“The inexorable turn of the earth toward summer and fall brought busy days in the fields as days got longer and hotter, moving toward getting crops “laid by.” Some felt they could almost hear the corn growing on warm spring mornings. It was the time of the year when tables groaned under the delights of the season: bounteous harvests of fresh corn and beans and tomatoes and June apples and plums and peaches. Sometimes the big dinners had not a…
The Deer Hunter, Chitter, and Chatter All of us here at the Blind Pig and The Acorn wish all the…
Foundered is a word I’ve heard my whole life. I’ve heard it most often used in a humorous or teasing…
shank of the afternoon, shank of the day, shank of the evening noun phrase late in the day.1940 Haun Hawks’…
About a week ago I was coming around the side of the house when a splash of color caught my…
A mountain spring “While tea and coffee were scarce in the pre-Revolutionary backcountry, most mountain settlers fortunately found themselves with…
We’ve been trying to get out and about in the woods in between work, gardening, and singing. On one of…
David Kaynor and Chitter at Dance Musicians Week – Photo courtesy of JCCFS As I mentioned in last week’s post,…
“When I was very small, back in the 1930’s, my daddy used to feed me what he called simply “butterbread…