mammy and pappy

Mom was worried that I would encounter one on the path. She mowed the grass for them. These are just the names that everyone calls them. Some people would stop and ask Pappy if he needed anything from the store.

Mammy always fed them the leftover scraps.

The mountainside that the house was situated on had a nest of copperhead snakes living on it. Wallpaper was installed in three rooms, and floors were sanded. One day I would love to have a house with a tin roof on just the porch to hear that sound again.Pappy had a porch swing that he would sit on all day long.   Kind of neat to hear Bud from a general store ask how Pappy was “gettin’ on”.Mammy and Pappy lived in a house that Pappy built in 1910 in a holler. Mammy and Pappy's B&B.

This was the introduction to Mammy and Pappy and where they lived. | ProPublicaCountdown to Sunlit 3.0: new post editor manton.org@kaa If someone links to your post and sends a Webmention, it should show up in the Mentions section of Micro.blog. You have to have a lot of patience though because very few cars went by, but I waved with Pappy at every single one of them.

I could usually get one then only to be told my Mammy to let the cat go, so it could eat.

It is a special place.As this article is already longer than I expected, so I’m going to break it up into sections. Why Won’t Anybody Listen?

When I was a kid, they had a cow. This house did not have any running water or plumbing. Thanks. Over the years many family gatherings have taken place here and we pledge to show family hospitality to our guests.

A little of everything from work to family to thoughts on things in general by Mec2973As a part of my “I Remember” series, I would like to talk about my great grandparents on my mom’s side: Mammy and Pappy.

At least this one was the weakest—melanoma in situ—but we are both ready to be done with this shit from here on out. So, each year at the hottest point of the summer we would head south to visit.Pappy was a carpenter and that is how he made money when my grandfather was growing up.

Come to the Country and enjoy the quiet charm and elegance of the 100 year old farm home.The house was built around 1900 and has had many changes over the years.

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That’s the way it is down there, everyone takes care of each other which is something that has been lost today.Mammy and Pappy had just a small patch of grass on either side of the house. My best chance was when Mammy set the food out to feed them.

Welcome to Mammy & Pappy's: Come to the Country and enjoy the quiet charm and elegance of the 100 year old farm home. Basically means copy/pasting some JavaScript into your Micro.blog-hosted blog under Posts → Design → Edit Footer.So my wife is now technically a four-time cancer survivor. They scared me to death! Dad is big on family.

Get information on Mammy and Pappy's on KentuckyLake.com. The cats were really wild and I could barely catch one to pet it. The funny thing was that they did not have a lawn mower or anything. The home and surrounding property have been in the Clendenin family for over 100 years. But if I sat on the outside of the swing, I interrupted Pappy’s ability to spit out his tobaccy.Part of the fun of sitting on the swing was waiting for a car to go by.

Our guests will be treated to a full country breakfast, including homemade biscuits.If you experience problems with this website please Down there, you only remove the trees you have to and leave the rest. It was easier. Timing was everything.The roof of the house was tin. @prologic Just to be totally clear, what @johnjohnston and @maique said is right, your timeline is who you follow, not curated.

Two children were lost at very young ages. Every evening there was a rain shower that would pass through, and if you have never heard raindrops on a tin roof, you should go and find one somewhere. Today’s changes include refinshing of all the wood floors and new flooring in the kitchen and utility room. Accidentally broke that today while updating the server.Migrated sunlit.io to be a Micro.blog-hosted site. Btw, Mammy and Pappy are not their real names.

Nope not Memphis either.

A new electrical panel was installed for the new wiring. Mammy and Pappy had 9 kids. The previous site was running on Nginx/Ruby but not doing much except redirects, so I was able to replace the whole thing with a custom Micro.blog theme and a little JavaScript. Do you have an example of where that's not happening? You know I don’t really remember sitting on any other chair other than the porch steps.

It was a simple time in my life, but I believe it was the most enjoyable and relaxing time. Strongly recommend anyone staying there. However, my mom was usually in the creek with me to try to keep from getting to hot, so I had no worries.There were always tons of cats/kittens around. They settled in a small town called Tazewell.

My grandfather was one of the youngest.

My reply was always: “Tennessee. The reason I hated the outhouse was the wasp nests that were in there.

I used to sit in the porch swing with Pappy.