Do You Know What This Is?
It’s been a long time since I shared a What is it? post, but a few months back I received…
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Dating Old Photos
Today’s guest post was written by Janet Smart. I love old family photos. I have lots – wish I had…
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Odd Eating
A while back Jim Casada wrote a guest post about unusual eating habits. If you missed it you can go…
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Words of Life – Almost 50 Years Old
Ray, Henry, and Jerry (Pap) – The Wilson Brothers The first album Pap and his brothers ever made, “Words of…
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Butter Beans
butter bean noun A small lima bean.1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 73 Butter beans is a common expression for…
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The Spring at Grandpa’s
A spring Pap used for our gravity water when I was a girl I cannot hear of mountain springs without…
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Baker Furniture Andrews, NC
Table donated by Baker Furniture in Andrews, NC before closing in 2000. The plant opened in 1965. The signatures and…
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Planting by the Signs for August 2023
Our garden is still producing but in places we can see the signs of plants giving out. Since it’s August…
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A Tough Ole Bird
Granny with one of her sweet great grandchildren I was blessed to be raised by two of the toughest people…
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Jellies, Jams, Preserves, and Fruit Butters
Peach Jelly I’ve not made one jar of jelly, preserves, jam or butters this summer. That is a very strange…
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Oh Hard Times Come Again No More
“Hard Times Come Again No More” written by Stephen Foster Let us pause in life’s pleasures to count its many tears…
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Overheard
“Can you imagine an ear of sweet corn as big as a saw log? I’d put a deacon at each…
