Planting by the Signs for August 2024 & We Have CORN!
We have corn! You likely heard me hollering about how thrilled I am all the way at your house 🙂…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 176
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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Smut
Today’s guest post was written by Ed Ammons. I have smut in my corn. Want to see? Ain’t it pretty?…
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Potato Harvest
grab, grabble, gravel verbTo dig up with the hands, esp a potato early in the season, and smooth back the dirt around the…
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Drought, Rain, & Old Songs
Photo by Lonnie Dockery Well hush up honeyLittle darling don’t you cryThings have got to get betterIn the by and…
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Seasons Come, Seasons Go
We clean, plow, disk and hoeWe water, weed and watch our crops growThen we gather and preserve the bounty of…
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Sweet Williams
Despite being five generations removed from my Tennessee ancestor, I still grew up learning to use many of those words…
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About Dusky Dark
Yesterday I walked down to the big garden about dusky dark. Our drought like weather has left like a stranger…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Sunflowers
I planted sunflower seeds twice this summer and exactly one came up and grew. It’s blooming now in one of…
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Celebrating Granny and Birthdays
Granny with her 7 great grandchildren (and one on the way), some of their parents, and my brother Steve Granny…
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A Mess of Fried Okra
mess A noun1 A collection or portion, esp of meat, sufficient for a meal.1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 98 I…
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He Is I Am
Today’s post was written by Paul. For years, I played gospel music with Pap and his brother Ray in NC,…
