a life blessed

I love long drives on country roads; one of the benefits of baseball games away.  This showed up on my Timehop today, taken about 4 years ago. This view was on my way to Union City and is always a view I look forward to, especially at certain times in the evening when the sun cast its rays off the tops of the silos making them glisten like diamonds in the sky.  Country roads...Long drives...Wind blowing through the open windows...Music up loud...It's the simple things that can have the greatest impact.  These snapshots were taken on the way to Troy, TN this year.  Not the greatest in the world, but it's the best I could do while driving!  My grandmother & granddad, Mr.& Mrs. Kirk Morror & Oleta Clementine Frazier, had a weeping willow in their front yard. My mom & dad, Mr. & Mrs. Shirl Morror & Shirley Rose Lewis Frazier. also had one in the back yard in my youth.  Lightening struck & killed it at some point. ...

Well, the 'Raptor' finally shut down on us for good. Will cost more to fix it than it's worth.  For a true antique, and our having it 20 out of its 27 years, it has served us BEYOND very well.  I was expecting my oldest when we got it, and he is now 20 years old and soon to be 21! The boys are glad to see it go, even though this is the only vehicle they've ever known their dad to drive. And for that fact alone, I get a little teary eyed to see it go. I remember the boys so excited to wash it for Todd (when they were knee high to a grasshopper!)  I remember their s weet faces as they looked out of the back window, sitting on those little bench seats, smiling with their big grins, and waving goodbye as their dad took them to preschool and then on to 'big' school.  That turned into the dreaded look of doom on their faces knowing they would have to squish those long legs into that little truck and under all the book bags, satchels and Todd's baseb...