Thankful November – Granny’s Family Loved to Laugh
Sense of Humor We have a good sense of humor, although it is sometimes delivered in a deadpan fashion, in…
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Thankful November – Keeping Your Mouth Shut
“Fred’s family were frequent visitors, happy to have him near them again. I still didn’t feel comfortable around them. Maybe…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2023
Today as all of us are eating good food and fellowshipping one with another I’ll be thinking of all the…
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Thankful November – Point Blank
To speak “point blank”—very directly—is French in origin and comes to us from the game of archery. We all know…
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Thankful November – Saving Seeds
There was nowhere to buy seeds, so we saved them. Once we got’em, we kept’em. We’d leave a row of…
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Thankful November – Good Food & Winners
Mine and Jim’s cookbook is continuing to sell well. We’ve been so pleased and humbled by the success of the…
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Smoke Along the Track
This third train song from this year’s series came from the great Stonewall Jackson. Like many other train songs, “Smoke…
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Thankful November – Snowstorms
“Several years ago there came a great snowfall in western North Carolina. The Red Cross came to help people who…
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Thankful November – Rats!
Summer brought a phenomenon never seen in the mountains. We awoke one morning to find the camp filled with huge…
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Thankful November – Seasons
In the summer many of the women like to can. It seems their season. They sit on kitchen chairs on…
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Thankful November – Chestnut Memories
They stand like gaunt, whitening skeletons among the living giants of our mountain forests. And the old man grows nostalgic…
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Thankful November – Winners & Values
Today I’m sharing the first series of winners from this year’s Thankful November Giveaways. If you see your name please…
