Technology and Old Folks 2008
It was a day to forget, the mower was in the shop and this place looked like nobody lived here. At 85 years old John can’t last long with the push mower. Last week’s article was ready to send and I tried, but would you believe Times-Journal received a blank page? After endless struggling, finally,…
Read MoreSourdough bread
For 20 + years I baked sourdough over and over. I baked sourdough bread for our church’s communion for 15 of those years and now I can’t make the bread. Duh!!! We hosted eight quilt shows here at the farm on behalf of the Geraldine Public Library and one year I sold 27 loaves of…
Read MoreA Story of My Veteran
The idea for this article came from a reader who has an interest in WWII. The story is about my veteran, The One I Love Best and we’ve been together 68 years. Wedded Bliss? No way. We could have gotten a divorce several times, but neither would agree to take the children, so we just…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
This week I ast Billie if’n I could tell you folks about her wall hanging. When she belonged to East Cobb Quilt Guild in Marietta, Georgie she wuz give three pieces of material and wuz allowed to use a extra piece or two and had to make a wall hanging. Well she decided to use…
Read MoreFall Color at The Windy Knoll 2005
The ground here in the yard is brown with fallen Water Oak leaves. As you turn in our driveway, on the left the Possum Haw is loaded with red berries. The leaves are still intact, but when they drop the Possum Haw will be showy. Looking to the right, the multi-colored bark of the stately…
Read MoreElderly White Knuckles 2010
Atlanta is home to a party we used to frequent, held on the first Friday Night of each month, but we had not been in months and months. So we chose to attend this past Friday Night and, of course, it’s an eating meeting. So we opted to take turnip greens, Mexican cornbread, green onions…
Read MoreThe Woes of Home Owner 2012
What’s next? Now that this renovated house is 27 years old everything is wearing out and so is our pocketbook!! As I stated in this article before, I can’t remember when all our tools, appliances, etc. all were in working order at the same time. Forever and eternally, it seems there is something that needs…
Read MoreFilet Crochet
According to what I read when I Googled — filet crochet is a gridlike work using only two stitches — double crochet and chain stitch. I disagree — the crocheted piece you see in the picture has chain, double crochet, treble crochet, single crochet and slip stitch. Before one begins it’s important to know how…
Read MoreCandied Sweet Potatoes
All my life I’ve called this dish Candied Yams, but now in my later years I’m told that sweet potatoes and yams are not the same. Duh! I have tried over and over to make these like my mother did. Hers were so good and looked just as pretty. I know she didn’t use Karo…
Read MoreRenew the Contract Time 1999
The year was 1988 when we had guests visit here from Zeist, Holland. Coolidge Isbell owned a little paper in Geraldine at the time called Tri City Times and he asked me to write an article for the paper about the foreign visitors. It was as a result of this article that he invited me…
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