3/5/2023 0 Comments Negative nancy quotes![]() ![]() I don’t know what got into Lois, she’d say, but there she was, dressed to the nines at the church picnic, causing all sorts of hubbabaloo. Grandma loved the phrase dressed to the nines. Mercury was used in the manufacture of felt hats and hatters, or milliners, often ended up suffering from excessive exposure to it. ![]() Of course, what mad as a hatter actually refers to is the effects of mercury poisoning, one of which is insanity. I was a big fan of Alice in Wonderland, though, so I thought it must have something to do with the goofy men you might meet in the forest and have tea with. Nine year old me had absolutely no idea what a hatter was. They were, as far as I was concerned (at least back then) far better than any that came from my Mother. I knew she’d once been Amish, or so the story went but, though she was full of amusing anecdotes and always quick with some pearl of wisdom to light heartedly scold my brothers and I, that was one story she never would fully tell. Grandma was a short, sturdy woman, jolly even. My brothers and I loved to visit as summer days at Grandma’s always meant playing in the hayloft and chasing after the barn cats who lurked around the milk room until someone put out a pan of milk for them. My Grandparents owned and lived on a working dairy farm outside of Wooster, Ohio. ![]() 19th Century Recipes for a Hearty Breakfast - July 14, 2017.17 Old-Timey Sayings We Still Love to Use Today - September 8, 2020.How to Heat Your House with a Wood-burning Stove - December 20, 2021. ![]()
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