Duncan

Duncan and Ann were at Knoxville Ice Bears game.

Yummy Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme drive thru after Ice Bears game.  Hot and delicious!

Merry Christmas Hockey Puck

Chris caught a errant hockey puck at the Knoxville Ice Bears game last night.   

He handed it to me and said "Merry Christmas".

More Southern Slang Words and Phrases

There are several posts on this blog about Southern Slang and old timey sayings.  And there continue to be more and more which come to mind.  It's never ending....fun.

Here are some of the latest I've remembered and some which have been shared.  These words and sayings are very hard for me to define.  I just use them without thinking of alternatives.  They just slip out.

• Wet my whistle = I'm thirsty and need a drink of water
• Hee hawing around = taking too much time to make up your mind about something
• For the day = referencing something in the past.  "For the day it was a good idea."
• Back in the day = "back in the day we didn't do that."
• Young whipper snapper = young person who needs to learn more about life.
• Those were the days = good memories of the past
• Not right off hand = I don't have the answer
• If they ain't a blessing', their a lesson.
• Couldn't hit the broad side of the barn = bad aim
• He was pickin' em up and puttin' em down = 
• I'm on top of it = someone asks you if you are completing a projected-or if you are on task
• It's so good it will get you tore up from the floor up
• Full as a tick = overeaten (I say "full as soft bellied tick")
• Pain in the neck = someone who causes you problems; annoying
• Like a sore headed cat = fussing at someone
• What you'ins do-in?
• Hanging in there like a hair on a biscuit = doing okay
• Worthless as teets on a boar hog = worthless person
• No good, do for nothing = worthless person
• Make like a tree and leave
• Spread out like an eight day wash
• Rode hard and put up wet = ugly woman
• Your squirrel headed dingbat
• He couldn't hit water if he was standing on a bridge = bad aim
• Hotter than a $3 pistol = stolen
• Broad as a axe handle = woman's behind
• Now, you straighten up and act like somebody = someone who is behaving badly 
• A heavy rain = frog strangler
• Dancing like a cat on a hot tin roof = in trouble
• Can't hit a cow on it's backside with a base fiddle = incompetent person
• Shut that door.  You wasn't born in a barn.  or   Shut the door. You wasn't raised in a barn.  = someone with bad manners.
• Scarce as a hen's teeth
• Makin' do = getting by
• Mad as a wet hen = extremely angry
• A worthless person is called "sorry".   "He's a sorry excuse for a father."
• Like a cat covering up poop on a marble floor.
• You gotta risk it to get the biscuit = to be successful
• You gotta pay to play = have to work to have fun
• Too big for your britches = cocky
• Got the big head = cocky
• Wild itch = you want to do something
• Expensive tastes but shallow pockets
• I have a wine taste on a beer budget.
• Cat steal a baby's breath.  In the olden days folks would say to not leave a cat in the house with a baby.  The cat would steal the baby's breath.  Wonder if that was actually cases of SIDS???
• Gully Jumper = folks who moved from Robinsville and Murphy, NC by crossing knobs into Corntassel and Soak communities in East TN.
• Mark your baby = if you see something traumatic while pregnant something will be wrong with your baby-such as birthmarks.  Ole wives tale.
• Ole Wives tale= gibberish that old women made up a long time ago or superstition. 
• Buy for what you think it's worth and sell for what they think it's worth.
• Fast as a cat can wink it's eye
• Jitterbug = nervous sort of person = hyper
• Just a tad = a small amount
• Did me in = emotionally taken on too much, can't handle anymore
• Sleep on it = think about something over night before making a decision
• Worry wort = someone who worries over everything
• No use arguing (crying) over spoiled (spilled) milk = it's already done, no use thinking about it
• Live high on the hog = think they are rich.  Wealthy person
• If I had my druthers = if I had my way
• Hick = hillbilly
• Maybe it'll turn'up = you'll find it
• Hurts like a boil = very painful-emotionally or physically
• I ain't got two nickels to rub together = poor = broke
• Hurts like the dickens = very painful.  Emotionally or physically
• Sweating like a pig = very hot
• I'm tore up = Upset, angry
• Crazy as a bessie bug
• "I'm right there with ya!" = feel what you're feeling, know what you're going through
• Let bygones be bygones = don't worry about it; it's in the past; let it go
• Give me a yell = call me on the phone or come visit me
• Holler back atcha = I'll call you back later or come see you later
• Galley vanting or galley batten = wasting time
• Runs over rocks it's okay - water in
•  a stream-it's clean if it runs over rocks
• Time to turn the mules out = go home or quit
• Whatever trips your trigger = whatever makes you happy
• Whatever floats your boat = whatever makes you happy
• Of the devil = very bad person.  "She is of the devil."
• A little bit honey on the biscuit goes a long way = if you are nice to people you'll get better results. show kindness
• Catch more flies with honey/sugar than vinegar =  kindness gets you farther
• Squeaky wheel get the grease/oil = speak up to get what you want

Please share Southern words or phrases or comments!  Would love to hear from you.

Links to my other Southern speak posts:

Southern Speak

Southern Slang

Air Words

More Southern Slang

More Southern Slang

None the same

Ants in your pants = Can't sit still

Pondering = thinking about something

Sweep under your feet = you'll never get married.

Stick in the mud = you're no fun

Awful pretty = you're beautiful

Wasn't too much long ago = just a while back = means a few weeks ago

You know better than that = said when you're in trouble with your parents

Feeling puny = feel sick

Common when leaving someone's house to say "come go with us"  or "go with us" instead of goodbye

Palm is itching = you're going to come into some money

Foot is itching = you're going to stand on strange ground soon

Nose is itching = someone is coming to see you

Ears are burning = someone is talking about you

Chill all over = devil walked by

Sudden quick silence = angel flew over

Hold your breath over a bridget = so it won't fall

Frozen Tattoos

I ended up with two snowflakes on my wrist from Frozen tattoo pack I gave Jack and Mallie Belle.  Love my great niece and nephew.

Fort Loudoun print

Oh. My. Goodness. Gracious.   I've looked for this print of Fort Loudoun 1756-1760 for years!!!  My sister found at a thrift store and called my other sister Lynette.  She went to snatch up.  I'm so excited to take for framing for office. Best Christmas gift ever!      Now where to hang.....

First funny of the 2014 tax year...

In the Trustee drop box.  No money inside. First funny of year.  Here's hoping for no nasty, personally aimed ones this year...

Paperclips

Colorful paperclips make me smile.........

Trouser

Beagle showed up a couple of months ago. Chris named him Trouser. Sweet beagle who needs to be gelded.  He might fit in here but....he hunts rabbits ALL night.  Would love to find a forever home for him to be a companion animal.  His left back leg is perhaps broken or has been before.  He isn't suitable for hunting.  Chris has been working on him with a lot of stuff.

The Walking Dead car

Anything that puts "The Walking Dead" on it is going to be a hot sell!

Babe-The Aussie that started it all....

This photo of photos didn't turn out well.  But this is me and my nephew Jamey with 

my sister Sharon's (Jamey's mom) dog Babe in the early 1970's.  Then again

with Jamey and I in high school when Babe was very old.  Babe helped start the Aussies of Sharon's Cobblestone Kennel.  Amazing lineage of Australian Shepherds.  

What a dog Babe was and what a legacy she created.  Sharon's kennel has grown and grown.  She is very selective in her breeding program and about placing puppies in homes to suit--pet, show conformation, herding competition, agility trials, etc. Sharon's have excelled in every area.

Visit Sharon's Cobblestone Australian Shepherds at:

Cobblestone Australian Shepherds 

Recent Litter Aussies

My sister Sharon has raised high quality Australian Shepherd dogs since 1971 I believe.  She is plans litters and is very selective on which dogs she breeds and where they are placed--show homes-conformation or herding, companion pet, working dog on a farm.  Cobble Stone Kennel raises some of the very best Aussies.

Great niece Bella

me

Australian Shepherds

Tanner and I overnight in Nashville for the Predators/LA Kings game

We're off!

Guess who forget tooth
paste and brush?

Lunch at Wendy's on way to Nashville.

We arrived in Nashville around 3 and decided to check in a hotel at the Mt Juliet exit.  We checked into one and went to the room.  NO TV.  Tanner must have TV!  Me to!  We'd have several hours in the room and Tanner loves TV.  So I got our money back and we went to a nicer hotel which had TV

We picked up some McDonalds after the game.  Tanner wasted
no time turning that TV on!!

GAME TIME!!!!

Captain Shea Weber. Tanner's fav.

Enjoying the game!!!  So much!

Penalty Box-We were right behind!

                                        Heading home!

I can take NO more fast food......

Frosty ugh NO more!

Never fails.  He's out.

Love trips with my nephew Tanner......

Chris's Family Thanksgiving 2014

Nana feeding her grandson

Good ole dangerous game of "Spoons".

Only a few bloody scratches this time. 

No broken tables or chairs!

Torture game.  Who can outlast the other.

You have to hold on while being shocked. 

First person to let go loses.

YUM time!

Torture game.  Who can outlast the other.

You have to hold on while being shocked. 

First person to let go loses.

Torture game.  Who can outlast the other.

You have to hold on while being shocked. 

First person to let go loses.

Thanksgiving 2014 It used to be rolly-bat......................

Thanksgiving 2014 at my sisters Sharon's house.  We had a lot of fun catching up. And enjoyed a delicious breakfast for supper.

My sister Sharon and her two grandkids (my great nieces) 

Chelsea and Bella

My great niece Mallie Belle

Mallie and Pa

My nephew Jamey. Yes. He is older than me.

Ten months.  When we were kids we fought like brother and sister!

Jamey would tell me the aunt was supposed to mind the nephew.

My two sisters.  Sharon and Lynette.  "Nan" is

holding her grand-baby Mallie Belle.

Greg taught Chris and Jennifer his

secret award winning homemade 

biscuit recipe.

My great nephew Jack. Love the hair!

Jack playing with my sister Sharon's aussie pups.

Jamey and my niece Jessie cleaning.   I was too busy playing

hide and seek with the kids to help clean.  hahaha

"Nan" and Mallie Belle

Talking biscuits

Me and Christopher

Mallie Belle watching herself dance.

I love, love, love spending time with my family.  But Sunday afternoon dinners and holidays at our house with two tables full of family members dramatically changed after my mom died in 1990.  Or at least for me.  But I think the others as well.  Up until that time when the 12 or so of us who would have weekend or Sunday dinners and during holidays NEVER stayed in the house.  Everyone was always outside playing volleyball, rolly-bat, softball, badminton, sitting on the porch swing and sitting in chairs in yard while chatting.  And during the chaos of fun the kids would be running in and out of the house, hearing as they went the scream from some adult: "don't slam the screen door!!!"  Real screen doors, the real ones?  There is NO way to keep them from slamming.  I've tried.  Well. Tried a little....

Where did those times disappear too?  Why? I can sit around and yearn for those years.  I yearn for my momma.  She held the family to the traditions.

Now we get together much less often.  We have dinner on a holiday.  Sit and talk and I play with the kids a little.  We don't go outside.  It's depressing to me-looking back at the memories of the loving fun from childhood and compare it to what we do today.  Why doesn't anyone want to play roll-bat anymore.....