Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Thursday Thirteen

In order to make up for my very negative 13 last week, I'll offer the flip side of the coin:

Thirteen things I like about where I live:

1. The changing seasons


2. Pasture for my horses


3. The Missouri River


4. Lots of back roads and fields where I can ride my horse in peace and quiet.


5. The alfalfa field, which provides hay for my horses and calf


6. My cabin in the woods


7. Hearing trains go by



8. The history of this area (Santa Fe Trail, Lewis and Clark, Civil War, Harry Truman, etc.)


9. Branson is only a three-hour motorcycle ride away


10. You can get to Colorado from here in one day

11. Wildlife: Although coyotes and foxes will kill any poultry they can get hold of, there’s something magnificent and free about them. I like seeing deer, even though they cause wrecks. Oh, and a flock of turkeys in the pasture. I especially like to see vultures floating above my cabin. (But I don't want to see them too close-up.)


12. “The point”. It’s the highest part of our 40-plus acres, and you can see far across the Missouri River from there.

13. Memories. We moved here when my children were six and eight years old. Although memories reside in the mind more than in a physical place, I do have a certain grudging affection for this old house because it’s where I raised my kids. Recollections of graduations, grandbabies, pets, and holidays are in every dusty corner.

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27 comments:

  1. Hi Donna -- Thanks for the visit, my WW is at JIM'S LITTLE PHOTO PLACE,
    http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/
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  2. Great photos - I could live there, too!
    Thanks for visiting!

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  3. Donna, those are wonderful photos and wonderful thoughts about where you live. I may list mine sometime I think it's good to take time and think about what we have and how blessed we are.

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  4. That looks like a very beautiful place to live, to me! I was browsing through your blog, and I really like it. I will visit again later!

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  5. Anonymous8:48 AM

    Great shots!

    >>10. You can get to Colorado from here in one day<<

    Waving at you from Colorado :)

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  6. Anonymous9:20 AM

    Ive been trying to comment since early morning.

    Blogger is being bad.

    you have a wonderful home!

    I love how your words flowed along with your photos.

    I am a huge fan of Blue, he rocks.

    Barngoddess
    http://ramblingsfromthereservation.wordpress.com/

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  7. What a beautiful place you live in!

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  8. The pictures are beautiful. I'd love to live in such a place. Thanks for visiting my TT.

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  9. Anonymous12:57 PM

    Lovely photos!

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  10. What beautiful land. You must just LOVE living there.

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  11. Those are lovely places to sight see. Thanks for sharing!

    Thanks for stopping by my blog. Have a Happy T 13!

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  12. Oh it's so beautiful there! I love it! thank you for visiting my TT as well.
    Stacie

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  13. Great pictures!

    Thanks for visiting my blog. :-)

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  14. Wow... loved the red rock! Great shot.

    Thanks for the visit!
    ~S

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  15. you take wonderful picture. I wish I could crawl into one of them and take a stroll without my white cane. Looks like I could walk for an hour in a straight line without bumping into a thing--safer than our sidewalks with power pole sprouting out of their middles.

    thanx for visiting my photo walk to the library and the 13 things I'm NOT going to miss about my weekly walk to the libray now that it is closed indefinitely.

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  16. Thanks for visiting me. For me becoming a vegetarian is a journey like other journeys, there are some bumpy paths along the way.
    I love your photos. I thought one day I would relocate to the serenity of the country. I'm still comtemplating. Maybe one day.

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  17. It looks so warm there. We're getting snow today.

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  18. Sounds like a great place to live!

    Happy TT!

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  19. Anonymous1:25 AM

    I love your pictures, especially the tractors. My husband's from South Dakota, and his father recently sold the family farm - we went up to help prep for the sale, and all I wanted to do was take pictures of tractors.

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  20. there's good and bad about every place, I guess. :) But I'd love to have a horse and ride each day!

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  21. What a beautiful place you live...definitely makes up for the other :-) On another note, I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your pics from the back of your horse. To see something from between his ears or the kids coming up to pet him, was spectacular. Thank you for sharing.

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  22. Great pics! Thanks for sharing.

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  23. Thanks for visiting my TT (which was pretty pathetic this week, I admit). You have some really flat land there; it is quite lovely.

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  24. WOW! Great place you got here :)

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  25. Now, this list makes me happy. What beautiful property and horses you have. Awesome.

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  26. Thank you so much for sharing your spot in the world. I really enjoyed the picture of the horses legs great perspective.

    You reminded me of the awesome beauty of this land.

    Cheers

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