Yesterday Pap and Granny celebrated 50 years of marriage. In true Granny fashion-there was a crocheted cake that totally rocked. There was also Granny’s famous Holy Smoke Cake, lots of laughter, and tons of love.
Tipper
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What a lovely photo! The cake is a work of art, and the marriage is a strong example of the work of love. Congratulations to all!
I know this is a late post. Any way, better late than never. I wish you all nothing but the best. I pray you continue with a healthy, blessed life. Godspeed.
Tamela-thank you for the comments! Granny is planning to make us all a bouquet with the flowers-great minds think alike : ) I haven’t shared the holy smoke cake recipe but I will soon!
Tipper
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C. Ron-LOL thats a good question! Granny found the pattern in one of her books. Once she crocheted the outside she stuffed the inside-sorta like a pillow in the shape of a cake.
Have a good day : )
Tipper
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Lola
Thank you for the comment! I’ll post the recipe for the holy smoke cake as soon as I can : )
Tipper
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Celebrating and Preserving the
Culture of Appalachia
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Congratulations to Granny and Pap. Beautiful cake.
Congratulations, 50 years is such a blessing to see.. and pray you have many more to come..
Congratulations to the lovely couple and thanks to them for allowing us all to share their wonderful family through their daughter Tipper and the Blind Pig & Acorn. I hope they have many more wonderful years together and with their wonderful descendants.
Congratulations! You are so blessed to have these many years together — am wishing you many more.
p.s. Pap, did you sing her a love song?
Could you give the recipe for holy smoke cake? Our 55 th anniversary is May 5, maybe I could make it. Love your blog
Congratulations to Pap and Granny, and many blessings in the years to come!
Congratulations Granny and Pop, you are a beautiful couple. God Bless You Both.
Tipper, Please pass my personal congratulations on to Pap and Granny. I feel like I know them through Blind Pig–through Pap’s playing, through his original songs, their answering Appalachian Questions and through “Grannyisms.” Thank you for introducing us! I know they are down-to-earth people as my forebears in the mountains were! “Salt-of-the-earth,” they are, and fellow Christians on the road of life. My husband and I (although he was sick for several years prior to his death) had our 61st anniversary Dec. 23, 2010, a month before his death on Jan. 26, 2011. How I miss him still! We traveled a wonderful road together. The crocheted cake is beautiful! What excellent handiwork. And you’ll have to share the recipe for “Holy Smoke” cake!! Congratulations to a wonderful couple. Please share this poem with them. I wrote it today just for them!
Anniversary Song
(for Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilson)
When we started out so long ago
Our hopes were very high;
The way was bright and any woe
Buried–far from any faltering cry.
The path we chose was close and sweet,
Beset by changes we often met;
But we kept a strong faith to meet
Whatever came; our goals were set.
Looking back over fifty years
See now two lives, yielded, blended;
And family joys, superseding fears.
Thus may we be ’till earth-life is ended.
Come with me, my Love, my Friend,
Let’s celebrate the life we’ve made.
Let others wonder about triumphant end;
We, we rest on laurels in Love’s Garden glade!
-Ethelene Dyer Jones 04.26.2014
The average marriage in this country lasts seven years. If Granny and Pap were average, they should be starting their eighth one. However, as we all know, Granny and Pap are way above average!
Hi Tipper,Congatuations to your parents!!I have the Holy Smoke cake crust in the oven now,can’t wait for supper!God Bless.Jesn
Congrats on 50 years!!! Please tell us about the Holy Smoke Cake, sounds interesting. Hope you two have many more years together.
What a handsome couple!! And what a beautiful family they have raised. Wishing them many more years of happiness!
I love the picture of your parents with your mother’s awesome cake. Best wishes to them for the years still to come. Now I’m off to Google ‘holy smoke cake.’
Congratulations to Pap and Granny!
I remember our 50th. very well.
I wish you many more happy years togather.
Charles Fletcher
Congratulations! May you enjoy many more years together. That cake really honors the occasion! God bless!
I’ve never seen a cake like it, Tipper! It is amazing! Are they common by you, because I’ve never seen anything like it.
And congratulations! 50 years! I’m so happy for you all! Thank you for sharing, Tipper! Beautiful! :))
Oh Wow, That cake is awesome and so are your parents. Happy 50th Anniversary to them both.
Congratulations to Pap and Granny on your 50th anniversary! May God bless you both with many more happy years together.
Tipper,
I love the picture of your parents. What a great cake! I wonder when she crocheted it, if every loop-over was thought of as a day or hour in her marriage. The crochted roses and hearts are a wonderful touch as well. What a great idea! Of course it is a lot less fattening. I was glad to read she had a “Holy Smoke” cake as well!! After 50 years one should imbibe a bit and celebrate…”Holy Smoke” 50 years! Wow!
The Ring
Hold the trinket near thine eye,
And it circles earth and sky;
Place it further, and behold!
But a finger’s breadth of gold.
Thus our lives, beloved, lie
Ringed with love’s fair boundary;
Place it further, and its sphere
Measures but a falling tear.
~~~ by John B. Tabb ~~~
Congratulations Granny and Pap…and many, many more happy years together!
Thanks Tipper,
PS..Roy and I have one coming up the 30th of April…not quite 50 but close..49th…
Congratulations to Pap & Granny. That is an amazing milestone! Best wishes for many more healthy and happy years together.
Tipper,
Congradulations to Granny and Pap on
their 50th wedding Anniversary. Hope
they have many more. The Cake looks
really nice…Ken
Congratulations to Pap and Granny.
What is the holy smoke cake?
What a fantastic anniversary! Congratulations!!!
What a fine-looking couple! Congratulations – and thanks – to Pap and Granny
Great! I feel as though I know them. I send my best wishes to them, and may they have many, many more years of happiness together. Great things happen in good families.
How do you make a crocheted cake?
Happy Anniversary Granny and Pap. I wish you many, many more. May God Bless.
Congratulations! What a beautiful testimony of love and God’s grace and such a precious family and heritage. Many blessings to you.
Wow! My husband and I are right behind you in two years!
,,,and what is a Holy Smoke Cake?
Congratulations to Granny and Pap!
Love that crocheted cake! What a creative soul Granny is! Perhaps the roses and hearts could be saved to incorporate into the bouquets, dresses, or decorations for future family weddings.
Will you be sharing her Holy Smoke cake? -or have you already and I missed it?
Congratulations again – not only for Granny and Pap’s 50 years, but for a family with such wonderful family values and ties.
Congratulations to Pap and Granny ! Beautiful Cake ! May the Lord Bless them with many more years together !
Beautiful cake! What’s even more beautiful is the couple standing beside it.
Congradulations to Granny and Pap!!!
Little Blue and I are coming up on our 43rd anniversary.
We need to hear more about the “crocheted cake” and the “Holy smoke cake”
Ken
Congratulations to Pap and Granny! Fifty years of marriage is quite an accomplishment. I know, hubs and I are coming up on 53 next year.
Holy Smoke Cake? I had to Google that. It is one of my favorites. We call it “Lucky If There Is Any Left” because it is a favorite dish to take to a church supper. I have also heard it called “Lush.”
It is good when made with other puddings, lemon, pistachio, and home made butterscotch.
So happy for the happy couple and for the family. All of you are a blessing to so many.
Congrats to Granny & Pap. Hope they have many more to come.
Congratulations to Pap and Granny. Today not many marriages last 50 years.
My late wife and I had been married 52 years when she passed away.
WOW! Fifty years, that’s a long time. Congratulations to Pap and Granny.
You are right, Tip, that is a cool cake!
Congratulations to Pap and Granny! My hubby and I are getting close to 50, exciting! I hope you enjoyed both the cakes, the one in the picture is beautiful!