Black Southern And Eccentrically Me

My grandma was the kind of grandma that canned veggies from her garden, strangled chickens that she raised, gutted and cleaned hogs for curing, sewed quilts and dresses, went to town once a week for supplies that she didn't make or grow and helped grandpa during tobacco harvesting time. She put on her "Sunday best" wig and hat, donned her deaconess white suit and vinyl black handbag with the customary mints with the hint of moth balls. She lined us all up for Saturday night baths in that big ol' washing tub and scrubbed the skin off of us! Grandma wore knee highs that she knotted at the thighs and cat eye classes. During the weekdays she wore her house "frock" with her everyday apron and Saturdays she wore her "Second best." She fed the tall wirier fire and brimstone preacher and his mean ol' hawk nosed wife Sunday dinner. Grandma reigned Queen and all of us adored her. During the summer she would have just about all her grandchil...

After years of trying to pigeonhole myself into what I thought I was supposed to be, I decided that I'm just going to "do me!" I'm a Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, student, active learner, reader, country girl at heart. I love history, flea markets, farmers markets and reading about people who live simpler lives.