A Windy Knoll Update
Things here at the home place just keep moving along and the old couple struggle to try to half way keep up. About the gardening — we have the tackiest tomato plants you’ve ever seen — they have not had enough sunshine and they are spindly. I’m not sure the Better Boys are going to…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — Her First Permanent
Lordy me, last week when I went to git my hair cut, they’s a-givin’ some pore old woman a permanent. Course that made me remember when I got my very first ‘un. The shop was located on the south side of Main Street in Crossville. It was in a old building and very crude compared…
Read MoreThe Carrot Casserole
Casserole was a new word for me when I was probably 11 or 12 years old. As I told you before, I grew up right here on the Windy Knoll and we were quite secluded. There was not another house in sight. All we could see was row crops growing in the fields bordered by thick woods. …
Read MoreThe Pleasures of Country Living 1989
Adjusting to country life after 33 years of absence takes some patience and persistence, to say the least. But to sit here in my rocker on the front porch with my dogs, Sister and Jill, and listen to the quiet of this place and the many sounds of nature — while sipping a tall glass…
Read MoreThe First Harbinger of Spring 1991
It’s cozy and warm where I sit on the sun porch – unlike what it was when I was fooled yesterday by the bright sunshine. I thought I could get out and walk without my protective clothing, but was I wrong! The wind at the Windy Knoll was icy. Beth and I wanted to take…
Read MoreGardening — Just a Gamble
John’s fancy electronic rain gauge/thermometer read 15 degrees this morning. Wow!! That was 10 degrees below the predicted reading. We had lots of hydrangeas budding out and I can only imagine what they look like this morning. Many of those bloom on old wood and we’ll probably have few, if any, blooms this year. Last…
Read MoreThe New Bride Travels
Last week I told you about us eloping and I was only 16 years old. It was March 18, 1945 and on March 21 John returned to his base in Pratt, Kansas. I stayed here and graduated from Geraldine High School and by the middle of June 1 I had a job in Pelham and…
Read MoreSuperstitions About Quilts 1990
Today I helped work on a quilt that goes to a man in Saudi Arabia — he read about our efforts to help build a library with quilts and ordered one. My finger is so pricked and punctured that I had to bandage it. I don’t quilt as well with the bandage on the finger…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles –Non Edible Recipes
With Spring here hit’s about time to start thanking about spring cleanin’ and we’ve all got some that needs to be done. We used to put the quilts, mattresses and all that out in the yard to sun, but folks don’t do that no more. All that shore did smell good when you brung hit in…
Read MoreBeauty in the Shade Garden
Where to begin this article escapes me. This afternoon The One I Love Best dragged other “stuff” out of the way of the golf cart and offered me a ride. It was as though I had died and gone to heaven. Our woods are ablaze with color. The pictures I made are not top quality;…
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