Best of all, she can be yours (hopefully, mine). All you have to do is go to the "By Your Hands" blog to enter the giveaway. You can even get 3 chances to win!
Julie of "Prim Country Creations" hand-crafted "Abby". And, as one of the ways to earn an extra chance in the giveaway, you will get to go to Julie's shop and see some of her other items. I'm tellin' ya...everyone one of them is just as wonderful as "Abby".
The gals at "By Your Hands" showcase the best giveaways you'll find, so you will definately want to become a follower of their blog.
And, since all of you are such sweet, sharing people, you will absolutely want to share the "By Your Hands" link with all your blog friends.
Okay, now I have already given you the list of things to do to win "Abby"...so, why are you still here? Click on one of the "By Your Hands" and get busy. :-)
Saturday, July 3, 2010
The 4th of July
Moccasin Holler Style
My sister, brother and I were lucky enough to have cousins our ages. They were the "city" cousins, but we never held that against them. They lived about 40 miles from us and we spent a lot of time together. The 4th was really special. The big ole washtub got drug off the back porch and filled with ice and sodas...something we didn't get very often. And, on the 4th we got to drink as many as we wanted. Unfortunately, they usually ran out before we drank our fill.
Our celebration actually started on the 3rd. Daddy would dig a pit in the back yard and Mama would bring out one of the grills from the oven to make sure the pit was the right size. Mama would get some pork steaks and pork chops out of the freezer. These were from one of the hogs that we had butchered the fall before. We had our own chickens and I'll tellin' you, those critters knew what was comin'. Thankfully, there were always a few that couldn't outrun Daddy!! There was always plenty to cook over that pit. Mama made her famous potato salad, our aunt brought her delicious strawberry shortcake and between the two of them we had all the fixins. Daddy would gather in a big basket of roastin' ears from the corn field and fix up another tub of ice water for the watermelons our uncle would be bringing.
By late afternoon of the 3rd, the city kinfolk had arrived and the games began. We had relay races around the house, played Annie Over, Jacks and snuck boloney or bacon out of the refrigerator, tied pieces to a long piece of twine and fished for crawdads in the big ditch across the road. This went on pretty much all night. Finally, when we were too tired to go on, we headed to the tent. Now this wasn't just your ordinary tent...it was special!! We gathered up pieces of rope and strung it between trees then went inside to the quilt stack and drug out enough quilts to make the sides of the tent with flaps hanging in the front and back and to cover the ground inside the tent. We lit up the old kerosene lantern and went to sleep listening to Mama and Aunt Edith talk about their lives.
We woke up bright and early, but Mama was already fixin' breakfast outside. While she had the bacon and sausage cookin', we would go to the henhouse and gather up the eggs. I think I liked breakfast better than the 4th of July dinner (that's lunch to you northerners).
Those days were filled with wondrous things...sodas, hand-churned ice cream, roasted marshmallows, swimmin' in Little River and so much love that you couldn't stir it with a stick.
I have started a new list on the left side bar so that I can get the news out on some of the great giveaways that are going on. I am happy to have The Old Cupboard Door as my first.
To go to Willa' s blog and enter to win this beautiful and collectible piece of art just click on "The Old Cupboard Door" in the left sidebar.
Don't you just love it? It was made by an extremely talented artist who just happens to be one of my OFG sisters, Brenda of "The Rusty Thimble".
I stumbled upon this beauty while checking out one of Brenda's sales. (If you have never visited Brenda's sales, you have really missed out!) I want to give Brenda a special "Thanks"...I am so, so happy with my little lamb!
Now, FYI, you can find more of Brenda's beauties and get the info on her sales and giveaways by just clicking on these links:
Have you ever had peeling nails? I have to the point that my fingertips were painful. Thankfully, a nice Nurse Practitioner did some research and found that sometimes the cause can be due to a kind of yeast infection. And you are not going to believe the cure:
VINEGAR
Yep, just soak your fingers for 20 minutes each day in a mixture of vinegar and water. She didn't know the exact ratio of vinegar to water, so I just dolloped some vinegar into a cup of water and soaked.
I was amazed at how fast I could tell this was helping and soon the nails were beginning to clear up. And, as a bonus, my very soft nails are now much stronger.
Don't be afraid to give this a try...the NP assured me that it couldn't hurt, even if there was no yeast infection.
I've always known I was a classy lady. I just didn't know until today just how classy I really am!!!
I will be as delicate as I can in describing the events of today. It began around two o'clock this afternoon...many of you, I'm sure, have experienced it...that mounting feeling of pressure that comes from drinking too much coffee and water. Yep, I had to pee really bad!! I calmly asked one of the girls to watch the registers while I excused myself...took off like a gazelle to the ladies room...it was occupied. I went back to my work area and took the stance...you know which one I'm talking about...waited a few minutes and went back to the ladies room. Hallelujah, it was empty. I dashed in only to find there was no TP!! Went back up to the front, grabbed a couple of packages of TP and got sidetracked by customers!! Got them waited on and walked quickly back to the ladies room which was occupied again!! Now, I'm in pain and my eyes are turning yellow as I go back up front only to get waylaid by more customers. As I wait on them, trying not to cry and still holding on the the two packages of TP, I begin to go over the pros and cons of Depends and wonder if Ron would consider stocking them in the lumber shed...something to think about. Finally, the customers have been waited on and I am free to return to the ladies room...here is where the classy part comes in. As I turn and head for the ladies room in a dead run, I turn to the girls up front and begin to wave both packages of TP in the air while yelling back at them, "I'm headed back to try this one more time."
I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted. I hope you all haven't given up on me! Lots of great things have been going on at the "Old Farmhouse"...a fabulous giveaway, the Spring Fling Celebration and more.
Not much has been going on on the ridge. I've just been going to work, coming home, eating, going to bed and doing the same thing over again the next day, etc., etc., etc. That is, until yesterday morning...I got one of those phone calls that you never want to get telling me that my brother was in an automobile accident and was being taken by helicopter to the hospital with possible head injuries. Thankfully, the cat scan confirmed what we knew all along...his head is too hard to have suffered injury. :) Unfortunately, his left hand and right knee didn't fare so well. The hand has a broken bone and the knee cap was split down the center and separated from the rest of the knee. Surgery was done today to put the knee back together...it went well...and both the hand and knee are in casts. Bless your heart, Tony, I pray you heal quickly and completely.
I plan to have my first giveaway soon to celebrate my second year with the Old Farmhouse Gathering group. I will be posting more on this the first part of next week.
