This house has had peanut brittle in it more weeks, during the winter, than it hasn’t.  This year is different.  John is the peanut brittle maker  and has been making it for years – I’ve never made it. I didn’t even go in the kitchen when he was doing this chore.  All during the Christmas…

Wow!  I’ve missed being with you folks, but thanks goes to Beth and Russ for their help.  I told Russ he might have to take over the blog as we got more hits yesterday than usual. What beauty we’ve seen — this area was really a winter wonderland.  What is the saying – “If winter…

Well today finds another “guest” writer. I am Russ Austin and as the crow flies I live about a half a mile from Mrs. Billie Crumly. Mrs. Crumly is again without an internet connection this morning. But thank God we all still have our power unlike some folks in the south. Sand Mountain people are …

Mother and I hope this finds you warm and safe as both of us endure the snow and ice of the day.  We are in different locations, she is at the Windy Knoll in Alabama, and I am in Conyers, GA but the storm systems which are engulfing us are very similar. Mother told me…

Try as I might I couldn’t come up with a subject to talk to you’uns about this morning and John said to tell you what we wuz a-doin’.  A good friend and his mother is having a bunch of their kinfolks in fer dinner today and we’re a-makin’ vegetable soup fer ’em.  Now you know dinner here…

We dragged out a puzzle John got for Christmas 2012 and put it out on the table that stays on the sun porch just for puzzles.  The puzzle was of tools hanging on the wall and was only 275 pieces.  The box stated it had large pieces and was easy handled.  Duh!  I thought we…

Oh my, how I wish I could make a beautiful presentation of food as some of these young ladies do.  I see the prettiest pictures on the internet and wonder if they ever experience failure. Failure is my subject for the day.  As I’ve told you before, I made sourdough bread for years and years and…