Country Life – Then and Now

NOTE:  We have a great blog coming tomorrow written by Donna. I just need to make sure I have all the photos in place like she would like. Thank you again for keeping us going. A pre-dawn shower has refreshed this old farm and makes it look new again.  Sister (my dog) and I are…

NOTE: So sorry for the delay in getting new post up everyday. Donna and Beth are back full force in their jobs (as should be) and life is pulling us all in so many different directions at this time. I will do my best at getting a new post up everyday now. Some days are…

NOTE:  Today would have been Mrs. Billie Crumly’s 86th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS. CRUMLY.  While I was looking for a new post, the second one I clicked on was this one. Oh how times have changed so much since that day she wrote this post. Mrs. Crumly often wondered aloud, “who is going to take…

Saturday afternoon, in the heat of the day, I began thinking of the man I knew as Uncle Wesley. I asked Daddy where he was buried and lived and off we went to that area. Daddy said that Uncle Wesley Crumly lived in the Lusk Chapel community, just north of Geraldine. As we rode, he…

I received this in an e mail a few days ago and thought it would be fun to share.  Author unknown. What is your paraprosdokians? Well (Winston Churchill loved them)  they are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.  1. Where there’s a…

The fourth Sunday in April has just passed and what memories I have of that Sunday.  Fourth Sunday in April was always the all day singin’ at Skirum Methodist Church and it drew a crowd.   John’s uncle Merrill used to say “All day singin’, dinner on the ground –the  devil’s in the woods and whiskey’s…

As some of you may remember, I have a new teaching position in a different county. I was so excited to get this appointment, but the summer has not allowed me to celebrate as I would have liked. Hightower Trail Elementary School is located in Rockdale County, Conyers, GA. I have been in the middle…

As some of you may remember, the decorative rock fell off the front of my house in late May or early June.  Needless to say, with all the sickness and death of those months this minor issue at home was ignored.  It was not structural and we could live without a rock facade, Mark, the…

As the old saying goes, “We could lose a crop sitting here watching the birds” and we really could as one forgets about time.  There is always so much activity at the feeders and we have seven.  One large feeder we inherited from a quilting friend who died in Georgia and when the squirrel gets…

About the hatching of eggs: Eggs of a potato bug hatch in 7 days, whereas the eggs of a canary hatch in 14 days.  Eggs of a common hen hatch in 21 days, but eggs of ducks and geese take 28 days to hatch.  Mallard eggs hatch in 35 days, but the eggs of parrots…