Interviewer: uh if something happened um this is this is twenty nine 166: {NS} yep tomorrow's thursday last day Interviewer: Alright and something happened on this day last year you'd say well that happened exactly 166: same day Interviewer: okay uh to say last year you'd say it happened exactly 166: last year Interviewer: uh okay a year ago 166: uh-huh Interviewer: #1 you ever say that # 166: #2 yeah # Interviewer: #1 okay # 166: #2 course I say that # Interviewer: you look up in the sky uh the sky you might say I don't like the looks of those 166: stars Interviewer: okay and if its during the day and it looks like it might 166: #1 the clouds # Interviewer: #2 rain # Those 166: clouds Interviewer: okay but the sun is shining and there are no clouds you might say 166: #1 it a very beau- # Interviewer: #2 it's a # 166: beautiful day Interviewer: okay if its just the opposite of a pretty day how would you describe it's really 166: #1 its a bad day # Interviewer: #2 a # okay any other way you say or saying of 166: rainy day Interviewer: okay if uh its been lighter and then the clouds come and you expect rain you might say the weather is 166: changing Interviewer: okay and if it's been cloudy 166: it's always it's been cloudy this morning it's been kinda kinda cloudy all the morning Interviewer: #1 okay well you # 166: #2 can't focus # Interviewer: reckon the weathers gonna 166: rain Interviewer: okay the weather's gonna go stop looking cloudy you reckon it's gonna how would you say or hope it's gonna get pretty you think it's going to 166: clear up Interviewer: okay {NS} if it had been uh uh a real heavy rain how would you describe that to somebody it just 166: #1 its just been pouring # Interviewer: #2 like it's been pouring # 166: or poured down either one Interviewer: you ever heard them called anything like a gullywasher 166: yes they's gullywashers Interviewer: yeah 166: cause I I rarely call um gullywashers Interviewer: #1 okay have you ever heard # 166: #2 when it rains you know # Interviewer: #1 # 166: #2 # washes gullies in the hill Interviewer: yeah and uh would you say a cloud burst a regular cloud burst 166: cloud burst Interviewer: um {NS} what about a storm that had thunder and lightning in it 166: that was bad weather Interviewer: okay um what kind of a storm was it you'd say that was a regular 166: storm Interviewer: okay uh would you say a thunder storm or an electrical storm 166: electrical sometimes it's bad kinda lightning Interviewer: okay and if there was a lot of wind you might say the wind was 166: #1 sure blew # Interviewer: #2 very # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # uh the wind what 166: blew Interviewer: okay and yesterday it the wind {NS} 166: didn't blow Interviewer: okay uh and then you might say that wind was very bad but it has even harder in the past it has 166: #1 has been harder # Interviewer: #2 okay its has # blown or blown 166: blowed Interviewer: blowed hard 166: okay Interviewer: and um if the wind is coming from that direction you'd say well the wind is 166: coming from the west Interviewer: and if it's coming that direction you'd say the wind is 166: coming from the north Interviewer: okay um and a wind halfway between south and west you'd call a s- 166: south south west Interviewer: okay is southwest where you 166: {X} Interviewer: okay 166: they're always we'll have a clash that's gonna come from southwest Interviewer: uh-huh #1 and what about # 166: #2 tornadoes # Interviewer: ma'am 166: tornadoes #1 from the south in there # Interviewer: #2 mm-hmm from the south # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # what about if it's halfway between the east and the north 166: well that's just regular weather Interviewer: okay and uh what would you call a wind that's blowing in from the west in the north its a 166: contain cold Interviewer: okay 166: if it's changed north its changed cold Interviewer: you say northwest wind or 166: #1 northwest # Interviewer: #2 northwestern # okay 166: northwest Interviewer: okay and uh if it's raining but not very hard just a few fine drops you'd say it's 166: dropping they been dropping Interviewer: #1 okay # 166: #2 the rain # Interviewer: it's just a steady 166: what Interviewer: just a steady 166: steady rain Interviewer: steady rain what about a drizzle 166: wha- well it is drizzle Interviewer: yeah uh sprinkle #1 you ever say # 166: #2 sprinkling its sprinkling rain # Interviewer: okay uh if it's not really raining but it's wet out it's just 166: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # 166: {NW} {D: little norse} Interviewer: okay and if it's hard to see it's not raining but it's hard to see 166: #1 mm fog # Interviewer: #2 you know if you might # 166: mist Interviewer: okay um uh fog 166: yeah fog Interviewer: okay uh and if its if it s uh the fog is so bad you can't see through it you say oh it is very 166: bad Interviewer: uh 166: #1 dan used to driving in it too # Interviewer: #2 uh-huh # {NS} uh if you go up in the mountains you might say well if you get up on top of it won't be so 166: bad Interviewer: or 166: won't be so bad Interviewer: okay or fog 166: huh Interviewer: #1 huh yes i think so # 166: #2 {X} # I was up on the mountains Interviewer: mm yeah 166: went up and down and down and around they said let's do that Interviewer: okay and if you don't have rain for weeks and weeks and weeks what do you call it you'd say we are having a 166: we sure need a rain Interviewer: uh-huh and what do you call that 166: the crops Interviewer: what do you call that time when there's no rain when you say that's a bad 166: season Interviewer: okay uh dry spell 166: dry spell Interviewer: drought drought 166: drought or drought maybe either one'd be Interviewer: how you say it 166: drought Interviewer: okay if the wind has been very gentle and then it's gradually getting stronger you'd say it's doing what it's 166: blowing Interviewer: its would you say it's picking up or breezing up or rising winds rising 166: winds rising Interviewer: okay and um if it's just the opposite and the wind has been blowing real hard but now it's not so bad 166: going up Interviewer: okay the wind is 166: swelling up Interviewer: okay and um all the morning in the fall when you first go outdoors its cold but it's not really disagree able its the kind of weather you might just enjoy being out in and you'd say well this morning is rather 166: cool Interviewer: okay uh any other ways of saying that air-ish or 166: #1 air-ish it be air-ish uh-huh # Interviewer: #2 brisk okay # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 {NS} # um it was cold enough to kill the tomatoes {NS} that your phone {NS} 166: see just a minute {X} Interviewer: here let's sit 166: took a blood pressure tablet before though right after breakfast just before so maybe I could hold Interviewer: {NW} 166: so you're nearly through Interviewer: yes ma'am um just a couple of other things um if you say it's cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you might say last night we had a 166: #1 banes # Interviewer: #2 banes # 166: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # okay or uh it was not really a hard freeze we had a lite 166: lighter Interviewer: frost say frost 166: yeah had a lot of frost frost is what killed them Interviewer: uh-huh and if it was so cold last night that the water in the lake got hard you would say well last night the lake 166: #1 froze over # Interviewer: #2 or yet # huh 166: lake froze over Interviewer: okay and you might say if it gets much colder tonight you might the lake might 166: better get out of froze in Interviewer: right because they might 166: freeze Interviewer: okay {NS} and uh if you leave one out you think well maybe they'll be alright but the next morning you go out you already 166: froze Interviewer: okay and uh how uh how tall would you say this room is mrs{B} this room is about 166: I'm telling you the truth I don't know it's high Interviewer: yeah 166: I guess ninety inches these in here Interviewer: the drapes 166: red drapes Interviewer: uh-huh 166: {X} Interviewer: yeah well you might say this room is about nine what 166: nine feet foot Interviewer: okay how'd you say it 166: nine foot Interviewer: okay and um I need to ask you a couple of things that I didn't get on here do you tell me how much your mother went to school is it {B} 166: she didn't go very much cause she was involved in that war she was gone during the war Interviewer: and your father 166: my father my mother #1 was you talking about my mother # Interviewer: #2 yes ma'am # 166: she was in that first war ever had years years ago mm-hmm {NS} right now my pa was in the war Interviewer: is that right 166: and my grandfather got wounded in the war one of his legs was shot off both my granddaddies got hurt one of his legs was shot off the other was wounded somewhere but my husband never did have to go but he was fixing to have to go when it closed down cheering and everything Interviewer: world war one 166: mm-hmm he didn't he got out of there cause that when he was twenty-one years old just sitting in college Interviewer: sure but your father and both of your grandfathers were men in the war between the states 166: same states both of um Interviewer: well then uh 166: I never did see none of um but they was in both of um Interviewer: and uh {NS} 166: so mama was born right after he left for the service I think when um she was born he didn't see his child till he got back home and he said they say that then when they come from over there they'd have to throw the coals in the woods before they let um could come to the house and lie the stuff they had with um and now he was at grandma kathy's post in the woods dressed and such and everything he had on then had to get him out of his head Interviewer: sure that sounds scary well um now you uh you told me that uh your um that your father was a farmer and he had a meat market didn't he 166: yeah he had a meat market in leslie Interviewer: mm-hmm 166: he died when I was twelve years old so I tried to run the thing but I couldn't do the thing you had to cut the meat yourself I couldn't do it but the store next to me would come in and cut it Interviewer: and uh 166: I couldn't do it cause I was too young I couldn't do it and fish and things so when we move out in the country they had crocodile Interviewer: and uh had he uh uh grown up out near leslie too 166: no he was up uh up out of there that he was raised up there Interviewer: right 166: #1 sly fountain {D} # Interviewer: #2 do you have any family # do you have any family down by doraville or is he having his family up there now 166: most of that family has moved out but yeah I seen um but I was small I don't remember none of um cause they moved out and the place is all but walders is up there but scandinavia we don't know cause of first cousins so left it with lester then cause we had to use mules and buckets didn't visit much Interviewer: sure okay and uh but both of your parents are could read and write 166: yeah #1 mm-hmm # Interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # and uh 166: now my husbands parents they could never uh do any like that neither one never did go to school a day {NS} cheapest thing I saw just as good as anybody saw never went to school Interviewer: mm-hmm alright and um oh now here's one I didn't get if your talking about a mountain a place that's up real high what would be the opposite of that a low place would be a it's up in the 166: #1 gully # Interviewer: #2 mountain # and down in the 166: do you call it gullies Interviewer: okay and what about a va- 166: a what Interviewer: valley 166: what Interviewer: valley 166: valley well valley will do Interviewer: okay and uh if uh if somebody asks you if you know how to drive a car then I'd say 166: I say no cause I don't Interviewer: {NW} and uh 166: be lying Interviewer: does your daughter 166: oh yeah all my daughters and sons too Interviewer: do what now 166: all my daughters drive cars my oldest daughter died she drank before she learned to drive called to just come in good Interviewer: and you might say well or I I had to go to the doctor and my daughter dro- me down there how'd you say 166: drove Interviewer: okay and uh {NS} alright uh