The Easiest Salad
Come summer, you can count on Granny having a simple salad of cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes in her frig or…
-
-
Until Then
Pap and Paul playing in Gainesville GA Paul’s still working through old music recordings and videos of Pap. He’s been…
-
Appalachia Draws You Back
“Even if you have lived most of your life “off”, there is something that draws you back here if you…
-
Wandering Back in Time
1940s era Nehi soda bottle found up the creek Back when I first started writing here on the Blind Pig…
-
Christmas in July
The old saying Christmas in July means something happened smack dab in the middle of the summer that rates…
-
The Zombie Apocalypse
Have you ever watched a tv show or movie about the zombie apocalypse? I don’t watch much tv so I…
-
Water in Appalachia
On Mountain Water by David Templeton One of Life’s greatest pleasures for me is wading and swimming in some sweet…
-
Making Pickles
Pickling’s More’n Cucumbers – Murphy (Mountain Cooking by John Parris) “To many a mountain woman who grew up at a…
-
Cash on the Barrelhead
Today’s guest post was written by Paul Wilson. Paul – Murphy, NC – July 2017 In one of our Youtube…
-
Dinner Time in Appalachia
“Yep, dinner at noon and supper late in the day. My Grandma W. Cooked dinner everyday on the wood-burning cook…
-
Appalachia Through My Eyes – Keeping the Bugs Away
If you’re around a camping area or attend an evening cookout after dark in Appalachia (and in other places)…
-
It’s Lay By Time
Lay by verb phrase To leave a crop to mature after hoeing it for a final time late in the…
