Country Life – Then and Now

There’s a first time for everything and this is the first time I’ve forgotten to get something ready to post.  I’ve told you this before, but of all the things I’ve lost I miss my mind the most of all. Company is on the way and I’ve told them I can no longer cook, but…

My best friend recently had a birthday, but without a party.  As I remember it, she is ten years old and her name is Sister.  Sister is a mixed breed – a clean dog with short hair.  She has many characteristics of a German Shepherd; however, her head is too small.  Somebody put her mother…

nSometimes people ask me how I come up with subjects for these Country Living articles and I’m not really sure.  Things I hear and see just have a way of evoking old memories and just how this subject came up, I’m not sure. As John and I sat on the sun porch early one morning…

This house has had peanut brittle in it more weeks, during the winter, than it hasn’t.  This year is different.  John is the peanut brittle maker  and has been making it for years – I’ve never made it. I didn’t even go in the kitchen when he was doing this chore.  All during the Christmas…

Wow!  I’ve missed being with you folks, but thanks goes to Beth and Russ for their help.  I told Russ he might have to take over the blog as we got more hits yesterday than usual. What beauty we’ve seen — this area was really a winter wonderland.  What is the saying – “If winter…

Well today finds another “guest” writer. I am Russ Austin and as the crow flies I live about a half a mile from Mrs. Billie Crumly. Mrs. Crumly is again without an internet connection this morning. But thank God we all still have our power unlike some folks in the south. Sand Mountain people are …

Mother and I hope this finds you warm and safe as both of us endure the snow and ice of the day.  We are in different locations, she is at the Windy Knoll in Alabama, and I am in Conyers, GA but the storm systems which are engulfing us are very similar. Mother told me…

Try as I might I couldn’t come up with a subject to talk to you’uns about this morning and John said to tell you what we wuz a-doin’.  A good friend and his mother is having a bunch of their kinfolks in fer dinner today and we’re a-makin’ vegetable soup fer ’em.  Now you know dinner here…