Spring Rain and Little Winters
I noticed the blackberries in my mountain holler are beginning to bloom. We’ve had rainy weather this week and I…
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Cold Temperatures Right On Time
The cold weather we’re experiencing is right on time for Dogwood Winter. Last week we had a couple of days…
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Chicken Feathers & Passing of Time
chickens today, feathers tomorrowA saying among hillfolk roughly equivalent to “here today, gone tomorrow,” or life is short. “He shook…
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Spring and Children’s Competitions
Rooster fight-A children’s competition of various kinds, esp to pull the stems of violets against one another to determine which…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 182
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Pulp Wood Cutters
When I mentioned pulp wood cutters in yesterday’s post, Ed Ammons pointed out that everyone might not know the definition…
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Stories from the Shed Build
We’ve been pecking away at building a shed we should have built 30 years ago. I’m not much help to…
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That’s How the Cow Ate the Cabbage
that’s how the cow ate the cabbageAn expression hillfolk use to indicate that the speaker is laying it on the…
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What For
I’ve used the phrase what for in place of the word why my whole life. For instance if Chitter came…
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We Plant Onion Buttons
The onion buttons we planted well over a week ago haven’t come up yet. I know they are waiting on…
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We Finally Got To Turn The Garden
As I drive to and fro this time of the year my eyes are snatched from the road by dark…
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March 4th (Forth) – 2025
Year’s ago Blind Pig reader Kenneth Roper shared the story of his mother telling him and his brothers that March…
