Survival has been the name of the game for the past several days with the bitterly cold weather.  Our wood supply has dwindled, the quantity of gas in our tanks has decreased and our electric meter has run at a high rate of speed.   However, thankfully, we are warm, safe and well fed. On one…

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Billie Crumly — For the past several days I’ve tried to bake cookies and every day something comes up that interferes.  We were completely out of anything sweet in this house and John can’t stand it without sweets to nibble on. With bad weather in the forecast, cookies may come…

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Billie Crumly — Weather here at the Windy Knoll is brutal and how I wish I were working on a crazy quilt.  What pleasure!  I’ll have to admit I don’t enjoy the first part.  First I cut foundation squares — I cut some out of leftover muslin (in my…

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Billie Crumly — If you read articles written by Paul Finebaum, then you already know that Flipper is what he called Urban Meyer, coach at the University of Florida, when he said he was going to quit coaching and didn’t (or at least hasn’t yet).  Having read this, I…

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Billie Crumly — With the cold winter days ahead what better thing to do than knit.  I have a good friend who guided me through the buying of a new laptop and he said, “When you get this you’ll lay the knitting down!”  Well, he doesn’t know me very…

NOTE; As you all know it is NOT 2014 any longer. This was Mrs. Crumly’s post last January 1st. Thank you again to everyone that still keeps this blog post daily count above 3000 and often above 4000. A BIG HUGE THANK YOU FOR THE DAILY COUNT YESTERDAY…OVER 7000 HITS IN ONE DAY. WOW!! And…

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Billie Crumly — Crassula Ovata, common name – Jade Plant – is a native of South Africa.  It’s a succulent with small pink or white flowers and has thick oval leaves.  The description says it can grow to 24? tall and that’s the exact height of ours now.  Our…

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Billie Crumly — Icicles hanging from the tin roof on this house were a very common sight in the 1930’s and ‘40’s; and another winter sight I don’t see much anymore is where the ground is frozen and it’s “spewed” up.  I use to marvel at how that frozen…

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Billie Crumly — No Comments ? Well, yestiddy was the longest, dreariest day I ever seen and we didn’t have nair bit a-company.  My daddy would-a called hit a raw day and raw it was — at 3:00 o’clock hit was 38 degrees and drizzlin’ rain. We set on…