Chef - Honfleur

Alliterations and More

I woke up this morning and the first thought I had was Ding Dang!  Now this is a good old Southern expletive reintroduced via a cousin and friend.  The other one is Dilly Dally!  Fun to say!

I had an award winning painting I entitled "Lots of Pots", and am not proud of that one! 

Veering away from the obvious - there are several southern euphemisms I find descriptive - Raising Sand - didn't understand this one as a child, but I heard my Grandmother use it a lot!  She simply meant, don't create a rukus! One from recent years I find charming is Bowed Up - this one I understand fully - when you catch someone Red Handed - they get Bowed Up.  Then there is the good all around phrase Calling Out, I understand that one all too well, as I have done some Calling Out myself and it doesn't involve yodeling lessons.

In the South, when we wish to imply a future action we are preparing to execute, we say Fixin', ie: I am Fixin to go to the Store to buy the fixings for dinner/supper - so, the plural of Fixin - Fixings is a noun!  We are creative with our speech patterns and sometimes this can sound like a foreign tongue to a north of the Mason-Dixon Line transplant/visitor.

We prefer our peanuts  boiled, our pork bar-be-qued, and can make an entire meal out of butter beans and rice (no, no, these are not lima beans)!!!

Now, I am fixin' to cut off the computer for awhile.

Good Monday!