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About Old Timey Recipes 2012
This subject was suggested by a friend who shared some recipes. By the way, a lady (friend?) called this past week and said I was the oldest person she knew and wanted me to tell her how to make red-eye gravy. Duh!! Because of space, I’ll mostly talk about ingredients for the old-timey recipes. One…
Read MoreTrunks 2013
The definition of “trunks according to my Webster’s (and it’s an old one) is “a box or chest for storing clothes or other material, esp. of a traveler.” I wonder what a new dictionary would give as the definition – I doubt it would mention the traveler part. Following my mother’s death, unfortunately there was…
Read MoreBartering 1989
According to my old Webster’s Dictionary, barter means to traffic or trade by direct change of one commodity for another – and this was just a way of life when I was growing up. Money was hard to come by in those days and farmers would trade a day’s work for a day’s work. This made…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — Dirt Road
You ain’t never seen sich a mess in all yore life!! Them road graders come through here and they don’t seem to know nothing about working a road. The right way — according to my daddy who worked for the road commissioner in the 1930’s — is to have the middle higher than the sides. …
Read MoreAround the Farm 1995
Ah, the trials and tribulations of a farmer – even when he’s “retired.” John Crumly has yet to experience retirement – true, he did leave the good-paying job he had to come to the farm, but retirement (?) No way! In years past John had an aunt who never acknowledged that he retired from Lockheed. …
Read MoreA Special Commodity, Ice 1990
With living today, it seems ice is taken for granted. Why, all we have to do is open the refrigerator door (or in many cases that don’t even have to be done) and out comes the ice. Not so in days gone by. Ice was special in my growing up days and we only had…
Read MoreMattresses 2001
As I quilted alone last week I had lots of time to let my mind wander and relive some old times. It was then that I decided what I’d write about in Country Living, but I’m writing only after interviewing a number of older people in the area. For the most part, people above 70…
Read MoreChinches — Bedbugs 2009
Should you be a regular reader you are aware that this subject has been covered in this article before and it’s highly possible that you’d rather read the telephone book than this column. According to the old Webster’s Dictionary, a bedbug is a wingless bloodsucking homopterous insect, sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. A call…
Read MoreAbout Cows 2009
My how times have changed – even when we talk about cows. When I grew up on this farm we owned one cow. In that day and time a cow was a necessity – we depended on the bovine for our milk and butter. We could even swap the peddler butter for whatever we needed. …
Read MoreThe Violet Hospital
For some time I’ve had African Violet leaves potted and in the birthing room. Of course, these leaves put up babies that have to be dealt with. This morning I opened the operating room and birthing room — the action began. What a mess! Our eldest had brought two patients that really did need some help…
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