Not-Quite-Country Girl

It's been a week of nostalgia and reminiscing, so for Halloween I just had to throw this photo out there again.

photo credit Kyler Gray, Jan. 2009

Remembering the 40th anniversary of the biggest snowstorm of my lifetime...the Blizzard of '78.

Someone recently asked me to share my favorite Christmas memory.

This is the home I grew up in.

I haven't been an elementary classroom teacher for 34 years now.

But my daughter is a teacher and many of my family members and closest friends are teachers, so I wanted to share a little encouragement this morning from an email that put a smile in this former teacher's heart.

When we bought our country place in 1982, one thing I loved about it was this big, old hip-roofed barn.

I have a passion for old weathered barns.

I ran across this photo on Facebook the other day, and my mind immediately took a long, nostalgic walk down memory lane.

Anyone who grew up in my neck of the woods will recognize this icon.

The Coffee Pot was a well-known restaurant in the nearby town of Cambridge City, Indiana while I was growing up.

There is a good chance that this post falls under the "TMI" category, but I'm going to post it anyway. Perhaps it will bring a smile to your face this gloomy (at least here in central Indiana...) Monday morning...