Country Life – Then and Now

  Over the week end we attended a 90th birthday celebration and this got me thinking about how my birthdays have been celebrated over the years.  At this particular party we celebrated in the beautifully decorated Fellowship Hall at our church — food was plentiful and delicious.  Of course, we got to see lots of friends…

Now that we are having rain again, we again have a river where County Road 104 and Alabama Hwy. 227 meet; and it’s just like fording the creek to get from here to there or there to here.   As I’ve told you before, the state claims it’s the responsibility of the county and the county claims…

Lordy me, I guess you’uns knowed Billie has a bunged up foot.  Well, she has to wear the awfullest boot you ever see’d and she’s about wore one of her legs out dragging that thang around.  Now she can take hit off, but can’t git hit on and pore ole John has to git in…

Well, here it is December 31 and I’m the proud (?) owner of a new laptop with Windows 8 .  I’ve heard how hard Windows 8 is to learn and here I am about to take on yet another learning. How old does one have to be to quit learning?  We’ll see how this turns out…

Icicles hanging from the tin roof on this house were a very common sight in the 1930’s and ‘40’s; and another winter sight I don’t see much anymore is where the ground is frozen and it’s “spewed” up.  I use to marvel at how that frozen ground was frozen (“spewed up”) and made what looked…

Well, yestiddy was the longest, dreariest day I ever seen and we didn’t have nair bit a-company.  My daddy would-a called hit a raw day and raw it was — at 3:00 o’clock hit was 38 degrees and drizzlin’ rain. We set on this sun porch (without sun) and I worked on a jigsaw puzzle…

Before I talk about surnators let me tell you one of the neatest things we got for Christmas was some fresh eggs.  The eggs were laid by Rhode Island Red Hens and they are beautiful.  I used to know a needy lady in Georgia who would blow the inside of the egg out.  You bought…

We have two male cats who have been neutered and they are precious.  They’re litter mates and get along with well with each and also with Sister, the dog.  In the beginning their names were Tom and Jerry — quite original don’t you think?  As they got older, Tom insisted that he sleep on the…