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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
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... » COMMENTS
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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... »
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... »
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... »
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... » 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... »
Cookin', Critters and Chillun
The Dish Fairy goes on strike
The Dish Fairy is on strike. Usually the Dish Fairy comes to our house at about 5:30 or 6 a.m. when she unloads and puts away the clean dishes from the dishwasher, and puts in the dirty ones. First let me say that although my sweet husband does a number of chores around the... »
Cookin', Critters and Chillun 
I got a call from Paula Deen the other day. Honest. And she didn’t start off the conversation with “Hey, y’all.” She did at her “Paula Deen Live” show at the Salem Civic Center Oct. 2, though. If she hadn’t, people would have been disappointed. Paula is just a good ol’ gal from South... »
Hey, y’all, it’s Paula Deen
I got a call from Paula Deen the other day. Honest. And she didn’t start off the conversation with “Hey, y’all.” She did at her “Paula Deen Live” show at the Salem Civic Center Oct. 2, though. If she hadn’t, people would have been disappointed. Paula is just a good ol’ gal from South... » COMMENTS
Donna, you'll look terrific as a silver-haired beauty. As far as catfish are concerned, producers grow them too big around ...
Dear Meg:
I love this blog and all you South Georgia girls. I'm letting my hair turn silver now and ...
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A tale of two vans
It all started with a simple plan: borrow a van to get my pet portrait paintings and 6-foot display screens to and from Olde Salem Days on Saturday. I should preface this with the explanation that two weeks ago my trusty 2000 Durango blew a gasket. “Blowing a gasket” was one of my Daddy’s... »COMMENTS
Gosh darn! As I read this tale of woe, I expected you to say the solenoid (however it's ...
The lock on the passenger door on our Chevy Suburban used to get stuck and would at unexpected times swing ...
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There must be an invisible sign flashing over our house this summer. It reads, “Eat here!” The sign is visible only to the wild things who live in the woods: squirrels, field mice, bear and the latest, raccoons. I wish I still thought raccoons were cute little furry critters with smiling mouths and black... »
Raccoons in the chicken yard!
There must be an invisible sign flashing over our house this summer. It reads, “Eat here!” The sign is visible only to the wild things who live in the woods: squirrels, field mice, bear and the latest, raccoons. I wish I still thought raccoons were cute little furry critters with smiling mouths and black... » COMMENTS
Most difficult to outsmart a "4-legged thief," but looks like she did.
Very interesting piece. Imaginative and very creative.
Sweet memories of a beautiful lady and even more beautiful baby. Deep down inside, most all of us ...
1 Comment »Beverly Palmer January 10, 2012