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| Meade County, Kentucky |
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
An Invitation
I would like to take this opportunity to ask each and every visitor who stops by and reads this to participate in Moosewood Sundays.
What is a Moosewood Sunday? Well, it can be anything you wish that has two essential ingredients: Food and Love. It can be something as simple as just taking a moment to be thankful you are sharing some time with someone you care about or as elaborate as preparing a meal for others. Or maybe you will join us and try a few recipes?
We now have this wonderful technology that brings people from all over the world together in small unpredictable ways. Sometimes we take life for granted. It is easy to do.
I stood on my front porch last Friday afternoon watching the sky for tornadoes as I have done for nearly 40 years when there are warnings. I am a survivor of a deadly F5 tornado and in my home county we lost over 30 people that day in 1974. My family was fortunate, only a couple lost their homes and one lost their life. All of my family, however, was close enough to hear that terrible deafening roar and most of us had sought shelter in buildings that were damaged or totally destroyed.
Such an event changes your life. You are spared. Others aren't. While I strive to remember that today is all we have I was reminded again Friday that our lives hang in a delicate balance. We really may not have tomorrow, let alone a happy tomorrow.
Seeing those weird colors in the sky Friday just like that afternoon 40 years ago brought it all back like it was yesterday. Cherish today. Enjoy and be thankful for those that enrich your lives.
It just so happened that an old friend and I decided to eat our way through some Moosewood cookbooks on Sundays as a celebration of friendship. ( Moosewood is a pretty famous restaurant in Ithaca, New York serving mostly vegetarian food.) Technology allows us to do this via her blog and texting. You can find her initial blog post here .
I invite you all to join in whatever way you would like! Make some new friends! Reach out to old friends, or maybe just practice an random act of kindness. We know the world can use more of these things.
Feel free to leave comments or email me. I hope to figure out how to disable the encryption box to make it easier. Until next time...........................................................................
P.S. I switched back to the old interface and found the box to disable encryption! Please some kind person leave a comment to test it out for me!
What is a Moosewood Sunday? Well, it can be anything you wish that has two essential ingredients: Food and Love. It can be something as simple as just taking a moment to be thankful you are sharing some time with someone you care about or as elaborate as preparing a meal for others. Or maybe you will join us and try a few recipes?
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| Moosewood Gumbo Soup |
We now have this wonderful technology that brings people from all over the world together in small unpredictable ways. Sometimes we take life for granted. It is easy to do.
I stood on my front porch last Friday afternoon watching the sky for tornadoes as I have done for nearly 40 years when there are warnings. I am a survivor of a deadly F5 tornado and in my home county we lost over 30 people that day in 1974. My family was fortunate, only a couple lost their homes and one lost their life. All of my family, however, was close enough to hear that terrible deafening roar and most of us had sought shelter in buildings that were damaged or totally destroyed.
Such an event changes your life. You are spared. Others aren't. While I strive to remember that today is all we have I was reminded again Friday that our lives hang in a delicate balance. We really may not have tomorrow, let alone a happy tomorrow.
Seeing those weird colors in the sky Friday just like that afternoon 40 years ago brought it all back like it was yesterday. Cherish today. Enjoy and be thankful for those that enrich your lives.
It just so happened that an old friend and I decided to eat our way through some Moosewood cookbooks on Sundays as a celebration of friendship. ( Moosewood is a pretty famous restaurant in Ithaca, New York serving mostly vegetarian food.) Technology allows us to do this via her blog and texting. You can find her initial blog post here .
I invite you all to join in whatever way you would like! Make some new friends! Reach out to old friends, or maybe just practice an random act of kindness. We know the world can use more of these things.
Feel free to leave comments or email me. I hope to figure out how to disable the encryption box to make it easier. Until next time...........................................................................
P.S. I switched back to the old interface and found the box to disable encryption! Please some kind person leave a comment to test it out for me!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
I'M BACK Y'ALL!!!!
Did you miss me? I've been lurking around peeking into your blogs and occasionally leaving a comment, but what I thought was going to be a few days turned into most of the winter!
Are you familiar with that cute little contraction, "y'all"? I'm sure if you are from the southern United States you smiled a bit or giggled. If you are from the northern United States you probably rolled your eyes and thought "O no, here we go again!" If you are not American then you may not be familiar with it.
Y'all is one of those terms in the vernacular that natives just use without thinking. How y'all doin'? Where y'all goin'? Y'all come back and see me! It is used to refer to a group of two or more. If you prounounce it just right you just swallow those l's at the end. There really isn't any reason to enunciate them. Y'all need to get on to the next word! Y'all can be young folks, or old folks, mean or nice, ugly or pretty it really doesn't matter it's all y'all to us here in the south.
I used to look down my nose a bit at people who used "y'all" on their blogs. I mean, my middle school english teacher would probably take a permanent marker and put a big red circle on her computer screen if she saw this lil' essay with that contraction! But y'all know what? I'm moving past that and I'm gonna use y'all on my blog now. I might even use some other bucolic aphorisms from time to time if it suits me. I think technology is a wonderful thing, but By Cracky, I think regional language is too! It has history. It is passed on through generations from family to family. I fear it may become extinct from all this technology and new slang that has emerged from rap and hip hop. I'm going to do my part to preserve it. I might even use "ain't" once in a blue moon if I take a notion. Who knows? I'm going to live a little and ignore a few rules! I think y'all will enjoy it too!
Y'all remember that winter kale I planted? Well we have had a mild winter and even the collards survived and I've had plenty of fresh greens to eat on. Here is a mix I picked Sunday.
Scarf had her bath and was air drying before I boxed her up and sent her to south Alabama to my friend. She is a soft lovely combination of baby merino wool, mohair and silk. She is soft as a baby's ass. Warm too.
Well, I'll see y'all later. Come back and see me y'hear?
Are you familiar with that cute little contraction, "y'all"? I'm sure if you are from the southern United States you smiled a bit or giggled. If you are from the northern United States you probably rolled your eyes and thought "O no, here we go again!" If you are not American then you may not be familiar with it.
Y'all is one of those terms in the vernacular that natives just use without thinking. How y'all doin'? Where y'all goin'? Y'all come back and see me! It is used to refer to a group of two or more. If you prounounce it just right you just swallow those l's at the end. There really isn't any reason to enunciate them. Y'all need to get on to the next word! Y'all can be young folks, or old folks, mean or nice, ugly or pretty it really doesn't matter it's all y'all to us here in the south.
I used to look down my nose a bit at people who used "y'all" on their blogs. I mean, my middle school english teacher would probably take a permanent marker and put a big red circle on her computer screen if she saw this lil' essay with that contraction! But y'all know what? I'm moving past that and I'm gonna use y'all on my blog now. I might even use some other bucolic aphorisms from time to time if it suits me. I think technology is a wonderful thing, but By Cracky, I think regional language is too! It has history. It is passed on through generations from family to family. I fear it may become extinct from all this technology and new slang that has emerged from rap and hip hop. I'm going to do my part to preserve it. I might even use "ain't" once in a blue moon if I take a notion. Who knows? I'm going to live a little and ignore a few rules! I think y'all will enjoy it too!
Y'all remember that winter kale I planted? Well we have had a mild winter and even the collards survived and I've had plenty of fresh greens to eat on. Here is a mix I picked Sunday.
Siberian Kale, Red Russian Kale and Georgia Collards
Y'all see that? That's a "mess" of greens. It is an ambiguous unit of measurement but any southerner that cooks can tell you when they have a mess. It just depends on how many of y'all are coming to eat! We also use that term to refer to a person that is sassy funny. That ole So And So, he's a MESS!
I better be going now, lunch is about over and my boss don't pay me to jabber away telling people the proper usage of our dear southernisms. But before I leave y'all I'll show y'all one of the scarves I made this winter for a friend.
Well, I'll see y'all later. Come back and see me y'hear?
Friday, February 24, 2012
Meet Puppet!
I have been laboring away at my job so I've not had time to blog. Most of the winter has been used to crochet things. I've made scarves for friends, purses, wallets and my favorite.......PUPPET!
Sorry you have to turn your head to see him! I have no clue why the pic comes in like this as it shows up perfectly in photoshop. I was falling in love so I had to send him away quickly. My little niece christened him Realfiki. Isn't he lovely?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Barn Charm #6
Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Looks like old vs new with that prefab door.
Linking with Tricia Bluff Area Daily.
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