Country Life – Then and Now

Whew!!   Ain’t this fast time sompin’ else?  Hit’ll take some gittin’ use to fer me — when I wuz a young woman, I hit the floor a-runnin’ of a mornin’, but hit ain’t that way no more.  I had to be told to git up this mornin’. Me deef as I am and I thought…

For weeks there has been a tree down across the pasture fence on the back side of the large pasture.  For weeks different ones have promised to come “work it up” so the fence could be repaired.  Finally this morning a man arrived for doing just that.  Now there’s a big mud hole down by…

I ain’t never see’d the beat in my life — how folks treat lil’l young’uns today.  Last week we went to the tax office — we had to see what The Infernal Revenue was gonna to do us — and the north wind was bad.  Y, hit would cut right through a body.  I see’d…

It was early morning and we were in our usual places on the sun porch, when the show began and what a spectacular show of nature we witnessed. The 15-foot-tall stump, just outside the window, was the stage.  Enter Midnight —  our beautiful black mama cat – with her long bushy tail. The cats often…

The quilt in the picture has to be one of the favorites I’ve made and there’ve been a few.  I call the quilt A Country Living Quilt because it’s setting is farm scenes and items.  Then my memory goes back to when I really got into quilting. I had worked all those years and quilting…

Last Sunday we visited a church we belonged to some 20 years ago and we got the most pleasant hand shakes, smiles and hugs.  It was a pleasure to see all those old friends, but they looked so old!  Surely John have not aged like that. The preacher brought a good message encouraging us to…

Usually our days are slow, quiet days; however, the week end gave us a change.  On Friday our youngest came and I had a myriad of electronic chores to do.  I think I wore her out.  Old folks are not as astute as her younger students and even though she teaches every day — this…

Ain’t this purty weather?  I think I’ve told you’uns about this before, but I jist have to remind you.  I used to know a woman what lived in Habersham County, Georgie — now that’s way up there in them purty north Georgie mountains — and she said they always went to see Grandma that purty…