Dear Lord, send rain. "Well my lands, it is good to see y'all, won't y'all get down and come in?" That of course was a holdover from the mule and wagon days, and hoss (daddy never said "horse") riding days when you literally had to get down, not out. I heard that often years ago or, we all did, actually. But I doubt anyone ever heard it from a Peebles. Peebles were too "cyurse" (curious) to want company, they only set on the front porch after dark so no one would stop to visi

Hello my friends, thank you for checking in on us, it is always great to see each of you here. I am getting excited about our upcoming GF&FL Fish Fry, and I sure hope you will join us there, if so I think you will be glad you did. Lee Webster and Joe Jeselnik are working to make sure it is a great event. Once more, let me give you the details. It will be held at Joe Jeselnik's venue 117 Dalton Drive, near Waynesboro, Burke County. It will be held from 11-2 Saturday, April 25t

It is Monday again! Wow, I know I sound like a broken record, but danged if these Mondays ain't coming so close together it is like a town so small that both city limit signs are on the same post! Okay, let me start: My youth was right there, right there where I left it, I was done with it, thinking I would never miss it. So many of those I loved, have gone on ahead, they were just here, seeming just while ago, it can't be, that must not be right. Behold, old things have pass

Again and again, these days roll by, it can't be Friday again, no way! It was Friday only yesterday. Evidently it is Friday, I double-checked. The weather has been nice and cool of late, but my goodness is it evermore dry. Has anyone remembered to hang a snake over a fence? Have you ever heard that folk belief, that holds that hanging a dead snake on a fence will bring rain in a drought? Not only have I heard this, I have actually seen several instances of it being done years