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Breakfast From The Yard
A pre-dawn shower has refreshed this old farm and makes it look new again. Sister (my dog) and I are poking around in the yard to try to detect any new happenings over night. Raindrops hanging on blades of grass and leaves look like diamonds glistening in the sunlight. John wishes the rain would “set…
Read MoreKitchen Chores
How many years we’ve been making the Friendship Cake is beyond me (at least 25 , but the recipe came to me from a sister-in-law in Oxford, AL. We try to keep these cakes in the freezer (the recipe makes three cakes baked in Bundt pans and it’s all done the same day). Having the frozen cakes makes…
Read MoreOnions Make Us Cry
Making us cry is not for the reason you might think. Last August John put out winter onions in the garden — he got carried away and put out too many. Of course, family members and others enjoyed pulling them up and eating the tiny little things in cold weather and they were pretty growing. …
Read MoreEgg Shells…June 3, 2013
Save your egg shells. My mother used to save her egg shells to go around the tomato plants, but I doubt she knew why. I read the other day it’s to help with blossom end rot. She grew ferns in porch boxes (made by my daddy) on the front porch, too, and always saved tea…
Read MoreOn Growing Rosemary
At this writing we have three beautiful clusters of rosemary growing here – one in the garden , one in a flower bed next to the house and one in a pot. Some years ago I saw an ad in the Georgia Market Bulletin and the lady was selling deer-repellent rosemary— but no shipping. In…
Read MoreAh, April My Favorite Month 2009
Wildflowers have always been a big part of my life, but the year was 1967 when I was more intimately introduced to them. I can remember as a child the woods in front of our house was full of wild azaleas (what we called Honeysuckle back then) and I would gather them by the wheelbarrow…
Read MoreA Shade Garden Walk Feb. 2005
With a gentle rain pitter-pattering on the tin roof, it’s an excellent time to reminisce about last week’s walk in the shade garden. It was a warmer-than-usual day when the dogs and I meandered across the road to view the now-abandoned shade garden and bemoan the fact that I’m no longer able to work there.…
Read MoreQuilt Mending Sparks Memories Feb. 2011
The old quilt is not worth mending, but so many memories are tied up in this piece of work that I can’t part with it. It’s been used over and over and really needs washing; however, it can’t stand to be washed in this condition. This is one of the very first quilts I made…
Read MoreAiring the Quilts 1990
It’s just the right kind of day to air the quilts. It’s really a job to get them out to the clothesline, but I like to do this chore when its sunny and breezy. I think I’ve never seen a prettier sight than my quilts swinging in a gentle breeze – so many colors and…
Read MoreCrochet – Then and Now Sept. 2007
As you might suspect, I’ve been going through some “stuff” and ran across an article I did in 1984 for a magazine entitled Crafts and Trends. Here it is 23 years later and I’m still crocheting, knitting, tatting and quilting. In fact, I have a quilt in my hanging frame at this writing – a…
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