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- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee January 31, 2020
- A Song of Unity from Long Ago August 19, 2019
- Beautiful Hills of Home August 16, 2019
- When Your Family Tree Becomes All Hung Up July 22, 2019
- “The Storms are on the Ocean” as a Metaphor for Homesickness June 15, 2019
- “Excuse Me, May I Look Inside Your Biscuit?” May 3, 2019
Top Posts & Pages
- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee
- Robert Sayers Sheffey, Mountain Preacher and Man of Prayer
- Compromise Church
- Appalachian Lexicon
- Remembering Vacation Bible School in the '60s and '70s
- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
Tag Archives: Cattle
Recycling, . . . Sort of
On the farm, we try to take care with things and use them as long as we can, since cash isn’t growing on trees. At least not on our farm. So we do things with the things we have so … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian, braces, Cattle, compost, decay, farm, farming, fertilize, grandfather, grandson, hay, manure, manure spreader, money, nervous, recycling, retainer, tobacco, work
Christmas with Boiled Custard: I’ll Have Mine with Calf Slobbers!
One of the ancient Christmas traditions in our family, living near the south bank of the North Fork of the Holston River, in Scott County, Virginia, was to gather in at the old family homeplace. Granddaddy Ketron was still living … Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian, Cake, calf, calf slobbers, Cattle, christmas, Cousins, Custard, family, farm, granddaddy, holston river, Mammaw, merangue, milk, milk cow, pappaw, refigerator, scott county virginia, southern
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The Big, Green Truck
There is something about a truck. In my growing up days, I was a frequent passenger in Pappaw’s 1930s model large cattle truck. It had a big on-the-floor gear shift with a green knob on top. The starter was on … Continue reading
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Tagged 1957 chevy, Cattle, Chevy, Cowboy, driving, Gate City Virginia, Kingsport, Kyle Hill, pappaw, stock yard, truck
Picking Out a Christmas Tree
The snow had mounted up just to the bottom of our shoes. A “dusting” of snow transformed the landscape into a wintry scene, while not endangering travelers too terribly on the old road that curved around the back of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cattle, cedar, cedar tree, Christmas tree, farm, Great Depression, hay, Pasture, patience, snow, Tree, waiting
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A Trip Through the Pasture
Often in my childhood, my grandfather would take me with him to the back pasture. It was a healthy walk from the house up through the hayfields, past the tobacco patch, to the pasture gate. Sometimes we would ride the … Continue reading
