Country Life – Then and Now
Event, experience and Energy 2007
The title comes as a result of a sermon at our church this past Sunday. The sermon was about Pentecost; however, the three points were event, experience and energy. This article is my personal story in which the three points were definitely a part. The setting was June 1945 and an uninformed (dumb) 16-year-old bride…
Read MoreOld Timey Remedies 2007
NOTE: The remedies written here are not medically proven – so try them at your own risk. In the days when country doctors were few and far between, folks had to do much of the doctoring themselves and some of these old remedies have been passed down through the generations. One of the most popular…
Read MoreSimple Pleasure of Country Living 1994
Perhaps we were thought to be crazy or whatever, but what difference did it make? John and I were enjoying life to the fullest. We were creeping along the most wonderful backwoodsy Georgia road where there were more wildflowers than one can imagine. With the so-called efficiency of our local highway department and their spraying…
Read MoreCousins 1996
It’s just the right kind of morning to lean back in the recliner and reflect – eight gallons of pickles are in progress, the rain came and relieved me of the watering job, the house is as clean as it’s going to be today and there’s nothing to do in the garden as most of…
Read MoreReflections of Long Ago
Our revival started last night and I could not help but be reminded of rivals seventy-five or eighty years ago when I was a youngster. As my mother would have said, “We had no conveyance,” therefore, we had to walk the 1 1/2 or 2 miles to the church. The country roads were dry and dusty…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Law me, I’ve had the awfulest day you ever see’d. I been a-wantin’ to cook a apple pie lack my ma did fer 60 years and every year I fail. Today ain’t no different. When I’s growing up, we had a apple orchard and Ma could make the best pies. She called ’em plate pies. When the apples…
Read MoreReminiscing with a Friend 2000
It was during a Sunday afternoon nap when, what John calls our “doorbell” started ringing – actually it’s the barking of the dogs – telling us that company had arrived. A longtime friend was out making pop calls on this beautiful March Sunday afternoon and stopped by the Windy Knoll. First our conversation covered the…
Read MoreNothing’s Like it Used to Be 2012
In the last year our extended family has acquired a new husband and a new baby. Hanging Christmas stockings has been a tradition in this family for a number of years and I’ve been trying to knit new stockings for these new family members. Would you believe I cannot find good yarn? In 2001 and…
Read MoreA Dulcimer for Barter 2000
Some twenty-five years ago, when I was big into making quilts, a friend brought some quilts blocks to me and asked what she had to do to put the blocks together. Jane and Chet belonged to an Air Stream Trailer Club and ladies in the club had each made a block for the quilt. I…
Read MoreThe Panty Hose Debacle 2011
This article violates my own rule of not talking about my ailments and health. Please forgive me. Bear in mind that I’m 83 years old; and the right side of my body is in pretty good shape as far as movement is concerned, but the left side is something else. To begin with I have…
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