Country Life – Then and Now
Aren’t Old Friends Wonderful? 2008
There’s a sign, painted on a piece of ten and hanging on my sun porch that reads: “Good friends – like old quilts grow more valuable through the years.” John and I can attest to that especially with the happenings of the last few weeks. A few weeks ago we were going on our merry…
Read MoreAbout Sand Mountain Pottery 2001
A visitor to our recent plant sale asked me what I knew about Sand Mountain Pottery and I began remembering what I had heard and read on the subject. It seems the visitor owns a Sand Mountain Pottery churn — a valuable piece of pottery. Several years ago we attended a most interesting auction in Fort…
Read MoreA Serendipity 2001
Indeed it was a serendipity meaning (according to my Funk & Wagnall),”the faculty of happening up on fortunate discoveries when not in search of them.” This certainly was the case recently when my phone rang and a lady asked if she and her sister could drop by. This was the week that The One I…
Read MoreA Place in the Country 1995
Dear Friend in the city: Before you give up that hectic, fast-lane city life for the simple, peaceful life here in the country let me tell you how it’s treated us since we came here. Remember the beautiful stone fireplace in the den — the one that evoked images of pipe and slippers, roasting chestnuts,…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Well, I ain’t never! I’ve got one of them Visa cards and shore do like to use it. Hit’s so easy just to pull that piece of plastic out and hand it over to the clerk in the store. I didn’t have nair’un when I used to walk over the road here and meet the Rolling…
Read MoreThe Optomologist Visit
Here this old couple goes tooling down I59 on the way to Billie’s appointment — 30 miles away in Gadsden. We hate being late, so we always leave in plenty of time; and this time we were in luck finding a handicapped park. I got signed in and had to look for a seat — that waiting room…
Read MoreSacks and Their Many Uses 2007
Many years ago about this time the planting on the farm would be completed and ladies would now be trying to get that stubborn black lettering out of the sacks. Ladies used all kinds of methods for letter removal — soaking, scrubbing and rubbing on the rub board, but nothing caused the black lettering to…
Read MoreRemembering Clotheslines 2007
Today there is not a clothesline at the Windy Knoll; however, there was a time when it was a necessity and everybody had one – much like an opinion. My mother used to complain that her clothesline was always over the wood pile making it difficult, if not impossible to reach – at least in…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Lord have mercy, this garden is a-working us to death. You ain’t never seen so much “stuff” in your life. Y, you would think me and JW wuz a-gonna raise a big family. I’s jist settin’ here a-shellin’ peas and I got to thinkin’ about young folks. They don’t know nothing about workin’ lack us…
Read MoreRandom Thoughts of The Home Place 1996
Breakfast on the sun porch! Now this is experiencing country living to the fullest. Sitting in this spot one could be entertained for a long time and even mesmerized to the point of being oblivious to what else is going — especially the many chores that need to be done. It’s kind of like being at a…
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