It’s Ooshie!
A good while back Blind Pig reader Lorie Thompson left the following comment: I read your blog with delight! Your…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn in 2016
Wow where did 2015 go? It seems only yesterday I was telling you about the goals I had planned for…
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New Ground
Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English New ground noun [ sometimes with stress on ground ] An area newly cleared for cultivation…
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Appalachian Sayings – Tough as a Pine Knot
The saying tough as a pine knot means, well it means you’re tough! It’s a saying I’ve heard all my…
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Chess Cake – An easy dessert!
I was a child when I first tasted Chess Cake at a church decoration or other such get-together. Granny never made…
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Let the Lower Lights be Burning
Pap and Paul have been fooling around with the old song Let the Lower Lights be Burning for the last…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Winter Finally Decided to Show Up
Winter finally decided to show up in Southern Appalachia. With Christmas temps in the 70s the bite of cold weather…
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5 Things
1. I like to do my Spring cleaning right after Christmas. As soon as I start taking down the decorations…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 85
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test take it and see how you do! Agg Aggravatingest Akinned Amind Astraddle…
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Old Christmas
Entry for old Christmas from the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English: old Christmas noun An alternative observance of Christmas, celebrated…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn – 2015 In Review
Every January I take a look back at what I’ve written during the course of the year. It helps…
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Lemon Bars – Something I didn’t know
Chitter It’s funny how we give attributes to our children, you know traits that we assign them from ourselves or…
