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Here is “Round 19 ” of your
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E-mail: Carolina.country@ncemcs.com
Mail: P.O. Box 27306, Raleigh, NC 27611.
Phone: (919) 875-3062.
From Jana Parker, Welcome
- To get to your best friend’s house, you go along the creek, down a beanfield, across a bridge, down a cornfield, on a woods trail, between two cornfields, and past the pig lot.
- You and your best friend camped out in an old dump truck, got eaten up by skeeters, but had a cat to protect you.
- You climbed up on top of the combine to watch the sunset.
- You kept a baby pig in the house so he wouldn’t get too cold and had to stay up all night listening to him cry.
- The biggest thrill of your day was playing in the mud after a rainstorm or rolling down the hill in your front yard.
- You go to the high school football game for social reasons, but you find out the final score to tell your parents so they think you watched the game.
- You had a weenie roast in the middle of a cow pasture, played in the creek, then stood next to the fire to watch the steam rise off your pants.
From Larecia Bullock, Oxford
- You like salt herring.
- You name the places where you fish, such as Black Cat Hole.
- You’ve stood outside waiting for the ice cream truck to come.
- You’ve walked down a long dirt road to catch the school bus.
- Morning glories are one of your favorite flowers.
- Names of churches and roads in your community contain the word “Creek.”
- You sop molasses.
- Your favorite magazine is Carolina Country.
- You sold your cucumber pickings to have enough change to buy an ice cream at the local drugstore.
From Twyla Fowler, Fayetteville
- You know what it means when somebody’s not studying you.
- Your grandpa always had a dog named Bossman.
- You know nothing beats grape hull jelly on homemade biscuits for breakfast.
- You know the many differences between yardbird eggs and store-bought eggs.
- You save all your bacon drippings and use them for frying eggs and flavoring everything else.
- You call everybody “Baby.”
From Sammy Bailey, Wingate
- Your mother would fuss if you stood with the Frigidairy open.
- If you had a sore throat, one teaspoon of moonshine with rock candy in it was the cure.
- You and your father made poppers for your bicycle spokes out of paper and clothespins.
- You never dig up the volunteer tomatoes when plowing the garden.
From Tina Cole and Lois Shumate, Wilkes
- Your grandmother says, “Don’t touch that, you know it’s piezin!”
- You ask your grandmother for a bag to put beans in and she says, “Go get a poke.”
- You have to take a stick with you to the barn because your Dominiquer rooster tries to spur you every time you turn your back.
- You put half of a door screen on your ‘68 Ford 3000 tractor to keep the hay out of the radiator.
- You play tunes on the tie downs of a flatbed trailer.
- You put a tarp on the back window of your ‘87 Blazer to keep the rain out because the window won’t roll up.
- You cut bamboo in the pasture, then tie it on top of your ‘92 Blazer to haul home and stake up your tomato plants.
From Earl Auton
- There are big retrievers in the bed of every other pick-up truck.
- You give directions using KFC and Waffle House as landmarks.
- You still see Dale Earnhardt tributes on cars.
- You can’t imagine life without Bojangles’ sweet tea.
- You have a sunburn from May to October.
- You can tell the difference between cotton fields and tobacco fields while driving by them.
From Margaret Miller Hall, Matthews (formerly of Rockwell)
- You take a bath in the creek after a hard day’s work.
- You run to the spring and get water when the mason calls for more mortar.
- You ride the horse to the store to get a 25-cent block of ice.
- You go to the watermelon patch and burst a melon and eat it with your fingers.
- You boil your clothes in the wash pot after they have been scrubbed on a washboard.
- You ride a horse-drawn wagon with your dad for 10 miles to get homemade molasses.
- You get a 50-pound block of ice from the ice truck once a week to put in the wooden icebox.
From Lorrie Shorts, Raeford
- You knew not to do anything bad when your mama couldn’t see you because Jesus was watching.
- You knew not to drink ice water too fast when you’re hot because the monkey will get on your back.
- To heal your hunting dog from a snakebite you feed him fatback grease and milk.
- You know what yellow root is and where to find some.
- You have put a watermelon in the river to get it cold while you were swimming.
- You know to NOT to go snipe hunting, because you’re too smart for that.
From Opal Southern, East Bend
- You have made kraut and grapeleaf pickles in a crock.
- You shaped butter in a butter mold.
- You have floated down the river on an inner tube.
- The first thing with a motor you drove was a tractor.
- You have eaten stuffed pepper and cornbread.
- You pulled up fresh spring onions and ate them with cornbread.
- You warmed water in a No. 3 tub by sunlight for bath water and then bathed in the tub.
- You used a crosscut saw to cut logs into lengths to fit the stove for heating and cooking.
- You have drunk locust beer.
- You have sliced apples in small pieces and put them out in the hot sunshine to dry.
- You have eaten chicken soup cooked in a large black pot that had squirrel in it.
- You put ashes on cabbage in the garden to keep worms off.
- You used small pieces of pine knots to start a fire.
- You hunted running cedar in the woods to use for Christmas decorations.
- You made frog houses out of mud with your foot.
- You put thread through two of the holes in a large button and pulled each end of the thread to make a whizzer.
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