Ramblin’s

WAR EAGLE!!!! Yep I’m 85 years old and something about this ‘puter is out of whack, but I just have to say I’m still an Auburn fan. That has to be one of the best games of this fall. Now I did pull fer Georgia a few weeks ago when Auburn won – one of…

This jist vexes me to death.  I don’t see nair bit of sense in changing the time every few months.  When I’s growing up we didn’t do no sich thing — time wuz time — period!  I can’t remember when this thing called Daylight Saving Time started — it might have been during World War…

Law, now that hits fall I can’t help but remember how hard we used to have to work this time of year when I wuz growing up.  We had to pick cotton by hand and by the end of October we tried to have it all gathered.  There wuz always some bolls left on the…

You ain’t never seen sich a mess in all yore life!!  Them road graders come through here and they don’t seem to know nothing about working a road.  The right way — according to my daddy who worked for the road commissioner in the 1930’s — is to have the middle higher than the sides. …

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…

Ain’t this weather sompin’ else?  I’ve see’d another sich summer as this right here on the mountain and if I rec-colleck right the year was 1936.  Now I’ll have to go back a ways before I can git this story told. In 1936 times wuz hard on Sand Mountain and two fellers from here went…

Thank goodness Billie asked me to write this.  I shore have been a-wantin’ to give these folks some advice. You see, we’ve got a new young doctor here on the mountain and him and his bride come by The Windy Knoll the other day when I see’d she’s in a family way.  Law me, these…