Ramblin’s

Well, this wadn’t what I wuz gonna tell you’uns about today, but I just haf  to tell you about the company we had yestiddy.  Our friend called and said she wuz comin’ to a funeral in Geraldine and wanted to come by here atter that.  Of course, I said, “Come on.”  Then another woman hear’d…

Well, I jist haf to tell you’uns what I see’d last week in the doctor’s office.  It seems I go to the doctor’s office more and more.  Could hit be cause I’m gettin’ older? They wuz toys in there fer the chillern to play with, but they wuz wore out.  This little girl, and I…

When I got up this morning I thought how sad Marthie musta been when she wuz goin’ to visit the tomb.  I jest wonder how she felt when she see’d the stone rolled away.  Who would believe Peter was the first one to have enough nerve to enter tomb and find it empty. Praise God for the empty…

Since the month of May is Decoration Time here on the mountain, I thought I’d tell you’ens how hit used to be.  Now fer you folks what don’t know about Decoration Day — hit’s when kinfolks and friends meet at the cemetery, on a certain Sunday, where their folks is buried and decorate the graves.…

Well, somebody has told me you’uns can’t understand how I talk.  Oh my!  Today I aim to use a term you may not know either and that’s rec-o-lect.  Now some folks would spell that recollect and hit means to remember. When we had all that snow last week I started rec-o-lecting about snows of years…

Lordy me, we shore have had some bad weather around here since we last talked. We’s lucky that we didn’t have no froze water pipes, but we know folks what did.  I remember when my ma and pa lived here and got running water — ever time hit turned freezing cold their pipes froze. What I’m…