Momma Said

I am not ready for the dark! It is too soon for it to still be dark when I wake up at 6 a.m. I don’t like it and I will tell the world. I am a child of sunshine. I would be happy if the seasons never changed, I...

I still have flashbacks of mom with her hair up in curlers and her bandana wrapped around her head. It didn’t matter to her what she needed to do, if the hair was in curlers she did it, if it was mowing the grass or going to town for something....

Tragedy has struck me down. I lost one of my cats to a hit and run this past week. I was devastated. She was only two years old and just a sweetheart. And once again, my one true friend came to the rescue. She has helped me out in so...

The garden is doing great. So far I have canned 13 pints of bread and butter pickled squash and 36 quarts of green beans. I am going to have a truckload of tomatoes, if they ever decide to get ripe. Momma Said, “I think I will have to break down...

How many out there have ever heard these words? “Don’t make me come in there.” Those were words to put the fear of God into every one of us growing up. When we heard those words, we knew we had pushed that last button, broke the camel’s back and frazzled...

Momma Said, “It is hard to be politically correct when dealing with stupid people. There, I said it and I am glad.” You just have to stop and wonder how some people have made it this far in life. Seriously, when we were in grade school, we were taught geography....

Katie, the cat, has adjusted just fine to being a house cat. She has been putting on weight and is playing like crazy. I have a few cat toys, but her favorite pastime is sliding on the kitchen rug. She will run through the house as fast as she can...

I have met a lot of very nice people since coming to work here at the paper, but one lady stands out of the crowd. Her name is Beulah, which is not a common name, but I did have an aunt by that name. She comes in every week and...

Greed is a very powerful thing. It can take hold of a person and make them into a monster. It can rip the soul from your very existence. I have had experience with this and it is not something I wish to go through again. Momma Said, “Greed corrupts from...

Have you ever played the game of having a group of people together, start telling a story, pass the story down the line of people and see how far it is from the true beginning of the story when it gets back to the start? The story just seems to...

Do you help your neighbors? I do my best to help friends and neighbors when the need arises. I am pretty handy at things women don’t usually tackle. All thanks to my momma. I can do most anything I set my mind to from landscaping to plumbing or roofing a...

Spring is officially here, the lawn has been mowed. The mower fired up on the first pull so that was a good start. The yard looked like an old man that needed a hair cut. Now it is manicured and dapper. Mom would have mowed about six times by now....

Most of the farmers in the area are having their calves coming and I just love to see them playing in the fields. I used to keep cows and I loved this time of year. The little ones are so cute and of course I would name every one of...

The weather has given us a small window to get outside. I took advantage and took a walk around the block. It had rained earlier in the day so the mud puddles were numerous. As I rounded the corner, I noticed a little girl around the age of three playing...

It looks as if Old Man Winter is going to hang on for as long as he can. Calling for snow again, so I guess March will go out like a lion. It is hard to believe that three months of this year are already gone. It was a long...

I recently saw a picture of a mother dog saving her puppies from a house fire. She carried each puppy out and deposited them in the side box of a fire truck that was on scene. The unconditional love of a mother is something that is priceless. The sacrifice and...

Saturdays were a special time for us when we were kids.  Number one, no school, and number two sometimes, just sometimes, Mom would take us to town.  On those Saturdays, the movie theater in town would be having a food drive so we could get in for the afternoon with...

Tiddly Winks, Marbles, Jacks, Barrel of Monkeys, Pick-Up-Sticks, Lincoln Logs, what happened to the games that taught us strategy, dexterity, and logic? Now all we have are games that everyone tries to see how many people you can kill. Momma Said, “The only dexterity you get is to see how...

The school system is scrambling to find a way to fill the required 180 days of instruction for West Virginia schools. My solution is to change the school calendar from the summer break to the winter break. Kids start school, then they are off for Labor Day. Go back to...

I hope everyone has gotten shoveled out from the latest round of snow storms. I can’t remember a winter where we had so many storms, that the weather service has started naming them. It is crazy weather when it is 29 degrees here and 60 degrees in Russia at the...