was built in 1954. It still has some persimmons left on it today, but most are on the ground now.
ReplyDeleteI used to like them better when I was a kid. My Mom loved them, and Mom, Dad, and I would take a fall trip on our boat on the Mississippi River. There were places along the banks where the bluffs were that had groves of wild persimmon trees. My Dad was young and strong and could give the younger persimmon trees a shake and persimmons would fall, and Mom and I would hurry up and pick them up off the ground and put them into those whitish colored sherbet containers and bring them home with us. After getting a few of those mouth puckering persimmons, you get an eye for picking out the good ripe ones, and I could smell the ripe ones before biting into one.
We would spend a Fall day getting a whole lot of persimmons. Mom stored them in the old refrigerator in the basement and they lasted a long time. We would bring some up and snack on them each day until they were gone. Mom never made any preserves or pudding or anything with them. We just ate them plain.
The flavor of the ones in our back yard now are a fun reminder of some perfect Fall days when I was a girl with my Mom and Dad, on sunny cool days along the bluffs of the Mississippi River, when I was young enough to spend as much time hunting for gray lizards to catch and bring home, and arrowheads barely showing themselves under the leaves, as I did picking up persimmons.
My Dad was so gaunt and weak in his last days. It is hard to believe that he was so strong and muscular that he could, once upon a time, shake the thick trunks of persimmon trees until the persimmons rained down for us to pick up. Persimmons always bring back wonderful Fall memories for me.
susie,
ReplyDeleteThose a really precious memories. I hope you type all this out, or write in longhand.
I grew up eating persimmons and knowing how to find ones that were ripe. But, today, I desperately hoped these were ripe. One was too hard, but the other was softer.
When I was two, Mama pushed me and my one-year-old brother in a baby buggy down a rocky road in the country and we/she picked persimmons for us to eat. Mama could not believe I could remember when I was just turned two.
Later and in a different home, we had a huge persimmon tree in the chicken yard! I was a teen. Well, even if I saw a persimmon fall, I was not eating that one. Or, if I picked it and fumbled it because it was falling off the tree ripe, I did not pick it up, either.
I love persimmons. But, we ate them and never made anything with them.
It is sad to see our parents so weak when we remember them as strong. Of course, now I am getting older and weaker.
Thanks for that story. Where along the Mississippi did you live?
We lived about 45 minutes away from the Mississippi River, trailered the boat to St. Charles County, Missouri and put our small cabin cruiser in the water (into the Mississippi River) there and headed north up the Mississippi River. Back then most banks and bluffs weren't posted private. All during summer we spent every weekend on the river and camped at sandbars, sleeping in the boat.But in Fall it was just a day trip. We started real early and got back just before dark. Too cold at night for comfortable sleeping at persimmon time around here in Fall, for us anyway.
ReplyDeletesusie,
DeleteThanks. That is so interesting. I know of no one who has done anything like this. I lived in the bootheel of Missouri for two years as an adult.
must be something going around, my in laws, brother and a close friend had have abscessed teeth in the past 2 months
ReplyDeleteChef,
DeleteThis has been touchy for a year, but I did not want to get the work done and now it is so much worse than a toothache. Not like me at all. I imagine people are like me not wanting mouth open for so long around strangers!
I think a persimmon tree looks like it is decorated like a christmas tree with big beautiful red/orange ornaments.
ReplyDeleteJanet,
DeleteIt was quite beautiful. Thanks.