“I’ll be by sometime this evening before dark.”
Last night’s video: The Panther on Cold Mountain & Other Stories 7.
Tipper
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Love everything you share about your life and Appalachia. I bought your cookbook and enjoy reading it along with your making the recipes in it.
Now, maybe it is the optical visual from your camera, but is your cookbook bigger than the new ones being published? Just curious.
Will there be a second cookbook, you think?
Vonnie, I’m so glad you enjoy what we do! We appreciate you!! The cookbook is the same size. I’ve had several people say they thought it looked bigger too 🙂 But there is just one size. Jim and I are currently working on another project so stay tuned. Thank you!
I live very much on a light-based schedule, and “in the evening before dark” is exactly when I do the last round of barn chores. The only time I pay attention to clock-time is when I have an appointment.
While y’all are getting rain in the south we are getting snow and wind here in the north. Thinking about all of my Blind Acorn friends and praying for your safety through the storms. God bless each and every one of you. I enjoy reading all of your comments every single day. Community has changed in modern times and it feels good to have this human connection albeit through a screen, in these times.
Hi Tipper,
It is raining a slow soaking rain that could kill an old sheep.
I grew up on a party line telephone. There were 8 folks on the line.
If you wanted to call any of them you had to put you figure on the button
where the cradle of the phone sits and dial the last four digits of their number.
You could feel the rings. When it stopped they had answered. Neat way of keeping in
touch with everyone. BUT, when one called someone anywhere the phone would giggle
or vibrate. Then the ladies would go pick up and put their hand on the speaker and listen in.
One time all the neighbors were listening in to Louisa and Myrtus talking. My Grandmother
sister, Ora was having difficulty with balance but refused to give up caring for her garden on her
own. She fell in the the garden. The garden wasn’t in full view
of Grandma’s front room. My grandmother yelled into the phone that Orie had fell in the garden.
Before Grandpa and Grandma along with Aunt Pauline got there, Mamie and her husband, Myrtus and
Elbert, Louisa and Kenneth, plus Harry and Hassie were there trying to figure out what to do. It ended up she had had a stroke and was hospitalized. Thank heavens for the old party line. Kathy Patterson
Before she and grandpa could get
yall are like family, please tell your mom hello for me ,I love seeing a little glimpse of the boys sometimes.
One thing that causes confusion about depending on the Sun and not a clock to determine the time is that in my part of the world at least the words “noon” and “afternoon” are rarely used. “Lunch” too. We have breakfast, dinner and supper.
I think I explained all this before but that was probably before most of the readers, at least those who comment, where here. I’m not going to redo it all again. I am old and sick and don’t have time left to say those things that need to be said much less stuff I’ve already said.
Ed, you are very funny! This is the second time you have made me laugh today reading your comments.
Hi Tipper, Matt and Acorns. I got a slow start this morning. Praise the Lord I had a blessed nights sleep. I hope y’all did too. I love these little snip-its of overheard conversation. Something similar came to my mind. “I’ll be there directly (dye-rec-ly or drec-ly) .” I love saying it, using the second pronunciation. Makes me think about when we pray and GOD hears how differently we all talk and understands perfectly. HE created our languages and formed our dialects. HE meant us to hold dear to our gift. I’m tryin’ hard. I keep you all in my prayers here on the blog and up Wilson Hollow. I love Y’all.
When I was small and mama sent me to tell daddy supper was ready he always said tell her I will be there directly. Until I was older I thought he was saying “the reckly”.
My mama would call someone who was typically late or if we were poking along, “Miss Drec-ly”. Such as, “If you don’t get a move on, Miss Drec-ly, you’re going to miss the school bus!
This time of year here the sun starts to set behind the trees about 2:30 PM. By 5 PM it is “gettin dark”. By 6 PM it could be “black dark” depending on the cloud cover. “Before dark” could fall anywhere between those times.
I would recommend that you not look for this person ’til you see them coming.
I guess I always felt if the Sun was still up it was afternoon. Evening was from Sundown till bedtime. Lately, bedtime seems to arrive an hour or so earlier than it used to. If I live much longer I’ll be going to bed when the chickens start to roost.
That sounds like something we say. My grandparents use “by” a lot that way. Makes me happy to hear it/read it. Hopefully I can pass those phrases down to my children.
Praying for you all! ❤️
Prayers for all
Seems at first to not be saying much, but the frame of it is daylight-to-dark. To people who do not work on a time-for-money basis, the hours of being able to see is the basis. When that is so, you have the independence to ‘adjust on the fly’ and add in something else before dark.
“I’ll be by sometime this evening before dark.”
In other words, “Heavenly shades of night are falling/It’s twilight time…”?
Tipper that picture of you in the green shirt and gray sweater is the best picture!
God bless you all and may you OVERHEAR something PLEASANT AND GOOD about yourself as opposed to what we usually hear! Lol Amen and the Lord bless you and keep you this day! NORMAN, I just want to encourage you this day as I pray for your health and safety!!! May every one of you OVERHEAR pleasant thoughts and prayers flowing from my heart this morning for ALL of you!!!!
I have heard and sometimes have said this or something very similar. Nowadays after cataract surgery a few years ago if I am not there before dark, I ain’t coming and if I am there until it gets dark, I might spend the night! My eyes have always been sensitive to light and now are more sensitive after the surgery. Headlights and especially these new car headlights nearly blind me. I can get by on 4 lane roads, maybe 2 lane roads with good paint lines, but I am plumb dangerous on these unpainted lines back roads when meeting another car. I no longer drive at night unless I absolutely have to, I get someone else to drive if I will be out after dark.
heavy rain today, waves of rain to come, the local weather man is talking about tornadoes, Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus, please guard ,protect us keep us safe and well in Jesus name, tomorrow it will be freezing weather, I just planted some winter grass, my timing was wrong, I hope it will grow, God bless you and have a great day, a note to Tipper, I don’t know why when I go to put in my email address, I guess because I have four different ones, but usually something different from the one I signed up to get this from shows up first, like autofill, so from now on I’m just going to use the email that shows up first, for the information box, thank you and God bless you
Good morning Norman and all the acorns. Norman, I love that you start off praying for all of us and I thank you for that. Probably most of us have had our trials and medical ‘adventures’ and one of the ways that helps me through mine is to pray God shows me how to use my experience to help someone else. When I read of others here who are going through challenges and how they rely on Jesus to hold their hand and guide them through, it helps me realize again how God gives us tender mercies every moment.
And I must say, He surely has Granny in the palm of his loving hand.
Norman, I am not that far from you and would often come very close to you when going to visit my uncle in Chattanooga. He has now died and I haven’t been over that way in a long time. I liked stopping by Bill Elliot’s museum at Dawsonville. I tried to avoid Atlanta at all costs. Your winter grass will probably be ok as long as the ground does not spew up. Some farmers around here have planted winter grains during the last few weeks. I live in southern Greenville County, SC and our weather is very similar to yours, you just get it before I do.
good morning Randy thank you for the information, boy it came a flood here yesterday, thank you for comforting me about the grass coming up, have a blessed day my friend, I used to live in Dawsonville myself, that’s where I started school, that’s where I quit school,
Norman, if you hover over the emails you don’t want to see there will be an X at the end. If you click the X that email address will go away. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it, it just means you’ll have to type the whole address in again when you do.
thank you Ed, I will check into that
Prayers for you and the folks in the deep south as the storms move thru. We are getting lots of rain. It will snow/ice here in the NE TN Mountains on Sunday.
good morning friends, the rain is really heavy here in North Georgia, I live close to some really tall pine trees, I hope one don’t decide to fall over on the house, once again, thank you for praying for my brother and thank you for praying for me, God bless you and your family, God bless Granny