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Cookin', Critters and Chillun
A blog about family, food and friends – wild creatures included – from experiences and random thoughts by award-winning community newspaper editor and writer Meg Hibbert, whose favorite question is “What have you done for fun lately?”
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
My husband is a North Georgia boy. He grew up next to Emory University in Atlanta and didn’t have the privilege of pecan trees in his yard.
I did. My mother and daddy’s yard in South Georgia – Albany, to be exact (pronounced All-benny by those in the know) – had a couple of aging... »
Picking up pecans in Georgia
My husband is a North Georgia boy. He grew up next to Emory University in Atlanta and didn’t have the privilege of pecan trees in his yard.
I did. My mother and daddy’s yard in South Georgia – Albany, to be exact (pronounced All-benny by those in the know) – had a couple of aging... » COMMENTS
Cookin', Critters and Chillun
Around the dining room table
A fellow writer and member of The Writers Bridge recently posted a listing for a round oak pedestal dining room table she wanted to get a new home in time for Thanksgiving. I would have jumped at the opportunity except that owner Joann Melton lives in the St. Louis, Mo., area. It’s not that we... »COMMENTS
Meg, we also own an old oak, drop-leaf table that sits in the kitchen in front of an old Hoosier ...
Meg, thanks for sharing your memories of life around the dining room table, both happy and sad. Glad most ...
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
How do you console a grown child who’s had to face one of the toughest decisions of her life?
Daughter Meredith called a couple of weeks ago to tell us she had decided it was time to say goodbye to Baby Kitty.
Miss Baby had been her furry companion for more than 14 years since Mere... »
‘Baby Kitty’ was some cat
How do you console a grown child who’s had to face one of the toughest decisions of her life?
Daughter Meredith called a couple of weeks ago to tell us she had decided it was time to say goodbye to Baby Kitty.
Miss Baby had been her furry companion for more than 14 years since Mere... » COMMENTS
Thanks, Mom, for the lovely column about my baby girl. I've shared it with many people and all of ...
This was absolutely beautiful... my Belvedere will be 16 in a few months & i sometimes worry about that fateful ...
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
I remember the days B.C. – before Catawba, aka “Giant Puppy.”
On mornings like Monday when I found only a few crushed egg shells as ghosts of the 14 fresh eggs he ate – yes, more than a dozen! – I look back in my mind at the cute, little blonde teddy bear we adopted.
It... »
Challenges of life with giant puppy
I remember the days B.C. – before Catawba, aka “Giant Puppy.”
On mornings like Monday when I found only a few crushed egg shells as ghosts of the 14 fresh eggs he ate – yes, more than a dozen! – I look back in my mind at the cute, little blonde teddy bear we adopted.
It... » COMMENTS
The trick is to bring the crate in, leaving the door open. Dogs naturally "den". They feel safer in a ...
Cookin', Critters and Chillun
Saying goodbye to Mr. Baseball
It was the first time I’d ever sung “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at a funeral. And it was fitting for the crowd in Thomas Road Baptist Church to do that as they said goodbye to W. Calvin Falwell. He was the immediate past-president of the Lynchburg Baseball Corp., and widely acknowledged as the... »
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
About this time every year, hunters take to the woods secretly to look for their favorite mushrooms.
These aren’t just any mushrooms, but morels, also called miracles or more locally, “merkles.”
Morels are good eating, and those lucky enough to spot them – or to have their own hunting grounds for them – guard their locations... »
Hunting for ‘miracles’
About this time every year, hunters take to the woods secretly to look for their favorite mushrooms.
These aren’t just any mushrooms, but morels, also called miracles or more locally, “merkles.”
Morels are good eating, and those lucky enough to spot them – or to have their own hunting grounds for them – guard their locations... »
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
We lost an icon last week, when Elizabeth Taylor died.
I remember her not for her movies so much, or her diamonds or her perfume. I remember her for holding Meredith
Our daughter was 6 months old when she and I met Elizabeth Taylor. She had recently married John Warner, her sixth husband, and Warner was... »
Elizabeth Taylor without her diamonds and perfume
We lost an icon last week, when Elizabeth Taylor died.
I remember her not for her movies so much, or her diamonds or her perfume. I remember her for holding Meredith
Our daughter was 6 months old when she and I met Elizabeth Taylor. She had recently married John Warner, her sixth husband, and Warner was... » COMMENTS
Sweet memories of a beautiful lady and even more beautiful baby. Deep down inside, most all of us ...
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
It’s been 16 years since we’ve lived with a puppy.
Savannah was our last one. After she disappeared in a blowing snow on her final adventure Jan. 8 and we never located her, we began looking for a shaggy, small dog to adopt as a companion for our 12-year-old Lhasa Apso, Hairy Dawg, who is... »
Life with puppy
It’s been 16 years since we’ve lived with a puppy.
Savannah was our last one. After she disappeared in a blowing snow on her final adventure Jan. 8 and we never located her, we began looking for a shaggy, small dog to adopt as a companion for our 12-year-old Lhasa Apso, Hairy Dawg, who is... »
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
How many times will I look out the front door to see if she’s back? Or walk along the road calling her name and whistling?
On Saturday, our old shaggy dog Savannah went off on her last adventure. It was still dark out and snowing lightly when I let our gray-and-white Shitzu mix who had... »
An old dog’s last adventure
How many times will I look out the front door to see if she’s back? Or walk along the road calling her name and whistling?
On Saturday, our old shaggy dog Savannah went off on her last adventure. It was still dark out and snowing lightly when I let our gray-and-white Shitzu mix who had... » COMMENTS
Meg, So sad to say goodbye to our loyal friends. Our little old Taco wandered off in our forest ...
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
Sometime in the last year, Tina Smith left a flyer at our office that called attention to the dangers of what some kids call the “choking game” which took the life of her son, Tyler Matherly. It was filled with small type about why teenagers are willing to get a high by choking themselves to... »
Pleadings from a grieving mom
Sometime in the last year, Tina Smith left a flyer at our office that called attention to the dangers of what some kids call the “choking game” which took the life of her son, Tyler Matherly. It was filled with small type about why teenagers are willing to get a high by choking themselves to... »
It's great to see Bill working. I love pecans more than any other nut I've ever tasted. ...
1 Comment »Beverly Palmer January 10, 2012