Waco wisdom!

my 92 year old friend, harveylee, mentioned in a previous installment has so many quirky/unusual sayings which i just love.
here is this weeks: busy as a bee in a bucket of tar
hmmmmm...makes fer a potent visual!

and she loaned me a book called: settler sayings.
a bunch of sayings that have made their way into our common vanacular which have their roots in situations from everyday life. i'll just give you one from the book.

SPUDS
the settlers planted all kinds of vegetables. about one hundred years ago, however, people thought potatoes were unhealthy. to discourage people from eating potatoes, a health-conscious group started the Society for the Prevention of Unwholesome Diets. the initials of the groups name formed the word "spud." today many people refer to potatoes as spuds.

learn sumthin' new? me too!
don't worry, i'll share some more settler sayin's before the week is out!

and finally, one more harveylee tidbit. we were talkin' about the heat...how as a child she would pick cotton in the dead heat of a texas summer and think nothing of it. we were comparing that to current time and how little heat she can tolerate these days...feels like she could get heat stroke pretty easy. and she said she didn't even know what heat stroke was when she was little but if she had, why she's sure she woulda have suffered a number of spells to get herself outta pickin' cotton!