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our friend nancy sold her big ol’ house to our friends kat and susan. the wonderful spirit of the big ol’ house lives on in their wonderful, colorful arrangements and accents around the home. here’s a look - stay tuned for more on the big ol' house!
if you have ever driven south, i am sure that you have stumbled upon not just one but hundreds of waffle houses along the way. eating at them is always an experience....and i mean that in a good way. they still crack every egg by hand, make every hash brown to order, the coffee cups are stacked in perfect order, and i am always amazed at their shouting system of relaying orders. their old time system works and those pecan waffles keep me coming back!
it's no secret that there is no shortage of creative folks here in athens. apparently this has always been the case. last night we went to Cine to view the movie "the world's smallest airport"- a documentary of the thrasher brothers aerial circus. all i can say is, it was fantastic!
if you didn't catch it in athens, there is a free screening at the elberton theater in elberton, GA.
see a trailer of the movie
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you can get mac and cheese at just about anywhere you go in the south- and everyone does it different. some cheesy..some creamy. some better than others.
yesterday i made
which i cannot take any credit for. it was surely worth mentioning though. this is one of the best mac and cheeses that i have ever eaten. the nutmeg in the recipe may sound strange but trust me it makes it amazing.
thanks to the warm weather....we have lots of blooming happening.
our friend nancy has quite an eye for antiques and really has a knack for putting it all together. for years, she lived in a ‘big ol’ house’ chock full of visual treats. now she’s moved in to a smaller house that she created from a shotgun house she moved to her property and added onto, with the help of her talented carpenter friend, james. lots of wonderful additions were made, and now it is just perfect, with a treehouse like porch on the back overlooking the woods. here are some pics of the pleasing interior.
this time of year you see collards everywhere. the frost has sweetened them up, and out in the country, you might see a whole truck load of collards. if a crowd is coming for new years, you may see people cooking up a black cast iron pot full over a fire. some people still do it that way, but most cook a big pot full in the house. we picked a pile of leaves and simply chopped them up, and cooked them down. we ate them seasoned up with a little soy sauce and apple cider vinegar. we had enough to eat for 4 days, just keeping them in the pot on the back porch at night. good eatin’!
i visited etowah indian mounds recently. the mounds are up near cartersville. the main mound is the largest indian mound in the southeast, at 61 feet. the dirt was all dug from a trench created around the base of the village that was there. with no shovels, buckets, or any kind of tools we know of, this mammoth mound was built. it is 1 acre big at the top, and is where important ceremonies took place. it was built sometime around 950 a.d...by the time deSoto arrived in 1520, it was deserted, and the indians around there had no knowledge of its history. the vista from the top includes a gorgeous view of the etowah river and surrounding fertile plains, as well as white man’s trailer park, and, on the horizon, industrial towers belching smoke. the lives of the indian inhabitants are surrounded in mystery, as is the future of white man’s progress.
