The Good Earth Memories:




Bologna sandwiches
Brazil nuts and oranges at Christmas time
Burning off the garden
Chiggers, poison ivy, poison oak, sumac
Chinquapins, beechnuts, hickory nuts, buckeyes, walnuts
Chopping block for the chicken
Chow Chow
Churning butter
Colored baby chicks at Easter
Cooking with lard
Copperheads, black racers, and rattlesnakes
Corn Pones
Cornbread and black pepper in a cold glass of buttermilk
Cornstalks and haystacks
Cutting mistletoe
Digging rocks out of the garden
Finding a double yoke egg
Fish and grits for breakfast
Fried fruit pies (apple, cherry, peach, pear)
Fried okra, fried green tomatoes
Gathering eggs from the hen house
Getting sick eating green apples
Going blackberry picking and getting scratched all over
Going to the garden with a salt shaker to eat a fresh tomato or cucumber
Hand cranking the ice cream churn
Homemade biscuits and gravy
Hominy
Licking the mashed potatoes off the mixer beaters
Livermush for breakfast, souse, and sow belly
Making apple butter
Making snow cream
Mouth puckering up from a not yet ripe persimmon
Ordering baby chicks through the US Mail
Paw paws, persimmons, ground cherries, ramps
Peanut butter and banana (mashed with a fork) sandwich
Picking out pin feathers
Plowing with a mule
Poke salad
Putting up beans, greens, tomatoes, peaches, pears, etc.
Roasting ears
Roasting marshmallows in the fireplace
Saving the rooster for chicken and dumplings
Scuppernongs, muscadines, bullisons, and concord grapes
Slopping the hogs
Smell of new plowed ground in the spring
Sopping the fudge skillet
Sound of a Bob White quail or a whippoorwill
Wild strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, sassafras tea

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Jim Daley
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