The kitchen floor is still a little sticky. It will get scrubbed Monday.
I blogged last year about our adventures in canning, We drug out the jars from the crawl space under the house and washed and readied them. “My mother would have been proud of you for saving these,” said Bruce. [...]
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Can It
Posted in food on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Peaches in a Jam
Posted in food on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is peach season in South Carolina and Georgia. Even though Georgia is called the Peach State, South Carolina produces more. And we live right down the road from the peach capitol, Edgefield County, the home of the late Strom Thurmond, in fact, his son, Strom, Jr., was the state’s top [...]
PEWS
Posted in food, music on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is what our priest defines as “people enduring wooden seats”. And we did, indeed, endure the equivalent to them several weeks ago.
I already mentioned that we find unusual things to do on Saturdays. A couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of our trip to north Georgia and a Bluegrass Festival, we drove over to [...]
Heavens – What Grit
Posted in food, travel on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still amazed at all the stuff there is to do around here, if you just look for it. In Thursday’s paper each week there is a listing of the activities in the area for about a 50 mile radius. I read it thoroughly.
When Bruce and I first started dating in the late [...]
The Ham Loaf Chronicles
Posted in Family, food on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Uncle Gene, my father’s youngest brother and the last of the siblings, recently passed away at the age of 87. He went gently into that good night at a hospice with his family near him . My cousin, Susan, his youngest daughter, contacted several cousins who passed on the information to other [...]
March of the Gingerbread Men
Posted in Christmas, food, pets on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I like gingerbread cookies. Like the cream cheese cookies, I usually only bake them once a year. Why I wonder? There is no admonition that says you can’t fix them anytime. But they are really tasty in the winter, especially with hot tea or coffee.
Yesterday I got out all the ingredients and [...]
Oh Cookie!
Posted in Christmas, Family, food on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I vacillated for over two weeks about baking Christmas cookies this year. On one hand, they are part of the tradition here; on the other, none of us needs the extra calories. So, yesterday I broke down and stirred up a double batch of Kathy’s Semi-Famous Cream Cheese Cookies. It is actually [...]
Oh, Happy Day!
Posted in Family, food, home, life on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The day of the Hubble reunion dawned bright and cool. A beautiful day, unlike the sweltering, humid days of the two past years we have attended. I believe the reunion has been going on annually on the second Sunday of August since the 1930s. My first recollection dates back to the 1950s. [...]
Bread and Butter Pickles
Posted in food on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our little garden is giving us tomatoes at a steady pace and cucumbers for the table and a pepper here and there. However, a couple of weeks ago we stopped at the Farmer’s Market and bought 20 pounds of cucumber and a 5 pound bag of sweet Vidalia onions. In anticipation of pickles, [...]
Freezers and Birthdays
Posted in Family, food on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Emily’s 6th birthday! On our way out the door for her party, I opened the freezer on the back porch to discover it was off — and had been for several days. We hadn’t had a meat meal since Saturday so the loose plug could well have happened then. Rats, [...]
