Country Life – Then and Now

Lordy me,  last week when I went to git my hair cut, they’s a-givin’ some pore old woman a permanent.  Course that made me remember when I got my very first ‘un. The shop was located on the south side of Main Street in Crossville.  It was in a old building and very crude compared…

Adjusting to country life after 33 years of absence takes some patience and persistence, to say the least.  But to sit here in my rocker on the front porch with my dogs, Sister and Jill, and listen to the quiet of this place and the many sounds of nature — while sipping a tall glass…

Last week I told you about us eloping and I was only 16 years old.  It was March 18, 1945 and on March 21 John returned to his base in Pratt, Kansas.  I stayed here and graduated from Geraldine High School and by the middle of June 1 I had a job in Pelham and…

With Spring here hit’s about time to start thanking about spring cleanin’ and we’ve all got some that needs to be done. We used to put the quilts, mattresses and all that out in the yard to sun, but folks don’t do that no more.  All that shore did smell good when you brung hit in…

How John and I got off on this subject only God knows,  however,  recently we covered all the old ailments not seen anymore. It was common to see children with sores on their legs.  In the summertime I used to have them from my knee to my ankle and just on the shin.  Caused by…

The year was 1945 and I was a senior at Geraldine High School.  I started in first grade and graduated there as well.  I drove a neighbor to Crossville to the dentist and was waiting in the old A-Model I was driving.  My cousin, a friend and this young (very young)man in uniform came walking up…

  Where are our Martins?  We’ve lived here at the home place for 25 years and have enjoyed several pairs of Martins every year; however, this year they have not arrived. Ordinarily their scout arrives around the middle of February and the adults come about March 1, but this year nothing.  John had the gourds…

This was the designated day –round up time.  Generally we have various plans in place — beginning with Plan A and then progressing on down the alphabet. Plan A was changed to Plan B, when it was determined — or at least we thought so — the price would be better at a cattle barn…

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. . .Kilmer We have know for some time the old oak in our backyard had to come down, but we kept putting it off and then limbs started falling on the roof.  This tree has stood here all my life and longer. …