I would like to introduce myself. I'm a soon-to-be 80 years old girl of the fifties who remembers my grandmother telling stories when I was a child of how the Confederate soldiers would stop by her house when she was a little girl to draw water from her family's well for a cool drink
I'm a real product of the South where cotton is known as “white gold”.
After marriage a farm was our livelihood where we raised a family and did our best to contribute to the growth and progress of our area
Farming was a good way of life back then even though, financially, it tended to be feast or famine depending on the weather.. We would pray for rain but not too much rain which was a never-ending cycle
After retirement it was so nice to realize that whether it rained or not didn't impact my way of life too much.
Back then on the farm we raised cotton, soybeans, corn, pigs, cows, horses, sheep, ducks, chickens, gardens for personal use and a slew of pets that included a rabbit, a cat, 2 dogs and even a raccoon named Coco.
It was truly a busy but fulfilling life.
Some of the sayings that I grew up with in the South and are still uttered today you may recognize as well:
Chester drawers -A chest of drawers
Barking up the wrong tree- you are talking to the wrong person about that
Bless your heart- a statement of pity
Roasin ears- corn on the cob
Put it up- place it there
I reckon- I guess so
Croaker sac- a heavy duty sack woven for transporting heavy produce like potatoes
Over Yonder- over there
Too much sugar for a dime- the cost is too much to make sense
Galls me- rubs me the wrong way
Sass- children's back talk
Pert near- almost
I will be writing more on this platform God willing and the creek don't rise= if things go as planned.
