Another generation begins!

[NC Dayzz]

Hi guys.

Love the site! Long time browser here! I very much enjoy time spent here reading and am glad to see that the art of alcohol shines on!
I was raised by my grandparents on a small farm on the Pamlico Sound in Eastern North Carolina. We fished, raised tobacco and corn, and made all corn likker. We were poor and it was a hard life. We traded likker with the locals for things we needed like meat, garden vegetables, etc. and almost always had a mash going. Pa taught me to taste, touch, feel, smell and I was a good still hand by my early teens. He also taught me that table sugar was sacrilege, that white likker was for trading, and that we drink out of the barrels stored in
the smokehouse! Hence a lifelong love for Bourbon! (no pun intended for those who love sugar spirits, just the way I was raised)

Fast forward 30+ years. My grandson and i went down to the farm this weekend which is his first time there. (8 years old) We dropped a burlap sack of corn in the shallow water at the dock this morning and went fishing. We caught a few fish, threw the wet sack of corn in the saw dust pile in the corner of the woodshed and spent the rest of the day cleaning on a couple of barrels and pa's old still! Kiddo wouldn't quit til he got finished and fell asleep on the porch swing! I just got him in the bed! Another generation begins!!

Sorry for the ramble guys but this seemed like the only place i could tell it. Happy shining!!!

[Samohon]

Welcome to the forum NC Dayzz...

Nice story. Have fun here...

[F6Hawk]

Awesome tale, and welcome to HD!! Can't wait to hear of your experiences with all-corn.

[JeremyC]

We need more parents and grandparents passing down their history like you are doing. Not just with this hobby, but life itself. There is a ton of useful information about life in the generations that grew up before us. We should take advantage of that, and not let it slip by.

[texashine]

Another lucky Grandchild, fortunate to be able to learn the difference between earning your needs and being handed your wants. That's what you are teaching. Not how to make shine.

[ga flatwoods]

You weren't just fishin' either! I hope you are able to show him the farm as being a slower yet harder time when men were men and a handshake meant more than a piece of paper with a man's mark on it. A week or so there with no fast food, cell phone forFB or twit, and oh yes, cut off the ac! Teach him of old when neighbor also knew and depended upon one another in times of need. Also what a hard day's work really is and what is meant in Sunday being an intended day of worthy worship and rest. Continue to endow in him the importance of time spent with family and the heritage from which he comes and expected to carry forward. Do these if you can-todays children have no idea of such things andmost will resist the effort to learn. My best wishes for a grandson raised to know what a "Simple kinda man" really is.
Welcome and enjoy the site with you new member status. I took look forward to your dusting off of the old man's recipes and repeating to your satisfaction and sharing.
GA Flatwoods

[NC Dayzz]

Welcome to the forum NC Dayzz...

Nice story. Have fun here...

Thanks Samohon! I'm learnin lots of new things here!

[NC Dayzz]

Awesome tale, and welcome to HD!! Can't wait to hear of your experiences with all-corn.

Thanks Hawk! When they put a "dumbest things you ever done" thread up, i'll tell yall some chit!

[NC Dayzz]

We need more parents and grandparents passing down their history like you are doing. Not just with this hobby, but life itself. There is a ton of useful information about life in the generations that grew up before us. We should take advantage of that, and not let it slip by.

Of all the things I've done in life, being a parent is by far the hardest. Grandchildren however seem much easier!

[NC Dayzz]

Another lucky Grandchild, fortunate to be able to learn the difference between earning your needs and being handed your wants. That's what you are teaching. Not how to make shine.

I'm workin on him!!

[NC Dayzz]

You weren't just fishin' either! I hope you are able to show him the farm as being a slower yet harder time when men were men and a handshake meant more than a piece of paper with a man's mark on it. A week or so there with no fast food, cell phone forFB or twit, and oh yes, cut off the ac! Teach him of old when neighbor also knew and depended upon one another in times of need. Also what a hard day's work really is and what is meant in Sunday being an intended day of worthy worship and rest. Continue to endow in him the importance of time spent with family and the heritage from which he comes and expected to carry forward. Do these if you can-todays children have no idea of such things andmost will resist the effort to learn. My best wishes for a grandson raised to know what a "Simple kinda man" really is.
Welcome and enjoy the site with you new member status. I took look forward to your dusting off of the old man's recipes and repeating to your satisfaction and sharing.
GA Flatwoods

The hardest times and fondest memories of my life are all at the old farm. No doubt they were different times. Hoping to teach kiddo that life is better if you live it! Loved your "who I am" post. Says lots about you!

[Truckinbutch]

Been doin the same mentoring with a grandson that is 12 . He started killin his own deer and other game at 8 . Got a wild hog with a 1 shot bow kill 2 months back . One hell of a fisherman ,too . He has been enthralled with that dickhead tv program .to the point of wanting to try it . His Momma is willing to help me operate but doesn't want him directly involved in stillin . I have been showing him my progress and explaining every step without having him present when a fire is lit . I know that kid . If he can't be part of what's goin on he will sneak off and try to do it on his own . Least I can do is explain the safe way and steer him away from the tv program .