Fighting Fire and other Fire Sayings
If you play in the fire you’ll pee the bed tonight: Years ago Pap was burning off a small…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – He Ricked up the Wood
Mighty aggravating to rick up the wood you just split when someone keeps sticking their cell phone in your face,…
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Grandpa Pressley’s New Ground
Today’s guestpost was written by Charles Fletcher. Charles Fletcher’s Grandpa Pressley in later years. Grandpa Pressley’s New Ground written…
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Baptizings in Southern Appalachia
Pastor Hoyt Brown with arm raised in prayer; Pastor Aud Brown with head bowed; small child in white Tipper Pressley;…
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RSS Feeds, Emails, and Comment Info
Several readers haven’t been getting their daily Blind Pig and The Acorn email. I wish I could blame it on the…
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Kale Report
I haven’t shared a Kale Report since last November. Sow True Seed sponsored my Kale Reporting @ Large Project. If you missed the…
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Long Johns – Long Handles – Drawers
Last February Barbara left this comment on the Blind Pig: Just wondering…what do you know of the different names that…
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Oil Lamps
The old oil lamps were put back in use again Wednesday morning, the time the electric lights were off in…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Hearing Voices that are Gone
A girl in Appalachia, high on a mountain top viewing her world while she hears the voices of those who are…
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A Good Day for Tater Soup
The chilly temps that have moved into western NC made me start wanting a big pot of soup. The cold also…
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Weary Lonesome Blues
After yesterday’s post about being lonesome I thought I’d share a song about being lonesome with you today. I posted…
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That Lonesome Feeling
Ethelene Dyer Jones – January 2013 What brings on that lonesome feeling? Sometimes it can be triggered by a sight,…
