Loose Leaf Notes

Sounds really lovely and peaceful, Colleen...I'm not sure I could adjust to that, but on the other hand...there's something wonderful about knowing there are still small quiet places where people are friendly and know one another...

Just stopped by to say Hi, and see how you are doing...

Floyd is much more active than this little post shows. I wrote a piece a while ago caled "Life in the Rural Fast Lane." For the flip side of small town queit, check it out. http://www.looseleafnotes.com/notes/2005/04/life_in_the_rural_fast_lane.html

I love your photo. And I love small towns. And boy do I know the smell you are talking about in Riner (don't love that). My path home to and from college took me through that stretch of road and whhheeewwwiiee it smelled. It seems like when I drove through more recently though, the dairy cows might have been mooooved away with new houses in their place. I always wondered if the people in Riner knew it smelled or if they were too used to it to notice.

I also loved being able to say in college that I came from a county with no stop lights (Floyd's neighbor to the south). Then they spoiled my fun by adding not one, but two. I think they might even have three by now. This is sad, and no joke, but I wrecked my mother's car in one of the first stop lights I ever drove through. Green meant go, so I went. Went left right in front of another car. It took at least ten minutes before the police officer was able to explain to me what I did before I said "oooooh, now I get it, yeah, I guess that was my fault."

And don't you love it when someone in their yard waves to the passing cars?

Living in the middle of London, England, as I do, I am very jealous of small town life... Mind you, it is often said that London is a collection of small villages, but the corner shop doesn't sell sledges and the closest we get to snow is slush...*Sigh*

Very jealous...

Michele sent me today,

Minerva

That post makes me miss my hometown - where you not only know every person you see, you know their cars, their dogs, their cows, and their goats.

Hi Colleen...it sure sounds nie that town of yours..peaceful, NO TRAFFIC...people knowing one another...LOVELY!

Hi Colleen...
This place you live sure sounds nice...no traffic...everyone kind of knowing everyone else...peaceful would be the word I'm looking for....

Here from Michele this morning..

I didn't mean to leave soooo many comments Colleen...when I was here hours ago it didn't register that it had posted...OR, I just didn't see it...Now I've said almost the same thing...TWICE!!!
Sorry about that my dear...

Colleen, please let us know when the next World Music Festival takes place. I may want to come to that.

Kenju,
The World Music Festival known as Floyd Fest is scheduled for the weekend of July 28-30 this year. You can find out more about it by going to http://floydfest.com.

I remember Roanoke when I was little. It was a larger town but you could still ride the bus downtown in a couple of minutes and I would go with my granpa to the market. He would get fresh fish that we called "colefish" and I really loved that for breakfast. I remember the first time they used the new sirens on the police cars and I heard one in the middle of the night. It sounded like a spaceship was landing or at least what my imagination thought a spaceship should sound like. I was really scared. Roanoke is much bigger now, and has lost some of its charm. I think some of my mom's relatives lived in Floyd when she was growing up.

Thanks for the info, Colleen. I will let you know if I can work it out.

The town that I live in used to be the same sort..it's grown quite a bit. My brother and his wife live in Afton and absolutely LOVE it. I haven't been there to visit yet, but I'm shooting for a spring visit.

Sigh. (Sound of longing.)

Looks like a charming town.

OH we have a real barber shop here! 2 of them actually. And they even have a man who shines shoes! I love taking my son there. Its so funny to sit in there and listen to all the gentlemen talk and laugh. SOOOOOO Much better than the beauty salon. I hate going to the salon. My son hates it too..LOL However my girls hate going to the barber shop..

I can't believe Christmas is so close!

I believe this is where real Christmas celebrations are found.

This is the heart of America. How precious.

We've been getting more traffic lights recently (and county road expansions), but that smallness and slow pace is what I love about where we are, too.