Thursday, 03 May 2007

• "There are places I remember all my life..."

   I can't imagine making my life back there, but I can't imagine making my life without it.  Things I miss about Home:

  front porches
  side porches
  back porches
  porch swings
  that truck cruising town with the dukes of hazzard horn
  cruising main street (in wu or hillsboro!)
  udf
  covered bridges
  foot bridges over miniscule creeks
  brush creek
  beasley fork creek
  buzzard's roost
  red rock
  cloud watching
  hot summer rain
  nickel cokes from the soda fountain at blake's
  strawberry coke
  grippo's bbq chips
  roastbeef specials (from the 125 grill)
  $12 haircuts
  dollar general
  family dollar
  dollar town
  dairy bars
  demolition derbies
  the appo
  listening to the police scanner to see if i recognize anyone
  the people's defender (for laughs only)
  el habanero (mexican food, ac style)
  going to walmart when i'm bored and want to run into old friends
  bonfires
  hay rides
  parties in barns (or barn-like tecumseh buildings)
  fields of tobacco
  hay rolls
  amish buggies
  giovanni's pizza
  frisch's big boy
  lunch from the olde wayside inn on sundays (if you get there before all the churches let out)
  ^scalloped chicken
  baked steak from prather's
  long walks on walnut street
  long walks by the old cemetery
  long walks to the fairgrounds
  the old playground
  the old gym
  the fair
  elephant ears, funnel cakes, and shaved ice
  falling leaves
  snow
  homegrown tomatoes--red and yellow ones
  waving to just about anyone when you meet them on the road
  hills of cedars and redbuds
  lewis mountain
  sassafras tea
  woodland wildflowers
  churchladies who sing like this:
  
  hunting for arrowheads
  hunting for fossils
  hunting for mushrooms
  hunting for ginger
  getting out of school on the first day of deer season (gun season)
  biscuits & gravy
  grandma's flip coffee
  ridges (pumpkin, vaughn's, tater, gift, etc)
  the bookmobile

  to be continued...

  Home (in other people's pics).

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