Spreading The Love For September
I’m sending out a big THANK YOU to all the folks who took the time to comment during the month…
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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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Appalachian Writers
I’m not sure how I stumbled upon the writing of Vicki Lane-I think it was when someone told me about…
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Shape Note Singing
Quay Smathers When I put the gospel music question out to Blind Pig readers-most of the comments left had something to do with Shape…
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Winners Of The JCCFS Fall Festival Giveaway & A Question
Exciting news-at the last minute the Folk School decided there should be 2 lucky winners instead of 1. In case…
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Making Applesauce
Yesterday me and Granny went and got a few bushels of our favorite kind of apples-the FREE kind. One of Pap and…
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First Day Of Fall & Granny’s Soup
Today is the first day of fall, but with the high temps we’ve been having it really doesn’t feel like…
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2 Mysteries Solved
Thanks to the detective work of the Blind Pig readers-I was able to solve my 2 mysteries. First up the old…
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Want Tickets To The JCCFS Fall Festival – I’ve Got 4 To Giveaway
I grew up going to the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Fall Festival-most years Pap performed and I usually tagged…
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Cross Pollination Of Heirloom Tomatoes
I’ve done a little homework since Warren ask me if I worried about my heirlooms cross pollinating. I feel a whole…
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Ironweed
Roadsides and fields have put on their purple robe-Ironweed is in full bloom in the southern mountains of Appalachia. I read somewhere that Ironweed got it’s…
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Help Me Solve 2 Mysteries
A good friend recently gave me this old cast iron tea kettle. A lady gave it to him-and told him it was her Grandmother’s-and…
