Sacks and Their Many Uses 2007
Many years ago about this time the planting on the farm would be completed and ladies would now be trying to get that stubborn black lettering out of the sacks. Ladies used all kinds of methods for letter removal — soaking, scrubbing and rubbing on the rub board, but nothing caused the black lettering to…
Read MoreBaking the Butternut Pound Cake
This recipe is oversized and will not fit in a Bundt or 10″ tube pan. My pan is 15″ long and three inches wide and as you see in the picture it looks like it’s more than 40 years old (and it is). I bought it from a bakery supply store in Atlanta for $2.00. I have…
Read MoreRemembering Clotheslines 2007
Today there is not a clothesline at the Windy Knoll; however, there was a time when it was a necessity and everybody had one – much like an opinion. My mother used to complain that her clothesline was always over the wood pile making it difficult, if not impossible to reach – at least in…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Lord have mercy, this garden is a-working us to death. You ain’t never seen so much “stuff” in your life. Y, you would think me and JW wuz a-gonna raise a big family. I’s jist settin’ here a-shellin’ peas and I got to thinkin’ about young folks. They don’t know nothing about workin’ lack us…
Read MoreRandom Thoughts of The Home Place 1996
Breakfast on the sun porch! Now this is experiencing country living to the fullest. Sitting in this spot one could be entertained for a long time and even mesmerized to the point of being oblivious to what else is going — especially the many chores that need to be done. It’s kind of like being at a…
Read MoreEvent, experience and Energy 2007
The title comes as a result of a sermon at our church this past Sunday. The sermon was about Pentecost; however, the three points were event, experience and energy. This article is my personal story in which the three points were definitely a part. The setting was June 1945 and an uninformed (dumb) 16-year-old bride…
Read MoreOld Timey Remedies 2007
NOTE: The remedies written here are not medically proven – so try them at your own risk. In the days when country doctors were few and far between, folks had to do much of the doctoring themselves and some of these old remedies have been passed down through the generations. One of the most popular…
Read MoreSimple Pleasure of Country Living 1994
Perhaps we were thought to be crazy or whatever, but what difference did it make? John and I were enjoying life to the fullest. We were creeping along the most wonderful backwoodsy Georgia road where there were more wildflowers than one can imagine. With the so-called efficiency of our local highway department and their spraying…
Read MoreCousins 1996
It’s just the right kind of morning to lean back in the recliner and reflect – eight gallons of pickles are in progress, the rain came and relieved me of the watering job, the house is as clean as it’s going to be today and there’s nothing to do in the garden as most of…
Read MoreReflections of Long Ago
Our revival started last night and I could not help but be reminded of rivals seventy-five or eighty years ago when I was a youngster. As my mother would have said, “We had no conveyance,” therefore, we had to walk the 1 1/2 or 2 miles to the church. The country roads were dry and dusty…
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