Country Life – Then and Now
It’s Apple Season 2000
What a special time of year – fall. This is the season when for many years we made our annual trip to Ellijay, Georgia, to see the sights and buy apples. Over the last 50-plus years tourism and so called progress has changed Ellijay from the quaint little mountain town that it used to be…
Read MoreTradition Lives On
When I was two years old (the winter of 1930-31) my aunt knitted a little red cap for me. What happened to it I don’t know. Then after I learned to knit I knitted a red cap for most of the little two-year-old girls in this family and beyond. I need to keep one here…
Read MoreAbout Washing Quilts
As I stuffed this old quilt down in the washer, I couldn’t help but think of how it used to be to wash a quilt. I know how to try to clean them without the washer, but . . . The quilt now spinning in the washer is an oft-used quilt from our bed…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Law, with these cooler days I jist had to put a quilt in the frame. One day a few ladies come over and hope me some. I can’t believe some young whipper snapper heer’d what we wuz a’doing and he come over with some of stuff and said he wanted to record our conversation. He…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report
Okay — I have to ask that you bear with me — I have a spanking new iPhone and about all I know is how to turn it on. Duh!!!!!!!! As we went in the AT&T store I told John those people would ask, “You want to buy what?” “You look as though you need…
Read MoreBeware of Poison Ivy — Cure: Jewelweed
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 in most people who touch it. It is…
Read MoreHome Remedies 1990
In earlier days people here on Sand Mountain seldom went to the doctor and almost never to the hospital. Home remedies were used for every ailment under the sun, but my folks thought a purgative was the cure for it all. There was a little pink pill they gave to me – one winter night…
Read MoreThe Story of Two Old Quilts
The year was 1947. John and I eloped in 1945 and I trailed around with him while he was in the U. S. Air Force. Did you know it was called Army Air Corps before U. S. Air Force? In 1947 he was now home and we were trying to begin our lives together in…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Gardening Report
The vegetable garden here at the Windy Knoll is in various stages. The pea rows are almost through producing, but they have done a fantastic job. Our freezers are so full I doubt you could get a thimble in either of them. John picked and I shelled. We have also harvested dry ones to have…
Read MoreBeen Googled, Anyone? 2005
For months we had been scheduled to do the Southern Quilting: How It Used to Be program in Cullman and finally last week that day came. It was a beautiful day – not too hot – and a bit overcast, which made it easier for two senior citizens. The day was made complete when our…
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