Puttin' By

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about winter foods. On New Year’s we ate hog jowl and black-eyed peas. Then a bunch of readers mentioned you always eat cabbage too, so last week we talked about that delicious vegetable. Well those articles got me to thinking about all the work mountain folks usually do in the summertime to prepare for the cold winter months when nothing much is growing. Really, I have realized anew that “an idle soul shall suffer hunger” (Proverbs 19:15b).

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