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Enjoyment in Making a Crazy Quilt
Weather here at the Windy Knoll is brutal and how I wish I were working on a crazy quilt. What pleasure! I’ll have to admit I don’t enjoy the first part. First I cut foundation squares — I cut some out of leftover muslin (in my mother’s day they called it Domestic) and then when…
Read MoreBaking Cookies
For the past several days I’ve tried to bake cookies and every day something comes up that interferes. We were completely out of anything sweet in this house and John can’t stand it without sweets to nibble on. With bad weather in the forecast, cookies may come in handy as a comfort food and we’ll need…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — the boot
Lordy me, I guess you’uns knowed Billie has a bunged up foot. Well, she has to wear the awfullest boot you ever see’d and she’s about wore one of her legs out dragging that thang around. Now she can take hit off, but can’t git hit on and pore ole John has to git in…
Read MoreFlipper’s Back 2009
If you read articles written by Paul Finebaum, then you already know that Flipper is what he called Urban Meyer, coach at the University of Florida, when he said he was going to quit coaching and didn’t (or at least hasn’t yet). Having read this, I thought Flipper might be a fitting name for yours…
Read MoreKnitting: A Fun Hobby
With the cold winter days ahead what better thing to do than knit. I have a good friend who guided me through the buying of a new laptop and he said, “When you get this you’ll lay the knitting down!” Well, he doesn’t know me very well. I hate the thought of a day passing…
Read MoreThe Story of a Jade Plant
Crassula Ovata, common name – Jade Plant – is a native of South Africa. It’s a succulent with small pink or white flowers and has thick oval leaves. The description says it can grow to 24″ tall and that’s the exact height of ours now. Our plant has to be 40 years old. Of course,…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report
Well, here it is December 31 and I’m the proud (?) owner of a new laptop with Windows 8 . I’ve heard how hard Windows 8 is to learn and here I am about to take on yet another learning. How old does one have to be to quit learning? We’ll see how this turns out…
Read MoreAbout Winters Past 2009
Icicles hanging from the tin roof on this house were a very common sight in the 1930’s and ‘40’s; and another winter sight I don’t see much anymore is where the ground is frozen and it’s “spewed” up. I use to marvel at how that frozen ground was frozen (“spewed up”) and made what looked…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Well, yestiddy was the longest, dreariest day I ever seen and we didn’t have nair bit a-company. My daddy would-a called hit a raw day and raw it was — at 3:00 o’clock hit was 38 degrees and drizzlin’ rain. We set on this sun porch (without sun) and I worked on a jigsaw puzzle…
Read MoreBaking Cheese Straws
Our youngest is coming to spend a little time with us and we always try to have cheese straws when she comes. When I first tasted these goodies and got the recipe, my sister-in-law was making them — John and I both fell in love with the straws. Joyce used a Cookie King cookie press,…
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