I’m sharing another riddle from Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties by James Still.
At three months of age it has a full set of teeth and golden hair. At six months it is snaggle-toothed and bald-headed.
The last riddle I shared was from from Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties by James Still.
Which side of a fox hound has the most hair?
Several folks got this one: the outside.
Last night’s video: A People and Their Quilts 3.
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I think an ear of corn. I’m really not sure.
My first thought was an ear of corn. Dandelion sounds interesting, but they don’t last months.
Love this had to copy and share.
“Raise an Appalachian child.
Who rules over all that is wild.
Who screams with crows
and dances with foxfire.
Raise an appalachian child.
Running barefoot on mountain ridges,
dandelions granting their wishes.
Raise an appalachian child.
drinking from the creek, swimming in the river.
The lightening bug catcher and the banjo picker.
Raise an appalachian child.
Who listens to the hills and talks to the bees.
Chasing the chickens and stringin up beans.
Raise an appalachian child,
Fingers stained with wildberries
Ghost stories about things big and hairy.
Raise an appalachian child.
Eyes always filled with wonder
Bright as lighting and roars like thunder.
Raise an appalachian child.
Untamed.
Unashamed.
Wild.
Raise an Appalachian child.”
-Georgia Clyde Blair
Love the riddles! I give up on this one!
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Buttercups are coming up in Johns Creek, GA. The green is about 2 inches up from the ground!
I agree with SRJ. An ear oof corn. My maternal grandmother, Lexie Britt, White Pine,TN, loved riddles but I could never solve them. I care ver deeply for you and your whole family. Thank you for the life you have given to us..
HOW DO I SEND A PHOTO OF A QUILT YO YOU.
Allen-you can email it to me at: blindpigandtheacorn@gmail.com 🙂
TIPPER WHAT A MEMORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. MY MOTHER AND OTHER LADIES WOULD MAKE QUILTS. I SLEPT EVER NIGHT ON A HOMEMADE QUILY AS I WAS GROWING UP. WE WOULD USE THEM UNTIL THEY WORE OUT. MY MOTHER AND FATHER GREW UP POOR IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY . THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN 1918 . I REMEMBER 3 OR 4 LADIES COMING TO THE HOUSE WE RENTED FOR $20.00 A MONTH. MOTHER AND HER FRIENDS WOULD BUY SCRAPS OF CLOTH OR USE THE UNSED PIECES OF A PIECE OF CLOTH SHE HAD MADE MY LITTLE SISTER A DRESS. THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY QYILTS THEY MADE FROM THE 1940 TO THE LATE FIFTIES. AFTER LISTENING TO TOU READING THE BOOK ON QUILTS I FOUND ONE IN THE CLOSET. DAD DIED IN 2001 AND MOTHER DIED IN 204 I JUST FOUND ONE OF THE QUILTS AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IT. I HAVE TAKEN A PICTURE OF IT BUT DON’T KNOW HOW I CAN GET TO SHARE IT UNLESS YOU CAN TEXT ME AND I CAN SEND YOU A PHOTO. IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT HERE IS MY CELL PHONE. 314-809-0996 I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SHARE THE PHOTO. IT’S NOT A FANCY QUILT BUT THE KIND MOTHER AND HER FRIENS WOULD MAKE. THE BACK IS LINEN AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN USED JUST FOLDED UP. THERE WAS A SECOND ONE BUT IT WAS NEVER FINISHED. AS I JUST LOOED AT IT THE STITCHING IS JUST PERFECT. AGAIN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT AND SHARE IT MY CELL IS 314-809-0996. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING BACK MEMORIES. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ALLEN CHARLES SMITH BORN MARCH 10 1941 COMING UP ON MY 83 THIRD BIRTHDAY.
Just an outrageous guess…a sunflower? Anyway, hi Tipper and Paul!
Sunflower is a really good guess.
I’m stumped…can’t think of any animal for the life of me…umm…I just gonna of with go with The Balds in the Appalachia mountain tops? Golden grass in the spring? Teeth, mountain chain? Bald in the winter six months later? The mountains look Snaggle toothed in the winter?
I don’t know the answer myself, but I think SRJ has it right in saying it’s an ear of corn.
Norman Chester, we are rejoicing with you and thanking God you feel better. Prayers for your complete recovery.
Tipper, we continue to pray for Granny and for all your family.
That was my guess too, an ear of corn, but I don’t know.
From the Quilt book reading yesterday, I really liked the picture of Granny Irwin’s quilt. I like the look of that quilt and how she put The LORD’s Prayer right in the middle of it. I guess I have never thought of it that way, that when the precious items were packed away, saved and either only used for certain occasions or never at all, since they were saved we have those now to see, as you explained. I have several quilts that I found in in the cedar chest that I inherited from my mother, I have no idea who made them; nothing about the story of them. Most of them are really not even that pretty and quite stiff and heavy. I am guessing they are from either her or my dad’s homeplace, and guess what? I still have them packed away but I cannot talk about them in any informed way because my mom never talked to me about them or told me why she had them; she simply left them for me to have them and her cedar chest. Growing up my mother had her wedding patterns and crystal. We never used them. Occasionally we would get to use the beverage glasses of the crystal but we had to be extra cautious with it so it was not chipped or broken. I still have her patterns in my dining room cabinet and crystal along with my wedding pattern and crystal. I always thought she should have used it all more but if we had I wouldn’t have the whole set today. We do use our set on special occasions throughout the year, started when my children were old enough to use the stemmed beverage glasses. This Christmas is the first, in 30 years, that I, myself – because I am the accident prone one, broke one of our crystal beverage glasses : ( I hope that our children remember when we are gone – special meals, hopefully good, even delicious, foods to celebrate all the special times we had together using our special dishes. I also like how you point out and add how women would like to be remembered and that it was not just the men who care about how they are remembered long after they are gone.
Didn’t figure having corn for breakfast. Hee ha ha
a dandelion
Guess I’m not so good at riddles but ear of corn does seem to be right:)
I have admired quilts and treasured those made by my Mother and Grandmother and I know how creative they were in making them. Your reading of People & Their Quilts really brought out how creative they were when you read a quilter took THREAD from other items to work into a quilt. That would have really been time consuming unraveling the thread and I would have never thought of a person doing that and yet when material and thread would not have been as easily obtainable – genius!
I thought people would want to use their quilts, but I remembered my Mother made a coverlet, I think it was called a Scratch Coverlet. It is beautiful but I have never used it. I keep it stored away.
I vote with SRJ. This riddle is about corn.
corn is a great guess! I have no idea. May our Good God bless Granny, the babies to come, the Deer Hunter and yourself!
I’m going say a dandelion though the fit isn’t perfect. Good thing it is “months” instead of “decades” else it might sound like a description of somebody? I, and our son, had blond hair as a little boy. We are not bald yet but we aren’t blond either!
It has to be corn and if not it should be. 🙂 It goes from a tasty ear of corn to a “snaggle toothed and bald headed” corn cob.
A dandelion?
Ear of corn
I’m thinking a corncob, but that’s not my final answer.
Hmmmmmm….. I’m gonna guess an
EAR OF CORN???
Can’t figure this one out…it must be some animal???…Loved yesterday’s read as usual. Don’t know about planting, but this almost 60 degree weather in January seems strange. Almost scared to start thinking in the planting directions. What will I do when they sprout and it turns cold for month. Prayers for Granny and you guys. Stay warm and well.
Good morning friends of Appalachia, thank you very much for praying for me, I’m feeling some better at this time, praise God Hallelujah
TIPPER WHAT A MEMORY YOU HAVE GIVEN ME. MY MOTHER AND OTHER LADIES WOULD MAKE QUILTS. I SLEPT EVER NIGHT ON A HOMEMADE QUILY AS I WAS GROWING UP. WE WOULD USE THEM UNTIL THEY WORE OUT. MY MOTHER AND FATHER GREW UP POOR IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY . THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN 1918 . I REMEMBER 3 OR 4 LADIES COMING TO THE HOUSE WE RENTED FOR $20.00 A MONTH. MOTHER AND HER FRIENDS WOULD BUY SCRAPS OF CLOTH OR USE THE UNSED PIECES OF A PIECE OF CLOTH SHE HAD MADE MY LITTLE SISTER A DRESS. THERE IS NO TELLING HOW MANY QYILTS THEY MADE FROM THE 1940 TO THE LATE FIFTIES. AFTER LISTENING TO TOU READING THE BOOK ON QUILTS I FOUND ONE IN THE CLOSET. DAD DIED IN 2001 AND MOTHER DIED IN 204 I JUST FOUND ONE OF THE QUILTS AND WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IT. I HAVE TAKEN A PICTURE OF IT BUT DON’T KNOW HOW I CAN GET TO SHARE IT UNLESS YOU CAN TEXT ME AND I CAN SEND YOU A PHOTO. IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT HERE IS MY CELL PHONE. 314-809-0996 I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SHARE THE PHOTO. IT’S NOT A FANCY QUILT BUT THE KIND MOTHER AND HER FRIENS WOULD MAKE. THE BACK IS LINEN AND IT HAS NEVER BEEN USED JUST FOLDED UP. THERE WAS A SECOND ONE BUT IT WAS NEVER FINISHED. AS I JUST LOOED AT IT THE STITCHING IS JUST PERFECT. AGAIN IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT AND SHARE IT MY CELL IS 314-809-0996. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING BACK MEMORIES. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ALLEN CHARLES SMITH BORN MARCH 10 1941 COMING UP ON MY 83 THIRD BIRTHDAY.
Allen-you can email it to me at: blindpigandtheacorn@gmail.com 🙂
Glad you’re feeling some better on this cold day.