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Old-timey Dishwashing 1989
What a wonderful thing — the dishwasher. We have come a long way with our dish washing, or have we? As I unloaded this machine I find a fork that has to be done over — just like I had to do in days of old. I had an “Inspector #12”, but her name was “Mother”…
Read MoreAbout Quilting 1989
Note: in the late 1980’s and 1990’s a very dedicated group of ladies, in Geraldine, had quilt shows, made and sold quilts and quilted for other people in an effort to build a library — where there had never been one. An American man, who worked in Saudi Arabia, read about our quilt shows and…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report 1995
The Windy Knoll was a winter wonderland! As I lay sprawled out in my recliner, I could see the top of the white-peach tree towering above the car shed and it looked as though a giant paint brush had stroked white on every branch and every twig. Breathtakingly beautiful – a beauty we seldom see…
Read More“Winter Birds” Dekalb Master Gardner Program. Sunday at 2:00. Geraldine Methodist Church
It’s Life in the Winter Time 1989
What a wonderful day – the snow is falling. I have a quilt or two under way, we are well, and Sister and Jill are warm and content here on the sun porch with us. John is thankful that he looked ahead and put out enough hay for the cows yesterday. The wind is really…
Read MoreSand Mountain Terms – Then and Now 2001
Here again my subject came from an e-mail I received from a reader. The title was Livin’ in Alabama and it contained lots of terms and sayings that we hear here on Sand Mountain – such as: It’s not a shopping cart – it’s a buggy; onced and twiced really are words. Well, you know…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles about the dirt road
Lordy me, we shore have had some bad weather around here since we last talked. We’s lucky that we didn’t have no froze water pipes, but we know folks what did. I remember when my ma and pa lived here and got running water — ever time hit turned freezing cold their pipes froze. What I’m…
Read MoreAbout Birthdays – 2005
Over the week end we attended a 90th birthday celebration and this got me thinking about how my birthdays have been celebrated over the years. At this particular party we celebrated in the beautifully decorated Fellowship Hall at our church — food was plentiful and delicious. Of course, we got to see lots of friends…
Read MoreOld Timey Remedies and Superstitions 2005
NOTE: The remedies and superstitions written here are not medically proven – so try them at your own risk. In the days when country doctors were few and far between, folks had to do much of the doctoring themselves and some of these old remedies have been passed down through the generations. One most popular…
Read MoreWe Ford the Creek 2006
Now that we are having rain again, we again have a river where County Road 104 and Alabama Hwy. 227 meet; and it’s just like fording the creek to get from here to there or there to here. As I’ve told you before, the state claims it’s the responsibility of the county and the county claims…
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