How Cold Is It At Your House?
Two years ago on January 14th-I was complaining about the 16 degree temps. This morning when I woke up it was 5…
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Black Walnut Blond Brownies & A New Nut Cracker
Over the last few days, my hands have been full of Black Walnuts. During the snowy days, I’ve been sitting by the…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 27
Granny Gazzie holding Tina and Tipper (cousins-we were born around the same time) Time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-it’s…
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Snow Cream
My big snow turned out to be 8 inches. I’ve heard other areas of Cherokee County got as much as…
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Snow Folklore From Southern Appalachia
It’s Sunday night-and the weather reporters are in a tizz about the impending winter storm and it’s effect on the…
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1918 Flu In Southern Appalachia
The Blind Pig family has been lucky this winter-none of us have been sick much-I feel like I should say…
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Every Day Of The World
When I sit down to write yesterday’s post I was thinking about old sayings that have the word world in…
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How Small Is The World?
Is the world getting smaller? Sometimes I think it is. When Guitar Man came home for Thanksgiving-he had tons of…
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Hunting The Perfect Christmas Tree
When The Deer Hunter and I were first married we used a real Christmas Tree each year. We usually bought…
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An Ode To October
An Ode To October by Jim Casada (copyright 2010) Not long ago, in one of her daily blogs Tipper mentioned…
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Craftmanship And Cultivation Of Beauty – Lingering Legacies Of Early Mountaineers
Craftsmanship and Cultivation of Beauty – Lingering Legacies of Early Mountaineers by Don Casada July, 2010 Susan and Don Casada…
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Spiders
Everyone’s afraid of something, when I was growing up it was spiders for me. I couldn’t stand them. Almost every time…
