Goodbye to an Old Friend 1992
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. . .Kilmer We have know for some time the old oak in our backyard had to come down, but we kept putting it off and then limbs started falling on the roof. This tree has stood here all my life and longer. …
Read MoreThe Story of a Charm Quilt
In days gone by this quilt pattern was called Odd Fellow and the pattern used was called Double Bitted Axe. Ladies used to carry the pattern piece in their purse and when they visited they would ask to cut a few pieces from the lady’s stash of scraps, etc. The first time John’s step mother came…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Whew!! Ain’t this fast time sompin’ else? Hit’ll take some gittin’ use to fer me — when I wuz a young woman, I hit the floor a-runnin’ of a mornin’, but hit ain’t that way no more. I had to be told to git up this mornin’. Me deef as I am and I thought…
Read MoreAnother Windy Knoll Tale
Years ago (I don’t know about now) a cat would sit on the front porch (or any other surface with spaces between the boards) and get his tail hung in the crack. Well, that’s how the old saying came about “got my tail in a crack.” That’s exactly where I am today — I’ve got …
Read MoreOn Growing Rosemary 2013
Note: This is the very first article I posted on this blog — I thought it important enough to repost. (June 2013) At this writing we have three beautiful clusters of rosemary growing here – one in the garden , one in a flower bed next to the house and one in a pot. Some…
Read MoreAbout My Personal Goal
This subject and how I got here is not, and has not, been funny; however, I can laugh about parts of it and I hope you can too. The first of December some how I got a fractured bone just behind my little toe and the podiatrist put a heavy boot on me. Oh me!! Here I…
Read MoreWindy Knoll Problems
For weeks there has been a tree down across the pasture fence on the back side of the large pasture. For weeks different ones have promised to come “work it up” so the fence could be repaired. Finally this morning a man arrived for doing just that. Now there’s a big mud hole down by…
Read MoreRecent Needlework
Success and failure should be the title of this one. The colorful picture is one of the scarf I knitted some time back and it had to have oodles of knots tied in it and Beth did that. She enjoys it — it’s made of several strands of ribbon-like material. Now the red picture has…
Read MoreGardening and Chores
And so spring must be on the way we have daffodil blossoms and the hellebores are beginning to open. The Hellebores should have already been in full swing; however, the cold winter slowed them down — in fact, I was beginning to wonder if they made it. In case you’re not familiar with Hellebores —…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles — Lil’l Young’uns
I ain’t never see’d the beat in my life — how folks treat lil’l young’uns today. Last week we went to the tax office — we had to see what The Infernal Revenue was gonna to do us — and the north wind was bad. Y, hit would cut right through a body. I see’d…
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