Traditional porch design courtesy of houzz.com
We recently drove from Buford Pusser Land to Muscle Shoals Alabama and before you can sit and think where have I heard that Muscle Shoals before it's in Lynard Synard's Sweet Home Alabma....
It was like 50 miles through these totally neat little farms and landscaped country homes...after awhile it started to feel like we were in Stepford though. All of the sudden I realized ALL of the houses with porches had TWO chairs on the porch if they had a chair @ all. Once in awhile there would be a swing and two chairs or a bench and two chairs but the only times the RULE was broken was when there were a bunch of people actually pickin guitars and banjos and singing on the front porch and then another house had a computer chair on the porch and some sort of old naugahyde couch. I don't really believe they were into serious decorating @ that house.
We then drove through Florida, parts of GA and south Alabama, MS, LA, TX and NO WHERE else did I see so many homes with TWO chairs on the porch. It's weird what becomes tradition.
I have two chairs on my front steps.......BUT there is a broken chair with a flowerpot on it sitting by the wire plant stand in the flowerbed so that is ALMOST three chairs?
I was seriously wondering how rigid the customs in those hills had to be to be able to dictate the number of chairs on a porch though? Thoughts?
We recently drove from Buford Pusser Land to Muscle Shoals Alabama and before you can sit and think where have I heard that Muscle Shoals before it's in Lynard Synard's Sweet Home Alabma....
It was like 50 miles through these totally neat little farms and landscaped country homes...after awhile it started to feel like we were in Stepford though. All of the sudden I realized ALL of the houses with porches had TWO chairs on the porch if they had a chair @ all. Once in awhile there would be a swing and two chairs or a bench and two chairs but the only times the RULE was broken was when there were a bunch of people actually pickin guitars and banjos and singing on the front porch and then another house had a computer chair on the porch and some sort of old naugahyde couch. I don't really believe they were into serious decorating @ that house.
We then drove through Florida, parts of GA and south Alabama, MS, LA, TX and NO WHERE else did I see so many homes with TWO chairs on the porch. It's weird what becomes tradition.
I have two chairs on my front steps.......BUT there is a broken chair with a flowerpot on it sitting by the wire plant stand in the flowerbed so that is ALMOST three chairs?
I was seriously wondering how rigid the customs in those hills had to be to be able to dictate the number of chairs on a porch though? Thoughts?
We have two chairs on our patio but more can be added quickly if needed. Growing up there were always minimum a half dozen, if you didn't count the porch swing. Did you see any of the couches in yards along the interstates?
ReplyDeleteMuscle Shoals had a large recording studio at one time where Skynyrd and other bands hung out.
We have 8 chairs on our patio but as it's the UK we only get to use them about twice a year....
ReplyDeleteNo couches along the interstate Judy, actually all the houses
ReplyDeletewere so well kept as to be almost scary, even in the back
woods of MS? WE on the other hand had an old leather couch
sitting outside for awhile, I didn't feel hillbillyish
because it was hidden AND I couldn't lift it into pickup
by myself to take to dump and I hadn't convinced anyone
else they HAD TO NOW!!! LOL I actually have 4 or 5 chairs
outside by the back door, now that I think about it there
are 4 by the front door, one has a plant on it...
BlackLOG you should be here in the midwest...LOTS of time to
sit outside in the 90 degree heat....right before you expire of heat exhaustion that is!!! LOL