On Being Southern 2005
Recently I received an e-mail about terms used only by southerners; I’ve borrowed a few and then added some of my own, Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie and a conniption — you don’t have ‘em, you pitch em. How many turnip greens, peas, beans, collard greens and fish does it take…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Law, now that hits fall I can’t help but remember how hard we used to have to work this time of year when I wuz growing up. We had to pick cotton by hand and by the end of October we tried to have it all gathered. There wuz always some bolls left on the…
Read MoreHay Baling Then and Now
Hay baling today is a far cry from how it was done many years ago. Back then, beans called something like O Two Ten were planted for hay and in the fall the beans were cut. The mower was pulled by a team of mules and then beans were raked — the rake was pulled…
Read MoreProblems of a Farmer 1989
The day started off as just another ordinary day with the usual happenings. Lunch was the common, summertime meal – consisting in part of fried okra, sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and “roas-sneers.” How did roasting ears ever get to be called “roas-sneers?” Albeit, good. The day progressed with a pop-in visit of two friends – one…
Read MoreIt’s Apple Season 2000
What a special time of year – fall. This is the season when for many years we made our annual trip to Ellijay, Georgia, to see the sights and buy apples. Over the last 50-plus years tourism and so called progress has changed Ellijay from the quaint little mountain town that it used to be…
Read MoreTradition Lives On
When I was two years old (the winter of 1930-31) my aunt knitted a little red cap for me. What happened to it I don’t know. Then after I learned to knit I knitted a red cap for most of the little two-year-old girls in this family and beyond. I need to keep one here…
Read MoreAbout Washing Quilts
As I stuffed this old quilt down in the washer, I couldn’t help but think of how it used to be to wash a quilt. I know how to try to clean them without the washer, but . . . The quilt now spinning in the washer is an oft-used quilt from our bed…
Read MoreAh, it’s Fall 2006
This could be a morning fifty or sixty years ago. The air is nippy and there’s definitely a touch of fall in the air; however, inside the smell of turnip greens simmering on the back burner wafts through the air along with the fragrance of sourdough bread baking in the oven. Perhaps by the end…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Law, with these cooler days I jist had to put a quilt in the frame. One day a few ladies come over and hope me some. I can’t believe some young whipper snapper heer’d what we wuz a’doing and he come over with some of stuff and said he wanted to record our conversation. He…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report
Okay — I have to ask that you bear with me — I have a spanking new iPhone and about all I know is how to turn it on. Duh!!!!!!!! As we went in the AT&T store I told John those people would ask, “You want to buy what?” “You look as though you need…
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