<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Georgia Folk and Farm Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Discover GeorgiaFolkandFarmLife.com—your home for Southern stories, heritage, farming, and rural life. From Facebook to full website, join us!]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:05:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[I WAS A HOT MESS INDEED, THAT DAY!]]></title><description><![CDATA[IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK New Beginnings in Christ began holding our annual "Bikefest" fundraising event with motorcycle ride, and day event complete with my special, delicious grilled chicken (remind me to give y'all the recipe, this year's Bikefest was held yesterday, and others do the cooking now). I cooked the chicken for the first one, and the next five, year after year, ending with the one in May of 2016. It was just weeks after I founded this group here on Facebook. As usual, I...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/i-was-a-hot-mess-indeed-that-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fe863857c1b4d987685740</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:42:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_ad29214a326a42db9545f47f67bff0ae~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_600,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE ATLANTA AQUARIUM? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[ADMISSION IS FREE Do you recall the smoking area of Atlanta's Airport? It was nicknamed the "aquarium," and it was fun to gawk at.]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/the-atlanta-aquarium</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb7e445caf4ed272c03229</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 17:50:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_5c699c862fb9479fbde8c8c81723f33d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copy of IT IS A BIT ODD]]></title><description><![CDATA[You know Superman and Clark Kent were never seen in the same place together, and I recently added Yassir Arafat and Willie Nelson to that list. How about lil Miss Sunbeam and the Coppertone Girl?  These are the profound thoughts that dominate my mind. Huhuhuhuh...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/copy-of-it-is-a-bit-odd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb5a386d919e5ce8730127</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:12:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_d9d3687882bb43bba20cff6fa564101a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_259,h_194,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[IT IS A BIT ODD]]></title><description><![CDATA[You know Superman and Clark Kent were never seen in the same place together, and I recently added Yassir Arafat and Willie Nelson to that list. How about lil Miss Sunbeam and the Coppertone Girl?  These are the profound thoughts that dominate my mind. Huhuhuhuh...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/it-is-a-bit-odd</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb57b08a769b9e6e005616</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_d9d3687882bb43bba20cff6fa564101a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_259,h_194,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRANKENBREAD!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's alive, it's ALIVE!! Have you noticed that bread is immortal now? It doesn't go stale, ever! I had a loaf that was months old, and was still fresh, so I was getting somewhat afraid of the bread that never went bad, so I pulled a "Lizzy Borden," upon it with my trusty cub scout ax, dug a hole and buried it. Three days later, I saw that the hole was empty, and the bread was back on my kitchen counter, and it was completely healed! I have no idea what they do to it to make it live forever,...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/frankenbread</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fb50587c961ad0b9006eb6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:50:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_561965d4dda243d9b903badac2d9df99~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_823,h_823,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND SOME PEOPLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[HE DENIED HIS SON, AND I WILL FOREVER WONDER WHY! It was probably 1978 or 1979, and a friend asked if his friend could fish in our pond. I did not know the guy, but he told me that he was full time with the National Guard, and wanted a place to take his young son fishing. Well, I was sold on that immediately, a man serving our country, and taking time to do things with his little boy, was a shoo-in. He came the following Saturday morning, and as I often did, when the man drove up and then...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/i-will-never-understand-some-people</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa8fdab27e981e27c867d1</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:10:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_5c32516cda454e96a36d71269e879d5d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA["SIR, WE ARE SORRY, BUT YOU MUST REMAIN ON THE RIDE UNTIL IT STOPS!"]]></title><description><![CDATA["When and where does it stop?" "HUHUHUH, it stops on you very last ride." I had an appointment with Dr. Randy Brown today, my primary physician. I was hoping we could maybe cutback on the blood thinner, but alas, no dice. I was hoping for something effective for reducing the searing burning pain I suffer with, almost from head to toe constantly. But, no dice, anything he could give me would interfere with my ability to avoid clots related to my stents, provided by Plavix. Hernia repair,...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/sir-we-are-sorry-but-you-must-remain-on-the-ride-until-it-stops</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69fa79bc7c961ad0b9fecd39</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:31:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_2715387dd1c4430aab9df521be513484~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2026 BY WADE PEEBLES]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay boyz, here we go again! Hello from ground zero, here at the "We Boyz Three Plaza" in verdant, lush, aromatic &#38; odiferous, scenic, lackadaisical, lovely, Garpatch (Garfield) in east-northeastern Emanuel County. The lovely belly-button of Georgia. That reminds me of "Granny" Miles of Baxley, who was a real character indeed. She was a well off business woman, and widow, owning businesses in her area, and the old stockyard in Jesup among others. Her sister, "Aunt Doll," was usually with her,...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/tuesday-may-5-2026-by-wade-peebles</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f949395caf4ed272bb99fb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 03:08:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE Monday, May 04, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Numbers 6: 24-26, KJV I looked away for a moment and another Monday had "jumped flat-footed, turned a sommerset, caromed off of Sunday, then flounced right here on the ground in front of me, like a mullet on a 'strang'!" I had a hummigbird buzz me Friday morning as I sat outside, you know how they do, when they return in the spring and figure every house oughta have a couple of feeders out for them. I had not had any since moving from the old house just up the road, but I reckon the...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-monday-may-04-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f7ffe9981e3dffa6404085</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 03:39:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE SATURDAY, 5-2-26]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello! Thank the Lord for this rain, let us give him praise! Let us not be a stiff-necked people, nor fail to remember how we beseeched the Lord in our time of need. All too quickly, we dismiss thoughts of need or want, when He delivers us. Think about why He made us, and how little we think of it, when the sailing is smooth, the road not bumpy, and we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, we can be lost in the tunnel, ask Him for rescue, and when again the light is there, just for us...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-saturday-5-2-26</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f5feb190b4365cb862db3f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 13:55:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE APRIL 30, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello! It is Thursday morning, and we got no measurable rain earlier in the week when many did, nor did we get measurable rain yesterday or today. Lately, watching the radar, it is a pattern that is all too familiar, with widespread rain that fizzles out as it approaches Garfield. Several years ago we watched that happen regularly. Rain would surround us, but it was as if there was a force repelling the rain, causing it to dissipate just as it reached us, then it would coalesce again just...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-april-30-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f33a403e77ce9ce8a51b21</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:14:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_639d90f8660742ecbd3c2f4969bfa427~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_410,h_540,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday, 4/24/2026's REMEMBERAMBLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[I arose from this, to write just for you Another week in the bag, like a late night snipe. Did you ever have someone who cared enough for you to take you snipe hunting? Few if any young folks these days will ever know the sheer joy of bagging a snipe and having a snipe supper feast the following evening, if your mommer cared enough for you to makes grits and biscuits to go with it. Unless Tencent or Sony produce a video game called, "Snipe Hunt," young folks today will look at you with dazed...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/friday-4-24-2026-s-rememberamble</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ea88ada4befc7c9f3a660c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:57:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_35e0ade24baf4e288e45c7e57dfa6e43~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[REMEMBERAMBLE!! April 23, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kang and Emporer Wade 1st, Princes Conway &#38; Merle, ruler of all of the Canoochee-Garfield Metropolitan area, and Emporer of all of Pinetucky I know some of you have murmerred a bit about my crown and why it is really a half-crown, have you seen the price of gold lately? Have you seen the cost of shicken these days? We are not a wealthy kangdom, at all. I know as your Kang, I have always run on the platform of not taxing squirrel eggs, nor pine cones from oak trees, but that may change soon. I...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/rememberamble-april-23-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e95c185c49a7c1bfc94085</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:05:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_58771995b05e47b6936e07bd9cbc8bcc~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE FOR WEDNESDAY, April 22, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[HEY Y'ALL Welcome my friends. Let's sit and talk about some things. For some reason saying that brought to mind one of my favorite bluegrass tunes, "Hot Corn, Cold Corn." Many recorded it over the years including Flatt and Scruggs, but my hands-down favorite was "Ole Strang," Stringbean's version. The line I thought of was, "come along boys, make less noise while the old folks is sleeping, come on down to the barnyard and have us a little banjer pickin'." In that song, the corn being referred...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-for-wednesday-april-22-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e85099b4b58d88d84e5914</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:42:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_180f195e7ef047d6bf63e919f584e715~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[HELLO FRIENDS ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tuesday, April 21, 2026 HEY YOU! YEAH, YOU! Hello. It's nice to see ya. It's been a long tiiiiiiii...oops, wow, oh shoot, gosh, I sure am glad I caught myself! I was getting really close to sounding like "him," that guy with the bouffant hair that couldn't sing worth a whit. I am glad I pulled out of that dive, woof, man, that was a close'un. My hands are still shaking. Lawd'amercy, now that was a close call! Let's start over. Howdeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Oh, heck fire, now I am sounding like...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/hello-friends-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e6b98ca96d49e56ec6812b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:42:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_565f795825f64ab8b4bf35c18b3e7bba~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Monday, Monday...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monday, April 20, 2026 It is once more Monday, and like all of the recent ones, it is a dry one. Our forecasts say some rain later in the week, but they said that last week but it was all frittered away before we got any. I would so love to sit under my carport watching it rain all day. We say the words about our concern for the farmers, and many pray daily asking God for rain for them and for us. But, you must be a farmer to understand the import (no, I did not mean to use the word...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/monday-monday</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e5626819350a75f16d1c93</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:17:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE Wed., April 15, 26]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 visit....]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-wed-april-15-26</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dee0c047c3def1ffedb36b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:08:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_31cfad4956a04deb819d4815524cea53~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A REMEMBERAMBLE, Tuesday, April 14, 26]]></title><description><![CDATA[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&#38;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 25th. You can bring...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/a-rememberamble-tuesday-april-14-26</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dd88bc602a28f5308b133d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:17:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MONDAY, APRIL 13/2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 passed away, and all...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/monday-april-13-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dc396e43e56f31776ef6c4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:35:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[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 ago. I am done...]]></description><link>https://www.georgiafolkandfarmlife.com/post/friday-april-10-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d900ecf6703ec22bea1892</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/17600c_eba79894a6d946be93b0b1b06c7b68bf~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Wade Peebles</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>