NC A Place to Call Home: The Horse Drawn Trolley Comes to Goldsboro

Sunday, January 4, 2009

The Horse Drawn Trolley Comes to Goldsboro

For the second year we were able to take our two oldest granddaughters, Anna Marion and Emma Grace, to ride the free horse-drawn trolley, and to see the lights in downtown Goldsboro. These are some bullet thoughts and a few shots from the night!
* COLD

* A LONG WAIT IN A LONG LINE
* ONE CUP OF HOT CHOCOLATE SHARED BY ALL
* A LONG WAIT
* DID WE MENTION COLD? ( well, cold by Goldsboro standards)
* CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
* HORSES
* A WAGON
* FINALLY OUR TURN!
* A HAT FLYING OFF INTO THE STREET
* A GOOD SAMARITIAN RETURNING THE HAT VIA DRIVE BY TOSS

* A SWEET GRANDPA TELLING US THE STORY OF THE HORSES

* A MEMORY MADE

* HOME BY BEDTIME

1 comment:

Stephanie said...: What a treasured memory for my girls! I am glad to see my girls enjoy your gift of making little things a big adventure and lots of fun! Thank You!; January 8, 2009 at 9:17 PM

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Finally A Place to Call Home

This blog is one grandmother's attempt to stay relevant in the current century. I now live in a beautiful part of the south. I have an amazing front porch and the white rockers to go along with such a porch. At an advanced age we became first time home owners! Well, we don't exactly own it yet, but we have started paying for it. So because I have always been a bit of a gypsy in that I have lived soooo many places- I named the blog .. A Place to Call Home.

I have many words left to use while I am still on the planet. I think a great deal about things and really love the idea of having a forum to share some of those thoughts. So welcome to my blog... feel free to comment and come along for the ride.

Things to Do Before I Turn 95!

Become a master teacher!
Complete a PhD program
Experience the Places I've Lived Tour
Finish the search for my roots!
Get back up on a surf board at least on more time!
Go on a missions outreach (Went to the DR this summer!)
Go to C.S. Lewis's Home-The Kilns
Have no regrets!
Learn American Sign Language- more than squirrel and dead squirrel :)
Leave nothing unsaid or undone!
Return to the Evangelical School for the Deaf in Puerto Rico!
Run a 5k
Take English riding lessons -find a new stable
Tour the major National Parks
Travel the world!
Visit the Isle of Man (Don't ask)
Write a book

Quotes I Find Worth Mentioning

" I am much better at hello!" - Karen Blixen in Out of Africa
"Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."-C.S.Lewis
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."- Anne Lamott
"Life should be a little bit nuts, otherwise it is just a bunch of Thursdays strung together!"- Kevin Costner in Rumor Has It
"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."-Anne Lamott
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)
Overheard: "No, I'm not an introvert. I'm very outgoing. I just don't like you very much."
Sub heading seen recently on a blog " I link, therefore I am"