“I’ve accomplished a right smart this morning.”
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Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
“I’ve accomplished a right smart this morning.”
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Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
Just before Pap died, I videoed the girls doing a song made famous by Merle Haggard- The Way I Am written by Sonny…
The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore The New Year’s Shoot Collected from Mr. A. Sidney Beam, of…
Our beautiful Appalachian Mountains are a wonderland at any time of the year but I guess we have to wait…
Over the weekend we had the first frost of the year. Although colder weather was forecasted, the frost wasn’t and…
A few weeks ago I attended a fund raiser over at the community center. Towards the end of the event,…
“A fallow garden still has promise. An abandoned garden makes us wistful for the days when it was full of…
I’ve heart that one all my life and that’s a right smart time!
Tipper,
I called Donna Lynn at our Christian Radio Station and requested something by Chitter and Chatter. She usually plays “Cabin by the Side of the Road”, by Ray and Pap too, if she don’t have too many requests. Chitter and Chatter are my Favorites! …Ken
You have a wonderful sense of humor. My Dad has a similar expression, (I suppose from the Ozarks): “He’s a brick short of a full load!”
My Grandpa was born in SW Missouri.
I did a double take! There for a minute I thought I had missed a day. My calendar had Mar 16th twice this year. I think I sent you a picture.
“Right smart” has another an entirely different meaning in my Appalachian vocabulary also. It was and is often said of me “You’ll have to overlook him. He ain’t right smart you know!”