I'm thankful for...
• The sound of an Oldsmobile Cutless Supreme going down a gravel road
• Indiana Route 46 between Spencer and Nashville
• Tick Ridge
• Raccoon Lake
• Trail 3 at Turkey Run
• The Purdue Pete grain bin on Indiana 55
• The T where the Fountain County road that extends off IN 55 meets IN 341
• The view of Purdue from McCormick Road
• The pipe organ at First Baptist Church Pasadena
• Mom’s apple pie
• The Notre Dame Victory March, On Wisconsin, and most of all, Hail Purdue!
• The Engineering Fountain at Purdue (especially on a hot summer night)
• The Loeb Fountain at Purdue
• Nana’s French Toast
• Rosedale
• The Firemen’s Breakfast
• Green Lake, Wisconsin
• Hymnals
• Learning foreign languages
• Runs at the Rose Bowl
• North 7th street in Terre Haute
• The Harry Evans Bridge
• Living nativities
• Freshly stoked wood-burning stoves on a frigid winter morning
• Gas fireplaces that don’t have to be stoked
• Moonlit snow crunching beneath my feet
• Trips to In-n-Out with my roommates
• Talks with Dad after everyone else has gone to bed
• Drinking instant iced tea (sweetened with Equal) on the porch with Mama Wylma
• Direct flights on Northwest Airlines from LAX to IND
• The Fuller Faculty
• American Baptists
• Purdue Bones
• The West Road
• Unexpected calls from Robin
• Betsy’s “quirkiness”
• Farm Bureau milk shakes
• Whole-hog sausage sandwiches
• Cruellers
• Midnight Mass
• Easter Sunrise services
• Parliamentary Procedure
• Putting up Christmas lights with Birch
• Betsy’s willingness to get stuck behind the Christmas tree when we put lights on
• Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians (and all those other Christmas records)
• Dailey Chapel VBS
• The flagpole Pa Wayne made for me
• All my teachers
• The ISU homecoming parade
• Southmont Junior High School
• Window air conditioners
• Robin and Betsy calling me George
• Endless talking with Ellen at the Red Fence
• Humanities with Mr. Lunsford
• Gilly’s Ice Cream
• Deep theological discussions
• Hearing Mom play “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” on the piano
• The Middle Room
• College football Saturdays
• March Madness
• Sweet Tea
• Grammar
• The Today Show
• Early morning prayer with a friend
• Surprise snowfalls
• So very much more…
• Indiana Route 46 between Spencer and Nashville
• Tick Ridge
• Raccoon Lake
• Trail 3 at Turkey Run
• The Purdue Pete grain bin on Indiana 55
• The T where the Fountain County road that extends off IN 55 meets IN 341
• The view of Purdue from McCormick Road
• The pipe organ at First Baptist Church Pasadena
• Mom’s apple pie
• The Notre Dame Victory March, On Wisconsin, and most of all, Hail Purdue!
• The Engineering Fountain at Purdue (especially on a hot summer night)
• The Loeb Fountain at Purdue
• Nana’s French Toast
• Rosedale
• The Firemen’s Breakfast
• Green Lake, Wisconsin
• Hymnals
• Learning foreign languages
• Runs at the Rose Bowl
• North 7th street in Terre Haute
• The Harry Evans Bridge
• Living nativities
• Freshly stoked wood-burning stoves on a frigid winter morning
• Gas fireplaces that don’t have to be stoked
• Moonlit snow crunching beneath my feet
• Trips to In-n-Out with my roommates
• Talks with Dad after everyone else has gone to bed
• Drinking instant iced tea (sweetened with Equal) on the porch with Mama Wylma
• Direct flights on Northwest Airlines from LAX to IND
• The Fuller Faculty
• American Baptists
• Purdue Bones
• The West Road
• Unexpected calls from Robin
• Betsy’s “quirkiness”
• Farm Bureau milk shakes
• Whole-hog sausage sandwiches
• Cruellers
• Midnight Mass
• Easter Sunrise services
• Parliamentary Procedure
• Putting up Christmas lights with Birch
• Betsy’s willingness to get stuck behind the Christmas tree when we put lights on
• Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians (and all those other Christmas records)
• Dailey Chapel VBS
• The flagpole Pa Wayne made for me
• All my teachers
• The ISU homecoming parade
• Southmont Junior High School
• Window air conditioners
• Robin and Betsy calling me George
• Endless talking with Ellen at the Red Fence
• Humanities with Mr. Lunsford
• Gilly’s Ice Cream
• Deep theological discussions
• Hearing Mom play “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” on the piano
• The Middle Room
• College football Saturdays
• March Madness
• Sweet Tea
• Grammar
• The Today Show
• Early morning prayer with a friend
• Surprise snowfalls
• So very much more…
posted by R. T. Bailey at 1:05 AM
1 Comments:
I hesitate on wheather or not to make sure mom gets this because it made me cry. She has somehow lost/ forgot the name of your blog.
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