There’s no telling what she said, but Pap looks like he thinks she’s a little cracked or crazy as a bed bug or beyond the pale or then again maybe he’s asking her don’t she know she shouldn’t cast her pearls before swine or don’t she realize her chickens will come home to roost eventually?

Or maybe he’s telling her what he used to tell me: don’t be so toucheous and independent you ought to always listen to someone who’s been down that road before.

Why is it-all those things make perfect sense once your an adult-but they’re clear as mud before that?

Tipper

Appalachia Through My Eyes – A series of photographs from my life in Southern Appalachia.

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  1. I think he’s amused by her fashion sense and is saying something to tease her, like “I hope that hankie was washed before you put it on your hair!”

  2. My Grandpa Joe’s favorite phrase was, “you’ll larn,” and he was right. As I near the age he was when we spent so much time together, I increasingly realize, for all that he was widely and rightly considered “quair,” that Grandpa had a great deal of insight on the human condition.
    Some would have considered him paranoid, but for my part I just think he was fiercely independent and ready, first and foremost, to trust himself, his hands, his effort, his thoughts, and his way of doing things.
    In my view, we’d be a lot better off today if we had more folks with that outlook and fewer always expecting the government to look after them. I’ll hush before I really get wound up and work ethic, making do with what you’ve got, and concepts such as charity beginning at home.
    Jim Casada
    http://www.jimcasadaoutdoors.com

  3. Tipper,
    We always said “crazy as a Bessie bug”. ha
    I love Paps use of touchy, as toucheous…I’d say Paps a good ole feller…she’d be wise to listen and I’m sure she does…
    My Mom would say…”She was just a wee bit ‘teched’ (touched as in crazy) in the head especially if the ‘she’ she was talking about ‘shet’ the door hard for no reason! ha
    I know she knows that the chickens will come home to roost…and what goes around comes around…ha
    Haven’t heard ‘beyond the pale’ or casting your pearls before the swine uaed in that tense in a long time…
    But sometimes you have to go outside the paling (fence) just be careful and run back if trouble abounds…also I always wondered about casting your pearls before the swine (Bible) …What if one piggy listened and changed and cleaned his sty?

  4. Tipper,
    This is why we have grandparents!
    They guide the young folks, always
    pointing out the things they have
    faced in life. I like that…Ken

  5. Tipper,
    Don’t reckon she was suggestin’ that she might get a “nose diamond” or an “eyebrow ring” piercing do you?…In that case go for it Pap and don’t let’er rest…stay on her case!…ha
    I just can’t stand those things on pretty faces….
    but that is a Grandmas’ opinion! ha
    Thanks Tipper,

  6. I think we said tetchious–always got that way when getting good advice. Takes a long time sometimes to realize we should have listened!!

  7. It is amazing that when kids get to about age 13, parents (and grandparents) start going stupid. When the kids get to be about 20, if you’re lucky, parents start showing glimmerings of intelliigence, then by the time they get to about age 25, parents start looking smart.

  8. I don’t know why….but it does!
    Those two faces looks a little like stubborn meetin stubborn!!!lol
    Neither of them would back down from a wildcat!

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