Aunt Bill Rambles

Well, I’ve had a good thing happen to me this week.  Some woman called and wanted to talk about quilts — lordy, I can talk about quilts as long as anybody’ll set and listen.  This woman must have had lots of time because we talked and talked.  I shore do like to talk about quilts and  tell stories…

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Aunt Bill Rambles

Years ago we had a family what lived down the road and they wuz tenant farmers — moved every year or two.  They had a house full of young’uns —  Y, they’d have one in the spring and hit’d be fall before they’d have another ‘un.  They now live over in the forks of the creek and I heer’d…

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Aunt Bill Rambles

Last week my granddaughter wanted me to come eat supper with her and she lives in town.  Well, she come and got me — she lives upstairs in just a little one room place with lots of other folks living around her.  I saw her take something out of a box and put it in…

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Egg Shells…June 3, 2013

Save your egg shells. My mother used to save her egg shells to go around the tomato plants, but I doubt she knew why.  I read the other day it’s to help with blossom end rot.  She grew ferns in porch boxes (made by my daddy) on the front porch, too, and always saved tea…

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