Country Life – Then and Now

It’s a perfect morning to sit on the front porch and let the rest of the world go by.  I’ve learned to look over the many jobs that need doing and just enjoy the better things. (I wish) The hummingbirds are out in force.  As several vie for positions at the feeder, hanging at the…

According to my old Webster’s Dictionary, “Friend is one who is personally well known by oneself and for whom one has warm regard and affection.”  Just such a friend knocked at our door a day or two ago and what a surprise.  It had been a super busy morning in the kitchen and clean-up was…

It was such nice day we opted to make our annual trip to the peach orchard.  I seldom leave home and it was like Christmas for me.  We like white peaches — Georgia Bell — and to get fresh ones travel 60 or 70 miles.  Crow Mountain Orchard is our choice and even though it’s…

Many years ago – probably 100 – an elderly man whose name was Ed Cochran lived upstairs in this house.  All of us who’ve grown up here know about “Uncle Ed”, but we just go on and think nothing of it.  We’re not afraid of “Uncle Ed”, our resident ghost, he’s family. Ed Cochran lived…

The gentle breeze moves the leaves of the wild clematis covering our trellis here on the front porch where Sister and I are enjoying twilight together.  Jill must be helping John with the hay moving otherwise she would be here, too –always demanding her share of TLC.  Sister and I are both aware of the…

Well we’ens wuz out and about tother day when I see’d this sign — I thought it rung a bell, but couldn’t rec-ollect just how that was.  After I had studied about it a while, I axed John if he know’d about fiddle worms.  Well, of course, he said yow he did and we talked and talked about…

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…

Have you ever given any thought as to what UP means?  Well, I read an article about UP recently and, of course, I went on my own search.  Look up UP in the dictionary and see just how much space it takes UP. In my old Webster Dictionary it takes UP almost a whole column.…