Country Life – Then and Now

As many of you know I am a school teacher and a student.  I also love to read; my house is full of books of all kinds: animals, gardening, education, research, and fiction to name a just a few.  There is always a need for one more bookcase. My husband is thrifty, and that is…

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Billie Crumly. According to Wikipedia, Taxicodencron radicans — commonly known as poison ivy — is a poisonous North American plant that is well known for its production of urushiol, a clean liquid compound found in the sap of the plant.  Urushiol causes an itching, irration and sometimes painful rash…

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Billie Crumly — Some twenty-five years ago, when I was big into making quilts, a friend brought some quilts blocks to me and asked what she had to do to put the blocks together.  Jane and Chet belonged to an Air Stream Trailer Club and ladies in the club…

Today’s post is a post that Mrs. Crumly had ready to post, but for some reason she did not. So I would like to share it with everyone today. We are just getting in the grove again with this blog that Mrs. Crumly loved so much. So please hang in there with us for many…

Talk about good — this is heavenly to serve in the cold winter time (or any time for that matter) with dried beans or meat.  Some of our extended family enjoys it atop a hamburger, too. Allow plenty of time for this one as the relish has to simmer quite a while, but believe me…

Donna Harvey, writer. Billie Crumly had many talents and one of them was crocheting.  Over the years she developed a knack for crocheting lacelets and in her later years developed an edging all her own which made them even more beautiful and lacey.  Now you say what is a lacelet?  It is a series of…

Beth Littlejohn, Writer Today was a travel day for this dutiful daughter.  Donna had taken Daddy home with her for a change of scenery and for her to be able to spend some additional time with Brad.  Daddy had a fabulous time.  Brad took him to breakfast one morning to a little place in Cartersville…

Beth Littlejohn, Writer After spending the first several days after Mother’s funeral with Daddy, I returned home.  I am happy to be home. As I will be one of the three contributing authors to this continued blog, I need to introduce to to the cast of characters which whom I share my home here in…

Guest writer:  Beth Littlejohn My daddy, the one she loved best, will keep things going…things they loved together.  Daddy’s mother helped Daddy develop an appreciation for flowers. Mother enhanced and deepened that feeling in Daddy to love of flowers. He was always ready, well, sometimes he would grumble, to stop to dig a new wild…