Appalachia Through My Eyes – Wood Smoke
Since we first started talking about firewood-its barely been cold enough to build a fire. But that all changed during…
Since we first started talking about firewood-its barely been cold enough to build a fire. But that all changed during…
Yesterday, I was reminded of one of my favorite folklore sayings about flowers. At work we were discussing how warm…
If you’ve spent much time around wood stoves or fireplaces you’ve heard the crackle, pop, and hiss sounds the wood…
My recent post on Ruling Days inspired Ethelene Dyer Jones to research the issue of weather folklore a little deeper…
Last Sunday, when me and Chatter came home from doing some pickin’ and grinnin’ at Paul’s this guy was waiting…
Seems this time of the year I see spider webs everywhere I look-especially around the eaves of the house and…
Know how to get teenage girls to help peel a bucket of apples? Tell them: if they keep the peel…
Thistles are pretty, unless they stick you then not so much. In this book I learned thistles can be used to protect…
The Summer Daddy Found the Spring (A True Story Remembered) written by Ethelene Dyer Jones It was a hot dry…
The lovely Southern Moon has been shining down on me this week. The moon is synonymous with superstition and folklore….
Yesterday Chitter saved a big brown grasshopper from a spider’s web on the back porch. When she was telling me…
I call it a Granddaddy-do you call it a Daddy Long Legs or something else? When the girls were babies I didn’t want them to be…